Problem with Refresh Custom Action

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@bravenel

This is not related to the other topic where you posted it. That topic was specific to setting variables to device attributes.

My apology, thanks for moving to a new topic.

@bravenel

Please show the right side of the device page for one of the Ring Range Extender devices, where it shows the device states.

Not sure what you want here, but here in successive screenshots is the full device page for one of the 6 devices. All are similar.

@bravenel

Also, what driver are these using?

These happen to be using Denny Page’s (@dennypage’s) driver found here:

[RELEASE] Ring Alarm Range Extender Gen2 driver

I have released a driver for the Ring Alarm Range Extender 2nd Generation. I know, yet another Ring Range Extender driver... I didn't start out to write a full driver, but I needed the range test function for placement testing and the driver grew out of that. In addition to the functions of the built-in driver (device version information, serial number, etc.), this driver provides a tunable heartbeat interval, range and power test functions, and fault logging. Also, the refresh …

I had been using the built-in driver, but refresh hasn’t worked on that driver for over a year. I turned in a couple of identical PM bug reports to Bryan Copeland (@bcopeland ) (an initial one and then a follow-up inquiry many months later), who said he would take a look at it but apparently never did. I realize that he and all of you have been very busy on more important things, so I switched to Denny Page’s driver because the refresh capability works in Denny Page’s driver. I don’t need or use any of the additional features in Denny Page’s driver, but I do need the refresh capability in order to restore the mains/battery power source status of the Ring Extender after a power fail comeback because the hub, being shut down, misses the “return to mains” event of the Ring Extenders.

@bravenel

I'm assuming these devices have capability Refresh, correct?

metadata
{
    definition (
        name: "Ring Alarm Range Extender gen2", namespace: "cococafe", author: "Denny Page"
    )
    {
        capability "Configuration"
        capability "Refresh"
        capability "Battery"
        capability "PowerSource"

@bravenel

I don't know why your action is broken, but why don't you delete it, and recreate it?

If you will re-read my problem statement, I indicated that not only would the action become broken if any attempt was made to edit it, but also that no new action with refresh could be created, even in a new rule with an attempt to create such an action.

I can’t explain why it seems to work for you. I will try switching the devices to the built-in driver, see if I can create a refresh action with that driver.