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

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512

There’s an IFTTT integration you might want to check out. Call a piston via IFTTT maker.

513

Thank you for your reply eibyer, but my question is exactly around this: what is the URL i should trigger in order to invoke a pistol ?

in CoRe i can set IFTTT as a trigger, and to define a value in it (i did “Lights_Off”). but how i send an IFTTT event with this value ?

thank you.

514

Here’s the instruction straight from the dev :slight_smile:

Here’s one of my test pistons.

IF
● IFTTT event 'IFTTT_Call_Test' was executed
When true...
Using location...
► Send Push notification 'IFTTT_Call_Test was called from an IFTTT URL'

This was called from URL:
https://graph.api.smartthings.com/api/token/secret_stuff/smartapps/installations/secret_stuff/ifttt/IFTTT_Call_Test

515

Put them all in one action. Actions start at the same time, so your waits are overlapping.

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516

Yes, I have , and actualy, it worked… then I started adding more, just one at a time, and it stopped working for a few “THEN”'s.

I’m confused.

517

I am sorry for my ignorance in the matter, but how do you do one action, If I select all switches the house will just go all on and all off or dim, or something ,

or I am not understanding what an action is?

is that “Control location mode”? and then execure 1 piston at time for example?

thanks again

518

Here’s a piston with three actions, the first two are independent and have restrictions on when they act, both under the same rule set though. The third has a wait then action, notice in the same gray area. Lots of first time CoRE users will put the wait and action separate, but that doesn’t work. The actual action portion is entered under either the Then, Else, or If True/If False sections. Or variations there of under the different Piston types.

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519

Well, then try to account for the time each action takes. The first action in the list does not delay the second, so if you want them to “follow” each other, keep a running counter in mind and add that wait to each start of each action.

Using this...
   Wait 4 minutes
   Do this

Using that...
   Wait 4+5 minutes
   Do that

Using other
   Wait 9+3 minutes
   Do other

And so on, you get the idea. You’ll enter 9 instead of 4+5, I broke it down so you can see it.

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520

@ady624 I know RC is more meant for bug fixes and working on usability as well I know we are hitting the app size limit for smart things.

As I was working on a piston I was thinking of something that would be awesome to add to the WAIT command.

Right now WAIT can only delay on time, could device state changing to be added to WAIT? (state changes being what is the filled dark circle)

If
    Motion changes to active
        Then
            Turn Light on
            Wait until Motion changes to Inactive
            Turn Light off

Is that possible?

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521

What about “Wait for piston state change” which is what motion changes to inactive is.

522

Anyone using the Plex Home Theatre Manager SmartApp with this? (https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-plex-home-theatre-manager-smartapp)

I’m trying to setup a piston that will only dim lights when a Plex HT Manager notes that “playbackType” is movie.

523

I’m not sure if this is the place for feature requests? I’d like a few additional action types for RBGW lights.

Fade to color: makes a nice transition from the current color to one picked in the list

Fade to random color: like above, but with the ability to select multiple colours in the list for the action to pick randomly from.

I know that the color selector has “random” as the first choice, but I’d much rather have it select from a subset of the available colours.

CoRE is awesome! It’s the only app I use now outside connectors to other systems such as Hue.

524

Hello all. I’m running into an error message with a piston involving a comparision of a time variable with the current date time. To simplify the issue, I created a simple piston that can demonstrate the error. I’m running the latest 12/20 build of CoRE. When the problem occurs, the only thing I can do to correct it is to delete and recreate the piston from scratch.

  1. My piston:

  2. Screenshot of where I am trying to click to modify the date comparison when the error occurs:

  3. Screenshot of error message

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I have tried just about everything I can think of to make this work including clearing app data, cache, reinstalling smart things app, recreating piston in another way, generating new Client Secret, Client ID without success. Any help would be greatly apprerceated.

I’ve been using Smart Things for about 2 weeks, and cant thank the community enough for such an awesome SmartApp.

525

Frequent need to rebuild CoRE pistons - anyone else? I’ve had to rebuild 2-3 in the past week alone. These are typically scheduled things that aren’t firing when they’re supposed to (sunset/sunrise sorts of things).

I can go in and rebuild and they’ll fire immediately. Once I turned on another set of lights and that woke them up.

Any ideas? Sure, I can rebuild them every other day, but that kinda defeats the purpose of automation.

526

I also have to do this. I am not sure why. It seems like every week I have 3-4 pistons that stop working that need rebuilt.

527

@eric182

Did you just recreate your pistons from the original CORE instance into your additional CORE instances? Or is there an easier way :slight_smile: ?

thanks!

528

They have to be recreated. there is no easy way to “copy” them yet.

529

copy that… thanks

530

Can someone tell me when the latest CoRE update was put out? I think it’s 11-21-16. Is this correct? Is there a link that keeps the latest versions listed for us ?

Thanks!

531

Here is the github link for the code.