Piezo Buzzer Not Working

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
Piezo buzzer not turning on every 3 seconds when Smartthings is armed away and the front door opens.

2) What is the expected behavior?
Piezo buzzer goes off every 3 seconds until Smartthings changes to Disarmed.

4) Post a Green Snapshot of the pistonimage

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Contact Sensor 4: Front Door (real)
Contact Sensor 11: Front Door (vitual)
Switch 5: Piezo Buzzer

#2

Hi @Mikeman786
I never used that buzzer but a couple of thigs about your piston

  • switch line 21 and line 19 (trigger first, condition later)
  • I am not familiar with REPEAT command but do you use NEVER CANCEL TASK? (maybe you don’t need to with REPEAT-UNTIL)
    but try to see if repeat has NEVER CANCEL TASK
  • and is the buzzer working with regular test within Webcore (simulated switch etc)
#3

Alright so I changed line 21 and line 19. I also changed the settings for the REPEAT to never cancel task but still having the same problem.

#4

is the buzzer working with another piston ??? (I am just trying to understand that it’s the piston design not the hardware or signal issue)

#5

I am curious why there is a question mark before each Wait

#6

The buzzer is working perfectly with my Exit Delay piston.

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#7

Not sure what is causing that but it’s also on my other pistons.

#8

are all your webcore smartapps up-to-date with the same version in IDE?

#9

How would I update it? I’ve searched for it before but didn’t have any luck updating it. I’m in IDE right now.

#10

do you remember if you installed it manually with copy/paste or using a github repository?

you can see what version they are in IDE by clicking on My SmartApps. You will see 4 webcore smartapps listed. If you click on the name of each one, the version should be near the top of the code. Your piston you posted shows the latest version but possible one of the apps is not the same version.

and check to see if all 4 are published. possible you updated and didn’t publish all of the updated ones.

#11

Thank you! I think I forgot to publish it so now the question marks are gone.

#12

I wrote a piston to do the same with SHM and a Konnected buzzer. I abandon the project because the latency of the internet was so variable that a consistent buzzer pattern could not be established. I had everything from working perfectly to no buzzing at all and everything in between.

#13

I agree with @Pantheon. I ended up using a long MP3 to simulate the steady beeping

#14

I had that problem as well but I was okay with it beeping inconsistently since it will still let my family members know that the alarm hasn’t been disarmed yet.

#15

How did you setup the MP3 to work with SHM?

#16

I send a command from webCoRE to an old tablet, which is connected to a nice speaker

#17

That sounds perfect for my setup. I have a tablet mounted on the wall so if I could get that to play the MP3 file it would work perfectly.

#18

Excellent!

I used Tasker for Android to receive the alert, and play the file. Not sure what method to use on iOS

#19

Oh okay. I was thinking about doing something like that but the Fire tablet I have doesn’t get notifications so I can’t get tasker to see the event happen.

#20

Did you try SmartThings Classic instead of their newest app?
I think that one works with the Fire tablet.