I Broke webCoRE!

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
I can’t get my piston to pause or open for editing.

2) What is the expected behavior?
(PUT YOUR INFO HERE)

3) What is happening/not happening?
I created a piston that set a string of text as the Piston State. I forgot to blank out the text at the beginning of each piston run, so now the piston state is pages and pages long… and I can’t get it to pause or load for me to fix it.

Is there any backdoor into these things where it can be shut down and the Piston State cleared so it can be fixed?

Other pistons can still be loaded or paused… it’s just this one that I can’t get into.

I’ve sent a PM to @ady264 but I have no idea what time it is where he lives or how inundated he might be with messages.

Thanks in advance for any help!!

#2

Go into the SmartThings SmartApp for webCoRE, Settings, and try “Clean up and rebuild data cache”

#3

I tried that, no dice. :frowning:

Thanks for the quick reply! Any other ideas?

#4

What about creating another webCoRE instance, and use the Move Piston option to move that piston to the new instance, then delete that instance?

#5

pause the piston from dashboard by clicking on the vertical dots on the right edge of the page.

#6

That sounds worth trying. Where do I create that? If I go to settings and select “create another instance” I seem to keep getting options to register a browser, not another instance of webCoRE.

#7

It says pausing piston for a while, but the piston never gets grayed out and moves to the “paused pistons” section.

#8

try a couple more times … sometimes it takes a while

does the piston use any devices?

#9

I still am… I keep trying to load it or pause it. So far about a dozen times each and no luck.

#10

dont try to load it … just repeat pause.

#11

Ok, I’ll try doing that a few times and see what happens. Thanks!

#12

does the piston use any device?

#13

It doesn’t operate any devices. It reads the on/off state and level of 8 or 9 dimmer switches though.

#14

find one of those devices in things from the ST app and select the device. then go to smartapps tab. find the piston in the list of apps and click on. scroll down and clear all data.

then back out and try viewing the piston in dashboard.

#15

I’ve tried pausing 10x so far… nothing different. It says “pausing piston” for about 5 seconds and the square tiles spin in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, but when both of those fade away the piston is still not paused.

#16

see post above yours.

#17

Just tried that and got this error. I’ll try some other devices.

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#18

Clear all data (including variables) nailed it… man, do I owe you one!!

#19

Here is the piston you helped me recover. It’s amazing what a difference a simple “string State = ;” can make.

#20

nice gauges!

the piston draws all the tiles every time any of the device switch or level changes? that would make it kind of a resource hog. :smiley: