I have a shade controlled via an RF remote that is not compatible with Hubitat, so I paired it with a Bond Bride which is linked to my Hubitat. The shade does not always pick up the RF signal from Bond, so I wrote a rule to repeat the command, and settled on 6 repeats to get the signal to the shade >99% of the time.
However the heading for the rule indicates, in the log heading, that it is continuing to repeat. That looks like this:
Per the detailed log entries, the rule is not still repeating...it stopped 12+ hours ago.
My other rules are written the same but they don't do this.
What would cause this one to indicate it is repeating?
That's a UI artifact. When a log entry for a device, variable or app is first made, it picks up the label for it that exists at that moment. After that it is static on that page, even if the label of the app changes. The headings are static, even while the logs below are flowing.
Thanks. Not exactly sure what that means. I gather that means it is not related to the way I wrote the rule or any actual repeating going on, but rather something to do with either the way HE is displaying the data or when HE picks up the data to display?
If I log out of HE and log back in, it still shows that way for this rule.
If I go into the rule and resave then refresh the page, it goes away, but it shows up for another similar rule...
Is there anything I can do to avoid this occuring? Am I correct that this is the same way it appears if the rule actually does get stuck in a repating loop?
Please provide more context, a larger image of the screenshot you showed above. What page of the UI is this on?
I log into my Hubitat, and go to "Logs" on the left.
At the top of that page is a section labeled "Apps and devices" and then there is a "paragraph" listing devices and apps (technically individual rules within apps).
This particular listing is a specific Rule Machine (the app) rule.
As I just now logged in to write this reply, this rule again has "(repeating)" in orange after it, however it is not currently repeating. If I click on the rule, the log filters entries related only to that rule, and I get the following:
Another repeating rule, written in exactly the same format, which ran and completed after this one, does not have the "(Repeating)" after it. Also, if I click on the devices associated with this rule, I can confirm the log contains no entries indicating anything is repeating this rule.
OK, thanks. This is all explained in my post above. You are seeing the UI artifacts of the fact that the log headings are static, and keep whatever name they first had. Your rule first log while it was repeating, so it says repeating. That is static text that you are interpreting as if it is dynamic text. It means nothing more than what I explained before.
Thank you. Appreciate the expanded explanation - since I don't speak "programming",
I understand this latest explanation much better.
The one part of this that I still don't understand is
a. Why does the "(Repeating)" text temporarily go away if I resave the rule, but then come back the next time I log on?
b. Why does the "(Repeating)" text randomly appear and disappear on other repeating rules (not associated with when the rule is actually repeating)?
If you are talking about log pages again, see my first post above. I'm not sure why this has you 'up in arms', but this is an innocuous UI artifact. Quit worrying about the headers on logs. They are static; they show a state that existed at a single moment in time. I can't offer any further explanations to make it clearer.
