My piston will not turn on Tp-Link switch

[JLG]

1) Give a description of the problem
I have a piston that checks the bathroom relative humidity and should turn on the bathroom fan whcih is controlled by a TP-Link WiFi wall switch. I have tried different combinations to make it work, but it would not turn on the fan even if RH rises well above my set limits. I now added a timer to make sure that the piston will execute a RH check, but still it will not turn the fan on.

2) What is the expected behaviour?
Turn on the bathroom fan when relative humidity rises above 60% and check Rh every 30 mins.

3) What is happening/not happening?
The piston seems to work programmatically speaking, but it will not turn on the fan in the real world.

**4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston![image|45x37]

5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full
7/10/2020, 11:22:48 AM +103ms
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+256ms ╚Event processed successfully (257ms)
7/10/2020, 11:22:43 AM +229ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594394563229 with a delay of 0ms
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+104ms ║Runtime (39717 bytes) successfully initialized in 47ms (v0.3.10f.20190822) (103ms)
+106ms ║╔Execution stage started
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+124ms ╚Event processed successfully (124ms)
7/10/2020, 11:22:41 AM +394ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594394561394 with a delay of 0ms
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+98ms ║Runtime (39716 bytes) successfully initialized in 43ms (v0.3.10f.20190822) (97ms)
+100ms ║╔Execution stage started
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+108ms ║Setting up scheduled job for Fri, Jul 10 2020 @ 11:38:27 AM EDT (in 946.085s)
+118ms ╚Event processed successfully (118ms)
7/10/2020, 11:11:50 AM +180ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393910177 with a delay of 2ms
+116ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 21ms > PS > 51ms > PE > 45ms > CE
+119ms ║Runtime (39717 bytes) successfully initialized in 51ms (v0.3.10f.20190822) (116ms)
+121ms ║╔Execution stage started
+197ms ║╚Execution stage complete. (77ms)
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+219ms ╚Event processed successfully (219ms)
7/10/2020, 11:09:26 AM +863ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393766860 with a delay of 2ms
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+257ms ╚Event processed successfully (257ms)
7/10/2020, 11:08:49 AM +191ms
+1ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393729188 with a delay of 3ms
+136ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 40ms > PS > 51ms > PE > 45ms > CE
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+228ms ╚Event processed successfully (228ms)
7/10/2020, 11:08:27 AM +190ms
+0ms ╔Starting piston… (v0.3.10f.20190822)
+295ms ║╔Subscribing to devices…
+376ms ║║Subscribing to MyBathroom fan…
+377ms ║╚Finished subscribing (92ms)
+411ms ║Comparison (integer) 63 is_greater_than_or_equal_to (integer) 60 = true (2ms)
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+427ms ║Setting up scheduled job for Fri, Jul 10 2020 @ 11:38:27 AM EDT (in 1799.97s)
+444ms ╚Piston successfully started (443ms)
7/10/2020, 11:07:02 AM +393ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393622389 with a delay of 2ms
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+209ms ╚Event processed successfully (210ms)
7/10/2020, 11:06:40 AM +548ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393600545 with a delay of 2ms
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+195ms ╚Event processed successfully (195ms)
7/10/2020, 11:05:59 AM +989ms
+1ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393559987 with a delay of 2ms
+112ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 17ms > PS > 52ms > PE > 43ms > CE
+115ms ║Runtime (39968 bytes) successfully initialized in 52ms (v0.3.10f.20190822) (112ms)
+116ms ║╔Execution stage started
+153ms ║╚Execution stage complete. (38ms)
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+165ms ╚Event processed successfully (165ms)
7/10/2020, 11:05:16 AM +355ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393516352 with a delay of 2ms
+243ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 20ms > PS > 183ms > PE > 40ms > CE
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+326ms ╚Event processed successfully (326ms)
7/10/2020, 11:05:12 AM +115ms
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+571ms ║╚Finished subscribing (215ms)
+634ms ║Comparison (integer) 63 is_greater_than_or_equal_to (integer) 60 = true (2ms)
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+664ms ║Setting up scheduled job for Fri, Jul 10 2020 @ 11:35:12 AM EDT (in 1799.936s)
+679ms ╚Piston successfully started (678ms)
7/10/2020, 11:03:08 AM +492ms
+0ms ╔Received event [MyHome].test = 1594393388489 with a delay of 2ms
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+126ms ║╔Execution stage started
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+202ms ║Setting up scheduled job for Fri, Jul 10 2020 @ 11:31:33 AM EDT (in 1704.646s)
+213ms ╚Event processed successfully (213ms)

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[orangebucket]

The logs just show the piston being restarted a couple of times and you hitting the Test button rather a lot. They don’t show what happens when the piston is run by the timer after 30 minutes.

Hitting the Test button would be useful if the timer wasn’t there.

I take it that you’ve established that webCoRE is capable of turning the fan on?

[WCmore]

The piston seems to work programmatically speaking, but it will not turn on the fan in the real world

If your Tp-Link switch is a new device, I would create a single command test piston to let you focus on that device.

In this case, pressing the Test button will send out that command.

(If memory serves me right, Tp-Link switches do not act like normal Smart switches)

[JLG]

OK. Thanks. Apparently, the piston started working in the first run after being created. Yes WCmore, I had tested it, but it did not work then. Thank you though.