Question about the Aeotec Driver: I have one of these which I never used. Decided out of a need, to take it out of the box, and see if I could use it to turn on/off a guest bedroom smart light. Got it paired, using the already present driver. But noticed when setting up a rule to turn on the light, the driver was asking me for the button number! There is only one button to begin with, so this confused me. I entered "1" and proceeded with the rule, and it works. By accident, I noticed that holding the button dims the bulb.
My question is: Since there is only one button to begin with, why is the driver requiring me to enter a button number?
That's just how button devices on Hubitat work -- button events like "pushed" always have a button number associated with them, like "button 1 pushed," no matter how many buttons the device has; and (if this is what you mean--it's not clear) the "virtual" commands (like "push") to generate a button event similarly require a button number. This is true no matter how many buttons the device has.
However:
Are you using Rule Machine for this? Button Controller generally makes things a bit simpler, though if you only care about a single button number and event (e.g., pushed), RM actually might be simpler in that specific case. Otherwise, I'm not sure if you're talking about a "trigger" or an action here (trigger would make a lot more sense; if you're "pushing" a button in your actions, I can't imagine that would do anything unless you have some other automation set up to actually do something in response to that, and in that case it seems like a roundabout way where it would make more sense to just do the actions you want directly instead...). But with Button Controller or Basic Button Controller, it at least might be less confusing since it handles creating the "triggers" for the button events for you and shows you only what your device claims to support.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. Super appreciated. You answered it. It's the first, and only button device I have ever set up. Everything else has basically been a switch, contact sensor, or motion detector. Your answer infers that it just a way the Hubitat handles button devices in general.
Thanks again! Michael
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