Smart Weather Tile Refresh

Devices & Integrations
#1

For the longest time I had a virtual weather tile with pollster refreshing it every 10 minutes.
Since the platform upgrade Pollster no longer seems to be working.

I go and setup a new weather tile using Smart Weather Tile but it doesn’t refresh and pollster won’t even see the device tile to see if I can get back to refreshing every 10 minutes.

This is a very critical thing as many of my triggers at set with Lux from my personal weather station.

Can anyone help get me back to something that works?

#2

See below.

#3

The Sunrise/Sunset failed for me today as well. Frustrating. Every time I hear of platform maintenance I shutter thinking what is the next thing to break.

#4

my weather tile refresh stopped working until I went into SmartApps, selected the app, hit Done and then it started working again… It shouldn’t have to be like this…

#5

Tried that. It use to work but as of noon my time it stopped working. I even went as far a uninstall and reinstall.

I am not sure if it is pollster or some problem with the time call.

#6

My correction…I meant to say it shouldn’t be like this every time there’s a platform update. I just did mine after seeing this post, we’ll see how long it lasts…

#7

Same thing here. Platform upgrade caused it to stop. I went in and gave it a kick and it ran for about a day then stopped. Now it won’t run at all. I really need to get it fixed because so much of my setup revolves around LUX and Temperature.

#8

I contacted support on this. It seems all my apps that are supposed to turn lights off after so many minutes are also failing.

#9

As of 9PM EST timed events are working again. Pollster is working again. Not sure for how long. Very frustrating.

#10

Something I did when I was having trouble with my weather tile updating was create a smart app that refreshed it. Then just stuck that on a virtual button and triggered it on mode change. Wasn’t perfect, but it kept things more up to date. Now that things have been working, I still have kept that in place, just in case.

In case it helps: https://github.com/thale57/SmartThingsPublic/blob/master/smartapps/thale/manual-weather-refresh.src/manual-weather-refresh.groovy

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#11

Loose operation is great! I like this technique. Low impact on network.

Updating junk tiles every 1,5,10,60 minutes for rare use, may just kill this network. Aeon motions devicetype is horrible. 4 or more motion reports in one minute. Totally redundant.

Maybe the cloud outages are defacto load-management.