Ron
July 8, 2015, 7:56pm
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@april Might as well merge these as well
Don’t feel like this belongs in Devices & integration category but don’t see any categories good for asking about issues with ST. Anyway I have to zxt-120 ir sender’s which act like thermostats and report temp. The polling which was working fine up until Tuesday 2.24.15 isn’t working correctly anymore. One device was last polled 26 hours ago and the other was polled 6 hours ago.
Is anyone else having issues with polling ?
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I have created a custom Device Type and specified the capability “Polling”. Also wrote a poll() method. But the problem is that it is never called. When I manually refresh, it is working and the value is updating. I checked the log also and nothing is there, if I manually refresh the log is coming.
I saw couple of posting regarding this here but no concrete answer is given, could some help me to figure out the issue?
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I have a device handler with polling capability. However, it looks like the poll() command is never being called. Ideally, I expect it to be called every few minutes.
Is this a known problem?
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A question for SmartThings developers. I wrote a device type that uses poll() to update its status. What I see from the logs is that poll() is being called on average 4 times per hour. But the poling intervals are not evenly spaced, i.e. instead of regular 15-minute polling intervals I see poll() being called at 00, 20, 30 and 50 minutes. For example: 7:00PM, 7:20PM, 7:30PM, 7:50PM, 8:00PM, etc. I could understand if ST tried to randomize polling schedule to avoid peak loads, but the polling times are always the same, they just play this weird syncopated rhythm. Is this by design?
I am sure there are more but it has still never been resolved by support.
I started a new thread in the hopes that we could get rid of the noise and just have support realize these two issue exist and should really be addressed.
Also this merge lost the fact that I was addressing Polling AND Scheduling, not just scheduling.