Unexpected behavior with global variables & dashboards after 2.2.8 update

[brad5]

I have two global variables:

I reset the two variables every morning at 4am as follows:

Then I display them in a dashboard as follows:

This worked fine under 2.2.7 but since the 2.2.8 update the dashboard tile simply displays the current time, not the variable time. And yes, it does increment.

I suspect this may have something to do with global vs hub variables (perhaps I missed something in the documentation?) but not sure if it is expected behavior and I just need to switch to RM5 for this, or something else.

[woodsy]

I am seeing the exact same thing.

[Grogu]

I'm having a similar issue with the DateTime Hub variable. I have a rule that stores the last four time stamps when a motion sensor was active. The rule was working fine before updating to 2.2.8. Now, whenever there is motion all four Hub variables are set to the current time. I deleted the Legacy rule and Global variables, recreated it in rule Rule-5.0 using Hub variables and rebooted, but it didn't fix the issue. The Rule is:

Select Trigger Events
Ecolink Motion active

Select Action to Run
Set Driveway Motion 4 to Driveway Motion 3
Set Driveway Motion 3 to Driveway Motion 2
Set Driveway Motion 2 to Driveway Motion 1
Set Driveway Motion 1 to currrent time

[brad5]

So it would seem the issue has more to do with the variables themselves rather than the dashboard... sounds like a problem for @bobbyD and the Hubitat team unless we're all missing something similar.

[woodsy]

Looking closer, all the issues I am seeing are local variable with connector type variable.
The variables are correct in the rules (legacy) but the dashboard displays the current time as of last refresh of the dashboard.

[brad5]

OK cool. I did notice my variables also show up in RM correctly. Maybe just a dashboard thing then.

[bravenel]

We sort of goofed this up with the transition to DateTime in Hub Variables instead of "variable" used for time with Global Variables. We will figure out a fix for this.

One way out of it is to use a Hub Variable with Rule 5.0 instead of Global Variable with Rule-4.1. But, it does need to be fixed.

[brad5]

I just gave that a shot by deleting the global variables in RM Legacy and creating hub variables of datetime with a connector. But there is no corresponding datetime variable type in Dashboard, and if I choose type time or type date I get an invalid date (or time).

[bravenel]

There are both Variable Time and Variable Date tiles. One displays/sets the time of a DateTime variable, and the other displays/sets the date.

[brad5]

Right but in the screen shot above it shows the variable time template yet the tile shows invalid date. This is after I deleted the global variable and created a hub variable.