Piston state: false

#1

fairly new to webcore ive made up a piston but the Piston state shows up as false and when i test it nothing happens

2) What is the expected behaviour?
when i get close to my home my porch light comes on and turns off after a set time

3) What is happening/not happening?
nothing happens

**4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston

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5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full
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#2

A green shot of the piston and logs will help us to help you.

#3

Two Things.

  1. In my experience, presence sensors are notoriously unreliable and sometimes the arrival/departure times can vary by several minutes. You may have better luck. But if you have not, I would write a piston to check your timing before relying on it in a piston.
  2. Be cautious with WAIT. You may need to set TCP to NEVER. You can search and read about WAIT and TCP. You will find many discussions and opinions about that subject in this forum.

In essence, if your piston trigger (your presence sensor) changes state during the 2 minute wait, that will halt the piston and start from the beginning again and run from top to bottom. That may not be a problem for you now. But later, in larger, more complex pistons, it can affect everything.

Edit : A better solution for your light might be a motion sensor.

#4

I’ve responded to this query at improbable length on Facebook.

The bottom line is that the ‘Test’ button isn’t really a test button, and the automatic piston state only makes any sense once you know what it is.

Update: Having said that, it seems like the webCoRE app is being used and there issues beyond ‘piston state’ and the ‘Test’ button (assuming the presence sensor doesn’t also have one).

#5

sorry thought i done it

#6

that one and on top of that when it jumps on the map, the piston gets triggered again and Gpss do jump…