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Overcoming the limitations of ZWAVE switch status with WebCORE

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It just happened that one fine day on 18 Feb 2018, all of my CORE pistons are not firing in Smartthings(ST). I could not find out why and I thought the CORE codes are way outdated and I upgraded it to the Dec2017 version. Still it did not work. This is when I discover that the author of CORE, Ady264 have started development on WebCORE. Seems that this will replace CORE eventually. Eager to solve my problem, I installed WebCORE. There is a very comprehensive youtube video of doing it ->  https://youtu.be/y_ElUwmmI6Y Still, even a simple piston is not firing for WebCORE after the installation. I suspect it's something to do with ST and I waited one day. As expected, it worked on the following day and it is likely to be due to issues on the ST services at the backend. Anyway, I found WebCORE to be much more versatile and easier to program than CORE. It also provides the enabling of detail logging so that you know exactly why your pistons doesn't work. Previously in