Querying a State/Status

Developer Programs Writing SmartApps
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Hey All,

Starting to get the hang of this but am once again stuck.

I have a smartApp triggered on a presence sensor that sets the states of various devices when the event is “not present”. During that event I also want to check if the garage door (SmartSense Multi) is open at the time of this presence sensor event, and if so, send me a notification.

Not seeing a way to do this without an event handler for the multisensor, which of course triggers whenever the door is opened or closed.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Scott in Pollock

2

Nevermind… figured it out.

3

You should post the solution you found because others may have the same issue . :smile:

4

Fair enough. The solution was to define the following and call it from within the presence sensor event handler:

def checkGarage(evt) {
def latestValue = multisensor.latestValue("status")
}

@Ben I am still looking for some kind of command/function reference. Take for instance setLocationMode(). How would a newbie even know this exists?

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Hoping some of the older reference documents might help.

These are available from here.