Issuing a Refresh every 2 minutes to Receive Current Temperature from Thermostats

[jsdrummer1]

I have Honeywell Home Total Connect Comfort setup in Linked Services in SmartThings so I can control my Honeywell thermostats. One problem I’ve had with that integration, is that the SmartThings app does not receive updates when the temperature of a thermostat changes. I found that if I refresh them, it does receive the current temperature of the thermostat. Since I base several automations on temperature changes in the rooms with these thermostats, I need them to be up to date. What I did in WebCoRE is to setup a piston to refresh all three of my thermostats every 2 minutes. This enabled me to receive accurate temperature changes with, at worst, a 2-minute delay.
Is there a way I could trigger a rule like this to run every 2 minutes with SharpTools? Can anyone recommend a better way to accomplish my goal?

[Bry]

Maybe I’m not understanding correctly, but the loop you discussed before should work here. It’s the same situation where you need to run something at an interval. I would do the same as you did previously, just remove the IF condition as it’s not needed.

Repeat Until Complete

In the past, I’ve had trouble with devices that don’t actually change. The best and most notorious example is my thermostats. I have various automations that turn on the Fan or set it back to Auto. About 20% of the time, when the command is sent to set the fan to on, it doesn’t, so in WebCoRE what I did to solve this problem is to set up a Repeat Action with an Until. When I’d want to set a thermostat fan to On, I’d repeat turning the thermostat fan to on every 5 seconds Until that thermostat fa…

[jsdrummer1]

Yep. Good call. I’ll do that. Thanks.