Blank System Variables and "Was" Conditions Not Working

michicago · 2017-11-25 16:41:25 UTC

1) Give a description of the problem
I’m trying to get a variable to update with the current time when my garage door opens or closes. Instead, the variable updates every time the piston runs because the variable $currentEventAttribute (and every variable like it) are always null.

I’ve tried writing this as “if Contact Sensor 1’s contact changed within the last 1 minute” as an alternate, but that evaluates as false every time too.

Is there something in webCoRE I need to enable to start using these variables? They seem very helpful in cutting down on nested IF’s and variables if I could get them to work.

2) What is the expected behavior?
When this piston is executed by a change in Contact Sensor 1 contact, update Timestamp.

3) What is happening/not happening?
Timestamp is updating every time the piston runs.
4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston

5) Attach any logs (From ST IDE and by turning logging level to Full)
(PASTE YOUR LOGS HERE BETWEEN THE MARKS)

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c1arkbar · 2017-11-25 18:32:31 UTC

Logs will be very helpful in this situation. You could also try logging to console the $currentEventAttribute so you can see what it is exactly posting while you gather logs.

michicago · 2017-11-25 18:54:52 UTC

Thanks! I’ll pull some logs together for this later today - I just thought maybe there was a known step to take in the configuration of webCoRe that I overlooked to make these work.

michicago · 2017-11-25 18:57:39 UTC

I forgot I still had this running without edits, so I have some activity from just now… both from Temperature change [should not affect Timestamp variable] and garage door open/close [should affect Timestamp variable].

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michicago · 2017-11-25 19:06:10 UTC

Ugh, I think I just figured it out. The $currentEventAttribute is ‘contact’. But selecting the physical device [Contact Sensor : Contact] actually gives its value… ‘closed’ instead. It’s looking for ‘contact’ which I’ll just have to put in as a string to make this work.

Is there a way you know if to select an attribute from a list or is it best just to go with manually typing out the string?

eibyer · 2017-11-25 19:35:49 UTC

Maybe it’s the device handler giving out the wrong info (Contact vs contact), probably just go with manually typing it unless you’re comfortable digging into device handler code