Why Doesn't Hubitat (or Life) Work The Way I Want It To?

[a.mcdear]

@marktheknife

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Here's mine from May last year:

Tiles showing current hub variable values do not update on cloud dashboard

I have a special dashboard which I have created for the purposes of displaying all current hub variable values among many other things for the sake of helping with debugging automations I've created. I have noticed that hub variables never update on the cloud dashboard. Seems pretty much everything else does, except hub variable tiles. I've applied a hub variable tile to many of my other dashboards as a test to see if maybe just this particular dashboard was broken, but behavior is the same on a…

Here's an even older one from 2021:

Hub variable w/o connector in Dashboard not updating unless screen manually refreshed

Is this normal behavior? I have to refresh dashboard to see variable number change values. It auto refreshes with hub variables with connectors. Also, if anyone thinks the following is not true let me know. capture / restore must occur in the same rule hub variables are lost if hub suffers power outage cannot read a local file to load a variable Thanks