sendNotificationsToContacts() FAILING

General Discussion
1

All my apps that have implemented the sendNotificationToContacts() call as per the on-line documentation have started to fail with errors on that call - this began something in the last 24-48 hours.

Is anyone else having issues this with this? The call us supposedly supported, and was working fine until this started happening.

2

Followup - the call seems to have been deleted or deprecated, as the error is groovy.lang.MissingMethodException for sendNotificationToContacts()

3

Can you show some code with context that you are using?

4

I tested this as Ask Alexa uses this functionality. It works fine for me for push and SMS messages.

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5

Sure - actually cut and past from the documentation for sendNotificationToContacts() - no changes, worked Monday, stopped yesterday. Also not working on SMH notifications, either, so it’s not just me…

//notifications to device, pushed if requested
def note(status, message, type){
log.debug “${status}: ${message}“
switches.notify(”${status}”, “${message}”)
if(notify)
{
if (notify.contains(‘Daily’) && type == “d”){
send(message)
}
if (notify.contains(‘Weather’) && type == “f”){
send(message)
}
if (notify.contains(‘Warnings’) && type == “w”){
send(message)
}
if (notify.contains(‘Moisture’) && type == “m”){
send(message)
}
}
}

def send(msg) {
if (location.contactBookEnabled && recipients) {
log.info ( “Sending ‘${msg}’ to selected contacts…” )
sendNotificationToContacts(msg, recipients, [event: true])
}
else {
log.info ( “Sending Push Notification ‘${msg}’…” )
sendPush( msg )
}
}

6

Here’s the log entry:

6:33:36 AM: error groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: script1471440815430227522555.sendNotificationToContacts() is applicable for argument types: (org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GStringImpl, physicalgraph.app.ContactProfileWrapper, java.util.LinkedHashMap) values: [SS2.52 New Odd manually started, watering in 1 minute:
Driveway Top Left: 3 x 5 min
Lower 40 Front Right: 2 x 30 min
Lower 40 Back Right: 2 x 30 min
, ...]
Possible solutions: sendNotificationToContacts(java.lang.String), sendNotificationToContacts(java.lang.String, java.lang.String), sendNotificationToContacts(java.lang.String, java.util.Collection), sendNotificationToContacts(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.Map), sendNotificationToContacts(java.lang.String, java.util.Collection, java.util.Map) @ line 1344

I wonder if the problem is something to do with [event: true] …

7

I don’t have the [event: true] in mine…may want to exclude that as that is the only thing different than in my code.

8

Does your contact input have multiple: false? I think that might be causing the issue. Try removing it and let me know if the error goes away.

I encourage you to open a ticket as well; looks like a bug.

9

I sent this to support before posting here, but no response from them yet.

The code does not specifically define nultiple:false -

section("Push Notifications") {
        input (name: "notify", type: "enum", title: "Select what push notifications to receive.", required: false, multiple: true,
        metadata: [values: ['Warnings', 'Daily', 'Weekly', 'Weather', 'Moisture']])
        input("recipients", "contact", title: "Send push notifications to", required: false)
}

The documentation says that the contact list can be either a string or a collection - that said, I do have only 1 contact specified in the SmartApp configuration…:

Signature:
void sendNotificationToContacts(String message, String contact, Map options=[:])

void sendNotificationToContacts(String message, Collection contacts, Map options=[:])

Parameters:
String message - the message to send

String contact - the contact to send the notification to. Typically set through the contact input type.

Collection contacts - the collection of contacts to send the notification to. Typically set through the contact input type.

Map options (optional) - a map of additional parameters. The valid parameter is [event: boolean] to specify if the message should be displayed in the Notifications feed. Defaults to true (message will be displayed in the Notifications feed).

10

You’re not doing anything wrong, this looks like a bug.

I’ve created a bug in our internal tracking system and forwarded this on to engineers as well.

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11

Adding “, multiple: true” to the settings for recipients solves the problem…was not required before…

12

FWIW, the documentation example for sendNotificationToContacts() should be updaed to include multiple:true in the settings. The bug is real (not accepting a string, requiring a Collection), but the example doesn’t make it clear that multiple: true needs to be defined.

Thanks, Jim!

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14

Nice to see this bug still exists and the docs haven’t been updated… 15 months later…

15

Yep, I got burned by that issue a few weeks ago when adding Contacts to my SmartApp.