App and driver porting to Hubitat

[arnb]

driver sendEvent difference
In a driver after issuing a sendEvent for an attribute,

sendEvent(name: "armMode", value: armMode)

then subsequently in the same event issuing a

device.currentState("armMode")

the value of the attribute at the beginning of the event is returned, not the current actual value as done in ST

The solution

@chuck.schwer

Yes, we cache these values for performance sake. typically you never need to access the value that you just sent.. ie in your example you are asking for the armMode but you just set the armMode 2 lines above.

If you really want to do this, or you need the non-cached current value, pass true as the second parameter:

def devarmMode = device.currentValue("armMode", true)
def devarmState = device.currentState("armMode", true)

The second parameter is "skip cache"