State timestamp

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Hi, I just migrated from SmartThings Hub to Hubitat to be able to continue to run a few groovy apps. One of those apps controlled lights and checked if a room is occupied even if there is no movement. To be able to do this i compared state rawDateCreated of two devices, but that property is not accessible in Hubitat. Is there a way to read the rawDateCreated or do i need to rewrite the logic to record now in a variable which was not very reliable in Smartthings.

Motion1,currentState(“motion”).rawDateCreated.time

Thanks
Goppi

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event.getUnixTime() might be what you’re looking for.

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This seems to be for events rather then states. That said is there anywhere a dev docu for all the objects available in hubitat? I found one half finished docu. The SmartThings docu doesn’t have this method either listed.

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Yes, that’s the one that is half finished.

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I would go this route. What you appear to be trying to do would be woefully inefficient (although it probably wouldn't matter much).

Write now() to a state.variable whenever a motion or contact event happens. Read that state.variable whenever you need to check how long.

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Using a state variable is unnecessary as the state is used in the same function. Besides it’s not the answer to the original question.

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With some debugging and cross referencing with other methods, I figured out that i can get the event timestamp with the following code

Motion1,currentState(“motion”).date.time

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