Filling up activity feed?

[nloui]

Has anyone else noticed that Big Talker publishes to their Activity feed a lot? I'm seeing it in there every couple minutes even though it's not actually saying anything

[rayzurbock]

BigTalker will be super chatty when you have enabled "Debug Logging"

To disable:

1. Go to My Home
2. SmartApps
3. BigTalker
4. Configure Defaults
5. Scroll to the bottom and turn off "Enable debug logging"

See if that solves the issue for you.

[nloui]

Unfortunately this is already off :-/

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Brian Lowrance [email protected] wrote:

BigTalker will be super chatty when you have enabled "Debug Logging"

To disable:

1. Go to My Home
2. SmartApps
3. BigTalker
4. Configure Defaults
5. Scroll to the bottom and turn off "Enable debug logging"

See if that solves the issue for you.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rayzurbock/SmartThings-BigTalker/issues/19#issuecomment-193580266 .

[rayzurbock]

What are the messages that you are seeing and that cause concern?

On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:42 PM, nloui [email protected] wrote:

Unfortunately this is already off :-/

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Brian Lowrance [email protected] wrote:

BigTalker will be super chatty when you have enabled "Debug Logging"

To disable:

1. Go to My Home
2. SmartApps
3. BigTalker
4. Configure Defaults
5. Scroll to the bottom and turn off "Enable debug logging"

See if that solves the issue for you.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rayzurbock/SmartThings-BigTalker/issues/19#issuecomment-193580266 .

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[nloui]

No errors but it just says Big Talker several times in a row, every few minutes which just fills the Activity window so it's hard to see the log of anything else. 

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:21 PM -0800, "Brian Lowrance" [email protected] wrote:

What are the messages that you are seeing and that cause concern?

On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:42 PM, nloui [email protected] wrote:

Unfortunately this is already off :-/

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Brian Lowrance [email protected]

wrote:

BigTalker will be super chatty when you have enabled "Debug Logging"

To disable:

1. Go to My Home
2. SmartApps
3. BigTalker
4. Configure Defaults
5. Scroll to the bottom and turn off "Enable debug logging"

See if that solves the issue for you.

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https://github.com/rayzurbock/SmartThings-BigTalker/issues/19#issuecomment-193580266

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[rayzurbock]

If you are using BigTalker with musicPlayer devices (Sonos, etc), BigTalker polls those devices for their current status every 60 seconds. 1 poll per device. This is done so that BigTalker and SmartThings can learn the latest playing and volume status of the device(s) so that it can attempt to resume/restart tracks and set the volume as needed after a talking event occurs.

If you are running BigTalker in speechSynthesis mode (Ubi, LANnouncer, etc), then the poll is not needed and does not run.

With Debug Logging enabled, you should see this poll request approximately every 60 seconds. I believe that SmartThings is now showing poll requests even when a SmartApp doesn't request a log entry to be placed. To check, enable debug logging and see if the message you are seeing coincides with BigTalker's log entry. Any log entries put there by BigTalker will be prefixed by "BigTalker(x.x.x) ||". If it doesn't start with that then it's a SmartThings log entry and not BigTalker actually requesting the log entry.

[Taz06660]

I'm having the same problem. Seems like when BigTalker is configured with VLC Thing the Notification Log fills up with BigTalker pings every minute. Watching Live Logging - VLC Thing Log, populates with a 'trace' every minute. It is not prefixed by BigTalker... Is there any way to disable this 'BigTalker' logging? If not from BigTalker then maybe via Smart Things or VLC Thing?