Rule Machine - restrictions for Sat & Sun

I FOUND IT!

https://docs2.hubitat.com/en/user-interface/advanced-features/logs

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Maybe. Those are live logs, which will only show you entries that get generated after the page was loaded. To find things that already happened (probably the case here), you need the "Past Logs" tab on that same page.

A shortcut to get to Past Logs filtered to just the app you came from is the logs icon in the top right of the app page (the specific rule, in your case), as I mentioned above:

Okay guys PLEASE DO NOT get mad at this post. I hope it might even make you laugh.

I went into the kitchen early this morning and all the lights came on and worked just as the rule was written. I thought to myself "Great" all is well!

Well then I came later this morning like 6 or 7 am and NOTHING! After doing some trouble shooting and scratching my head. Going through the threads AGAIN to see what could be wrong NOW!

Well I found the problem. My wife unplugged the Linptech and plugged the can opener in. Problem solved. :rofl: :rofl: :joy:

Glad you figured out the problem!

This would be easy to see if you looked at "Events" for motion history on the sensor or looked at logs for the rule (or lack thereof), as suggested above. It would also be faster than guessing or eventually figuring this out on your own, as the clues should eventually suggest a problem unrelated to the rule. Tips for next time. :slight_smile:

Thanks so much!! :smiley: :smiley:

So just for grins is this when it was unplugged ?


You are right again! This log tells all.

No, if the device is sending a motion event, it definitely wasn't unplugged -- a device with no power source cannot send any information to the hub.

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Well, bertabcd1234

I’m reaching out because I’m confused about what may have happened and I’m hoping you can help clarify.

I personally found the device unplugged . And based on the schedule and when everything was last confirmed working, this would have had to occur sometime between 6:00 AM and 8:15 AM on Sunday morning, 12/21 .

Thank you for your help.

Whenever the Linptech was sending motion events, it had power.

It does not have an on-board backup battery, so when unplugged, it's dead - it can't send any events (to include reporting any sort of "Yo, I'm out" back to the hub).

The hub can't tell exactly when it left... If your hub is a party host and all devices are guests, this is the Linptech doing an Irish Goodbye.

If you have some kind of a polling tool set up (e.g. Device Activity Check), then the hub would eventually realize, "Huh, it appears that Linptech left sometime since I last saw that dude around here at xx;xx time".

In the Past Logs for the Linptech (not the rule), you may be able to tell when it came back to the party, depending on its level of reporting -- there may be something along the lines of an "Initialized" entry then in those logs.

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