1) Give a description of the problem
Way to determine SmartBulb powered off
2) What is the expected behavior?
Create an alert/SMS if Smartbulb power is cut to it
3) What is happening/not happening?
If a wall switch that powers a Smartbulb is turned off the lights will never come on aith automation. I want to track if a Smart Bulb has lost power.
4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston
5) Attach any logs (From ST IDE and by turning logging level to Full)
Try this piston. It uses the $status flag. The device will have to be disconnected for a while before ST recognizes it as non-responsive.
Thanks… how does that execute? It says it’s not subscribed to anything and won’t run by itself… am I missing something?
I have a separate timer piston that calls it every 2 hours. Or you can click on the tile…
You could put a timer statement at the start of the piston, but that won’t allow it to run when you click on the tile. Here’s the part of the timer piston:
