SmartThings Offline

[Dan_M]

Bill, is there a way to determine if a SmartThings device is offline? Thanks.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

Not currently but this is something I plan on adding. Could be the next month or 2 (not sure yet). Others have been asking for this from other integrations too. I would like to introduce a new capability that these can all share. Not entirely sure what it will be called yet. SmartThings has it as part of their healthCheck capability. Their attribute DeviceWatch-DeviceStatus reports the current offline/online status

Communication failure attribute to Vera devices

Add commFailure attribute as default to Vera devices. I have a dashboard which shows door contact sensor statuses i.e. whether door is open or closed. One door showed nicely closed all the time even in Vera that sensor was marked “Can’t detect device”. Rootcause for issues was empty battery in the sensor. So behaviour here is that contact status will stuck to a value even sensor cannot be reached and that is not good for making status display. There is however attribute “commFailure” which tell…

Philips Hue: device state "reachable" missing

HR-Designer V 3.17.0.0 Philips Hue Bridge BSB002, newest version I have replaced my Osram-Lightify devices with Philips-Hue devices. Thanks to the further development from HomeRemote to Devices technology, the changes are very minor for me. However, even the Philips devices do not indicate when they are not connected to the voltage. They then always have the status (“on”: true). Is it also possible to display the device status (“rechable”: false/true) under capapbilities of devices? This cou…

[Joachim_Dahl]

Is there something new? Thanks.