Rule Machine Version 1.7 Released

[bravenel (Bruce)]

Version 1.7.5 Released

This version addresses scheduling issues in SmartThings. See this post:

Rule Machine and ST Schedule Woes

Continuing the discussion from Scheduled Jobs Failing AGAIN: As many of you are aware, there are ongoing issues with scheduled events in SmartThings. While these are being worked on, some new issues have surfaced. One of these issues concerns the use of unschedule() by SmartApps. Beginning yesterday or the day before, users have also seen errors thrown that say “Undeclared Throwable Exception”. As far as I can tell, these are being thrown by unschedule(). For over a year, there has been discussion about how unschedule() is not reliable, and sometimes pays a high execution time penalty, so much so that some apps would be killed due to exceeding 20 seconds runtime. Pollster is one app that has had this problem. It became clear, that Rule Machine also was vulnerable to this failure. S…

Rule github: https://github.com/bravenel/Rule-Trigger/blob/master/smartapps/bravenel/rule.src/rule.groovy. Save and Publish for me.