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stjohnjohnson / smartthings-mqtt-bridge

Bridge between SmartThings and MQTT
https://hub.docker.com/r/stjohnjohnson/smartthings-mqtt-bridge/
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Can't set Virtual/Simulated Contact Sensor state #148

Closed mbaran5 closed 6 years ago

mbaran5 commented 6 years ago

I am running into a wall with a project I am working on. I am trying to use this project to set the state of a virtual contact sensor.

Is the command ‘contact’ read-only?

I have a real contact sensor, it reports as:

contact:closed
contact:open

When i try to issue either command to a virtual contact sensor, it never changes. The smartthings sample one has a open/closed press action, but trying to set it via MQTT never changes the state. Is there something I am missing, or does ST not allow this?

my ST log looks like this: Received device event from bridge: [name:Office Window, value:close, command:true, type:contact]

The command I am sending via MQTT looks like smartthings/Office Window/contact open

Essentially I have combined rtl_433 with MQTT and a python script to re-use about 15 SimpliSafe 433mhz sensors. Everything is working except for the state of the contact changing.

What I have tested is using a Simluated Switch which does work, I can use MQTT messages to change the switch to on or off so I know everything up and into SmartThings is working. I am not sure where to proceed… It may just be impossible to change a contact sensor's state. Any thoughts?

mbaran5 commented 6 years ago

Closing: This was solved in another issue.

JZ-SmartThings commented 5 years ago

@mbaran5 please mention which specific issue or just link to it. Still seems to be an issue IMO.

JZ-SmartThings commented 5 years ago

@mbaran5 no need to comment. Turns out the contact capability of SmartThings is read-only. The only workaround was to have a hidden switch on the same device that syncs with the contact sensor capability.

mbaran5 commented 5 years ago

Sorry for the delay. You're correct in that contact is read only, and I worked around it the same way. I used this UVDT to set on/off which synced with the state of open/close

https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-universal-virtual-device-type-and-translator/47836/95

I only used the switch functionality of it and disabled the rest.

JZ-SmartThings commented 5 years ago

@mbaran5 thanks for sharing, very nice to see an all-encompassing DTH --- wish I tried it before coding my own :)