How can I disable a piston timer from the switch itself?

#21

I’m not sure that I follow…

#22

I mean if the “changes to switches or levels” isn’t an option for cancelling your pistons tasks… we can do it with a SmartThings routine, or if you have a dashboard set up, a tile on your webCoRE dashboard.

Would either of those work for you?

#23

Unfortunately, not really. None of those really have a high wife acceptance factor. I was really hoping it could be done from the switch. Of course, it can but I have to have a piston for every switch, which doesn’t have a high @flyize acceptance factor. :smiley:

However, I may just have to live with it.

#24

Ha, I feel your pain on both counts. I keep getting the “how is using my phone and digging through menus better than flipping a simple switch?” speech. Lol

#25

Is this still an issue? I am pretty sure you can have variables inside [dev:attr] constructs and then use those inside the previousAge() function, but I can double check and fix it if not working as expected.

#26

@ady624 It seems it was just a syntax problem with capitalisation of the S for the attribute… but only for device variables, not device names.

[device name : switch] - works
[device name : Switch] - works
[variable name : switch] - works
[variable name : Switch] - does not work

Overall user question wasn’t resolved though… $currentEventDevice does not work across parallelism, there can only be one $currentEventDevice, not multiple in parallel

#27

I’ll look into the capital letters tonight - easy fix I guess :smiley:

#28

Thanks boss

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#29

There are still some challenges with cancelling a fade set in motion by a piston, too. I don’t necessarily think it’s a “bug” but it would definitely be an enhancement if there was an easier way to cancel a fade from within a piston (specifically if a switch is used on one of the lights that are part of the fade command).

#30

Thanks!

Can I assume that getting $currentEventDevice to work across parallelism is a much more difficult task?

#31

try this … the timer is set to 30 secs for now … change it as you see fit:

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#32

I’m having real trouble figuring out how this amazing looking piston works, but it worked! The only thing I haven’t tried is using it with multiple lights at once, but I think I see some sort of array in there, so I assume you have accounted for that.

WOW thanks!

#33

btw, once you have confirmed its working, remove the log statement for better efficiency.

#34

Will do. Thanks again. This is awesome.