Scheduler and Polling quits after some minutes, hours, or days

[bago (John)]

I have 6 ecobee 3’s running for a month or more without a lost token.

I setup a hardware clock/scheduler. Everything works great.

Hardware Pollster (Schedule Fix?)

As we all know, scheduled tasks keep failing. Many have tried varies ideas of kick starting the schedules or events to keep them running. Some have suggested tying motions or temp sensors to apps since event driven automations work. The issue here is the events are sporadic (too many, too few, not reliable, need more cats). I built an Arduino project this summer that basically monitors the flow of water in a sump pump and also monitors radon (technically not that selective, other radioactive nuclides would also be picked up), but the point is one of the sensors fires every minute and another every five minutes. So I tied some apps that are more critical that they run periodically to the five minute attribute, and other than being off a few seconds here or there, it works flawlessly. I…

The only piece that I have not replicated is Smart Lighting, but since I don’t use it with any time based events, it hasn’t been worth it for me to catch the once in a great while failure of an off not trigger a few minutes after an on.