Last Updated time in UI not automatically updating

Greetings,

I have a plugin that has "runConcurrentThread" to sleep every 30 seconds. I have a debug line in the method to check "runConcurrentThread" is running and it is, every 30 seconds. The problem is that the Last Updated time never updates automatically each time "runConcurrentThread" runs. Other plugins work fine in this respect. Is there a setting for this?

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   def runConcurrentThread(self):
      try:
         while True:
            self.errorLog('running concurrent thread')
            self.updateDeviceStates()
            self.sleep(30)
      except self.StopThread:

kind regards,

Z

Can you share your code for the method updateDeviceStates?

[jay (support)]

The last update is updated whenever device states are actually updated (with with changed data I believe) or when any of the built-in actions forces a state change (turnOn, etc). So, Colorado4Wheeler is right, we need to see what that method does.

Greetings,

Thanks to your for reply. I understand now, the method only checks a calculation and does not make a state change, because there is no state change there is no update.

I can make the method change a state every time it runs so as to trigger the Last Updated. Is there a way to run the Last Updated from the plugin?

kind regards,

Z

Is there a way to run the Last Updated from the plugin?

I'm not sure what you are asking, but if you want to update the Last Updated you can simply change a state variable or roll your own Last Updated state (I do this so I have consistency in my code and know that the date was changed by ME and not by something else, i.e., a light changing it's on/off/dim state).

You can change a state in your Python code using updateStateOnServer ([key], [new value]) and this should also change the Last Updated as well.