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@Michel Kohanim Can you check with @OneClicktoControl to see what I may be doing wrong. I was hoping to avoid managing tasker on wife and kids phones and this seemed like a great solution, but it's just not working unless the app is opened and and a manual report location issued. Thanks, Mike

It works, instead of constantly updating the state variables, I'm taking another route for now. I say "turn on driveway sensor update" to populate the three state variables and then I can ask for the brightness of the driveway temp/humidity/luminance and get the correct values reported. If I find I use it often, I'll go back to updating the variables on every reported change from the sensor. It's actually the same program, the if just checks to see if the current reported values are different from the variables. I pretty much knew this method would work, but it's a bit convoluted so I thought I would ask to see if there was a better way to handle multi-channel devices.

The sensor updates when it changes temp by 1 degree, humidity by 5% and I forget the exact value for luminance, maybe 5%. The thresholds can be configured. By reducing overhead I mean not needing a program to update three state variables every time the values exceed the threshold and get updated. I guess my question could be simplified to - Is it possible to get a Z-wave multichannel devices values through the portal via a spoken? Perhaps I should have posted this in the portal section since the same question would apply to Alexa. I also shouldn't have used the word "query", what I meant is to ask Google assistant or Alexa to report the temp or humidity via a spoken. The sensor is battery operated so doing a Z-wave query while it's asleep is ineffective.

@bmercier can you chime in on this when you get a chance? Perhaps I should have posted in the Portal section since the same question applies to Alexa.

I have a Z-wave multisensor (Temp, Humidity, Luminance) mounted outdoors and I would like to be able query the values via spoken. Is there a way to do this directly? The only workaround I can think of is to have a program update state variables for each of the three values whenever they change, then I can ask the "brightness" of the state variable. Is there another way without all the overhead? Thanks, Mike

Need to set up geofence for 4 phones and wanted a simple solution versus needing to manage tasker on 4 phones, so gave UDI Mobile a try. Initial results looked promising, but background notification is unreliable. I see notifications on the bottom of my phone that no network is available, which is not true, I'm either on WiFi or mobile data all the time. If I open the UDI mobile app and manually report device status it will update correctly, but all 4 phones do not background update reliably. Settings (I'm editor) Distance 1, Time 10, Geofence 300 meters Phones 2 Moto X4 and 1 Original Pixel all running Pie, 1 Nexus 5X running Oreo. @OneClicktoControl ideas? Thanks, Mike

I noticed the same error starting weeks ago without any configuration changes. However, I'm still able to add new spokens and can control devices from the app and spokens, so I've been ignoring it. My spokens work almost all the time, I get the occasional "looks like this device isn't set up yet", wait a few minutes and it works.

When testing you can also manually set the state variable value from the Admin Console. Great new functionality, Thanks