[mh] How to query the real status of an insteon device via poll?

[Marc M. <ma...@me...>]

So, I woke up with a bunch of lights on today, which honestly I'm not sure
how they were turned on.

I checked my mh logs and they do not show the lights being turned on, and
the ones that worry me somewhat are the yard lights that could be on for
days without me noticing because you can't tell they're on during the day,
and I don't see them from my windows at night.

The obvious thing to do is to just query lights and send a warning if they
are on at the wrong time so that I can investigate.
I know that in theory if all my controlling devices are paired with my PLM,
mh should keep track of on/off events, even initiated by other devices (like
let's say my cat walking on the buttons of my remotelinc), but I want to
to be able to query for the real status, not the status that mh thinks the
device have.

So, what's the programmatic way to have mh query a device via poll to get
the real status as opposed to just asking mh to give me the status it thinks
the device has.

Thanks,
Marc
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