thanks @WCmore and @ike2018 for replay and help
I’ll need to play with it for months until I am able to figure out loops 
I am using wyze open/close switch as ST virtual switch /indicator for my garage door
Color bulb sounds simple but I am trying to justify my Sonos purchase 
ps
when I “Test” the piston nothing happens 
Often, loops tends to bog down the network, so I try to avoid them whenever possible.
In my house, I actually use both voice alerts and the color bulb indicator.
(with the light flashing 1 second before the voice alert)
This works nicely because when I see the light change, I can stop making noise in time to easily hear the verbal alert.
In this piston, Test won’t do anything.
You’ll have to actually do the thing that is written as your trigger.
(real life testing)
When testing, you can lower the time a bit to make testing quicker.
(temporarily drop it to 30 seconds)
Here is an idea,
IF garage door changes to OPEN
With Sonos (Never Cancel Task)
WAIT 5 minutes
Speak text “bla bla”
IF garage door changes to CLOSE
Cancel Pending Tasks
And with sonos, I have 4 of them:)) and finally I justified the purchase like this,
“F…it, i wanted them and now I have them”
If you’re looking to monitor multiple contacts, the example piston Door Left Open Reminder - Configurable by Individual Contact can monitor multiple doors and windows and send an alert/reminder via SMS. It can (and I’ve done it with my piston at home) easily be modified to send the alert message to your Sonos speakers instead of (or in addition to) those SMS alerts.
Please note, however, that as @WCmore points out, webCoRE’s ‘Speak and Resume’ command is, at best, flaky with Sonos. It will sometimes restart the station or playlist, but more often than not it won’t. And when it does resume, it doesn’t resume exactly where the station or playlist left off. But your experience may be different.
Like many Sonos users with multiple Sonos devices (I’m up to 10, and will be adding the portable as soon as it’s released 
), I’ve had much greater success using jishi’s HTTP API Bridge for Sonos, installed on a raspberryPi. But that’s a more complex solution best set aside for now, particularly if you have no coding experience.
I’d say it’s relatively straightforward, but that probably depends on one’s relative level of expertise. If you have some general or even specific questions, I can try to answer them, although maybe we should move it to another thread. There are others here who probably know a lot more who might be better to write a tutorial.
Using the jishi’s HTTP API Bridge in combination with webCoRE can really give you a lot more control of your system, particularly in terms of managing groups. Other features (like Speak and Resume are also much more reliable.
I did slight change and I am not sure if I did it right,
the last part… cancel pending tasks 
I am starting to enjoy this
I’ll be checking the example piston for sure
Hopefully by next summer I’ll be able to understand all terminology
One more thing,
How do I find/edit my running pistons
I only see Paused pistons?
Thank you
All of your pistons will be visible, and editable from your Dashboard.
(with the paused pistons at the bottom)
Side Note:
Most users only need one instance of webCoRE, but if you created more than one, you can switch between them in the top left drop-down menu.
You can find it here:
And after changes it’s always best to upload the NEW piston so people can understand better what direction your piston is going.
yeah I think I did “Cancel task on condition state” line 29
I can’t click/see Uncategorized Pistons, is it my browser? (Safari)
And stay away from ELSE statements. (At least for now)
Instead use this,
create a seperate (oin the same piston ofcourse) IF BLOCK
If garage sensor changes to OFF
Then
Cancel all pending tasks.
Btw, what is this sensor? Is this an open/close sensor or something else?
Because with open close sensors, the command is CHANGES to OPEN or CLOSED
And so far this piston won’t play the notification again and again. But since you said this is your first piston, I’d recommend get this part done first and then we’ll move on to message repeating every 5 minutes. (ps: consider your neighbors as well LOL)
“I can’t click/see Uncategorized Pistons”
Go to settings in webCoRE and then categories. Make sure that your Uncategorized category is set to show Details and not Hidden
I use wyze open/close sensor (over iftt) as virtual switch on my ST hub
I changed the ELSE statement…
Not sure if line 31 is correct, then-with sosnos? -do cancel all pending tasks…
I tried the settings before but it looks I never clicked apply
Thank you!
It should be LOCATION and cancel tasks (if you dont select any device, it’s location)
And about IFTTT why are you not using the sensors in webcore directly? can’t you see them in WC?
Try this but I haven’t tested FYI.
I’m not sure if it will wait a minute and then re-execute or it will constantly execute.
(I use loops very rarely. I have over 100 active pistons and just one of them uses a loop)
Hello everyone!
This sounds like an issue that some of us have been seeing with the latest update to 822.
Please see the following:
For me, it’s the WAIT command that is interfering with anything else in the piston.
