Just as a bit of description: I get the last Alexa used, store it in ‘last_alexa’, and route a command to a specific ceiling fan based on that. But its regularly choosing the wrong fan. What am I missing here?
Anyone got any ideas? Is there more information needed?
the status text of the current state node is typical msg.payload not msg.payload.last_alexa so unless you’re changing that somewhere that could be your issue.
It’s set to last_alexa in the ‘Get last Alexa used’ node. And the super weird thing is that its intermittent.
@Kermit Any chance you’d have a chance to look at the code? I just an even odder occurrence where the command turned two fans on high.
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Not sure if it matters, but I would try changing your switch nodes that route to the 3 different fans from “checking all rules” to “stopping after first match” and add a 4th “otherwise” output and send that to a debug node to see if it’s not finding any match at all. I would also add a debug node to the outputs of those switch nodes to confirm that msg.payload.last_alexa is what you expect.
For troubleshooting over a period of time I like to log results to a file that I can check to see what happened without needing to monitor the flow in real-time:
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