Ring Doorbell Light Activity

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
Piston is not executing fully as expected

2) What is the expected behavior?
Light should brighten and dim back after wait period.

3) What is happening/not happening?
Light is brightening but not dimming back

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

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5) Attach any logs (From ST IDE and by turning logging level to Full)

Hi Guys,

So I created a piston to interact with a few different lights and my ring doorbell.

  • If my ring detects motion and the outdoor lights are already on, I want to increase the brightness for a bit and then turn back down.

  • If the ring button is pushed, I want to increase the brightness for a bit longer and then turn back down.

  • If the lights are off and between sunset and sunrise, I want to turn them on and then turn back off after a certain wait. I’m also turning on an inside light.

I tried this out last night and the brightness of the light does increase to 100% on motion, but it never turns back down. The brightness stays at 100%.

I found this in the piston log: Piston waited at a semaphore for 10085ms

My guess is that because the ring either detects motion again, or changes to an inactive / no motion state while in the wait period, its causing the issue?

Is this true or does anyone have any suggestion to make this work better?

Thanks!

#2

You have to add a “Never Cancel” policy for each of the “with” statements. What is occurring is that by the time the wait occurs the piston if statement changes to inactive and cancels the dim. Edit this piston and select the "with statement, and for the “Task Cancellation Policy” set it to “Never”. Do for each and that should fix the issue.

#3

Ah I see it. I made the change and I’ll test it out tonight.

Thank you for the info. Such a powerful tool.