getSubscribedDeviceById error

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In the following code the log.debug works, but attempting to set the same data into a field fails

void handlerControlTemp(evt) 
	{
	def deviceId = evt.getDeviceId()
	log.debug getSubscribedDeviceById(deviceId).currentValue("thermostatMode")
	def deviceMode = getSubscribedDeviceById(deviceId).currentValue("thermostatMode")

Hopefully someone smarter than me can let me how to fix this

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@bravenel @mike.maxwell

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This code works for me, so not sure what the problem is.

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Can't reproduce...

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Appreciate you both testing that code and the very quick responses.

FWIW I'm on a C-4 with 2.3.2.135

I also found this workaound vs setting a field to the value and then testing it.

if (getSubscribedDeviceById(deviceId).currentValue("thermostatMode") != 'dry')
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You don’t have to do all of this. evt.device is the device wrapper.

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Big Thank You! The following works.
def deviceMode = evt.device.currentValue("thermostatMode")

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So would

evt.device.currentThermostatMode

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evt.device.currentThermostatMode has to be more efficient than
evt.device.currentValue("thermostatMode") However, I can't find documentation on it or other methods that exist for a thermostat. I remember using this method or something similar a long time ago on another platform, but that was so many brain cells ago.

I did find documentation for Capabilites that includes Methods, but have no idea how to get that data for a device.

I would appreciate a link to, or some code, that will get the methods for a device.

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Whenever you have a device attribute that you might use with device.currentValue("attributeName"), you can also use device.currentAttributeName to mean the same thing -- in apps. Notice the capitalization of the first letter of the attribute name in the second form.

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