[RELEASE CANDIDATE] CoRE (Community's own Rule Engine)

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Hi @ady624 - I ran into a couple of issues with CoRE and the ZWN-SC7 Enerwave 7 Button Scene Controller (please see ZWN-SC7 Enerwave 7 Button Scene Controller for more info on this controller). I’m trying to set up a rule so that if a button is pressed then it does something (send a sms, or turn on a virtual switch - doesn’t matter right now as nothing is working).

There are two issues:

  1. I create a basic Piston. For Add A Condition I pick Capability->Button. For the Button list I select my ZWN-SC7 Enerwave device (which is also the only such device I have). Now here is the first issue - when I click Buttons (to select which button I want to make the rule on) it only shows me Buttons #1, #2, #3, and #4. However this is a 7 button controller.

  2. Despite the above issue I still tried to see if I could get it to work with one of the 4 buttons. I choose Button #1. Comparison I set to IS. Value I set to Pushed. For my THEN section I tell it to send me a SMS just so I can check it. However it never sends the SMS. I also tried having it switch on one of my virtual switches, but nothing happens in that case either (however if I manually flip the virtual switch in my list of Things then the desired action that I want the Piston to make happen, happens fine).

I’m not sure if it matters, but I’m using CoRE v0.1.11c.20160716. I know that’s quite old, but its been working great for me so I’ve had little reason to want to mess with it, up until now of course. If you saw that you want me to try with the latest version of CoRE I am happy to - but please tell me, in that case will it still preserve all my existing Pistons or will they get destroyed and I will have to recreate them?

All this said, there is a Smart App that this lighting controller has that I have self-published. That does recognize all 7 buttons, and it also works exactly as expected. However I really want to use CoRE to trigger the actions on button pushes, since it is so much more flexible and I want to do more with it.

I’d greatly appreciate it if you can give me some things to try to troubleshoot this or ideas on what may be wrong. Thank you.

As a side note and totally unrelated - for the button “Held” action - is there a way to define the duration that a button must be held before it is considered held and not pressed, or is this value baked into SmartThings and not configurable.