How do I call App.RefreshDevice on a schedule?

[akadbl (Daniel B Long)]

I’m using the Hubitat built-in integration and occasionally, perhaps upon reboot of the hub, the websocket gets stuck and a RefreshDevice seems to unstick it so I’d like to perform an App.RefreshDevice(“Hubitat”) every few hours, say, without requiring any human input on the HR tablets I have mounted all over the house.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Dan

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

You can probably use Idle Events to automatically refresh your Hubitat connection. Although that was originally intended for screensaver type things there’s really no reason you couldn’t use it to refresh your connection.

Idle Events in 3.10.0

In a few recent posts I’ve mentioned plans to add Idle events. The day has arrived! There have been some discussions about screensavers & automated closing of pages. None of that was possible without having a way to detect user inactivity. Now you can monitor this by handling Idle events & configuring the IdleTimeout in MainPage.xaml IdleTimeout is the period of inactivity before the Idle event is raised. The value is in seconds & defaults to 60. The status of application idle is available th…

[akadbl (Daniel B Long)]

Thanks. I set up an Idle Event as suggested but that works only once. The event triggers after the timeout but App.IsIdle stays True even after the event is triggered. Is there a way to restart the idle countdown (other than interacting with the screen)? From your feature announcement, I thought maybe I could use OpenPage in the event actions to restart the countdown but it gives “Specified method is not supported” error. I also tried pushing another page and popping back to the MainPage. That didn’t cause an error but it also didn’t restart the countdown. I also tried manually setting IsIdle to False but that didn’t restart the countdown either. Thoughts?