ST to Hubitat Piston Question

#1

I made the jump from ST to Hubitat earlier this week. I finally have everything up and running but did have a question about 1 particular shared Piston I found a while back and had running on ST. It monitored a Device to see if it was online or not, whether it was a dead battery or the tricky Aqara Sensors that fall off occasionally. The field it was checking was Status ($status) a field I could also see in the IDE. However in Hubitat I do not see a field called Status so I’m concerned it will not work properly.

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#2

I’m not aware Hubitat device status works the same as ST, but it likely is a question to ask in the Hubitat forum and we can include victor on it there (one of the HE developers).

#3

Thanks, I’ll go post it on over there.

#4

For what it’s worth, the $status variable reports as ACTIVE or INACTIVE in the HE version of webcore. I believe it is calculated based on the devices last activity (within 24 hours) but that is just my assumption based on what I see.

I use a similar piston that notifies me of inactive devices…quick test of the device would reveal if it is truly offline