Can't create an action - "Control Music Player, Volume, Sounds"

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I have 8 C-7 Hubitat hubs, all running 2.2.8.156. Three of the hubs are not showing the action choice of "Control Music Player, Volume, Sounds" for Rules Machine 5. The other 5 hubs do show that. I am using the same trigger in all 8 hubs to test them but only 5 hubs allow me a choice that will allow me to have my Dome Sirens play a chime.

I have reinstalled the latest update on one of the hubs that isn't working right but it still doesn't show the action choice. All other choices match the remaining choices that I see on all of the hubs. I even reinstalled an earlier version of the platform version (went back to 2.2.7). That version did show me the "...Sound" choice but upgrading to 2.2.8.155 or 2.2.8.156 did not give me that option.

Anyone know why 3 hubs out of 8 are not showing me the choice I need?

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Is the Dome a mesh device or local on all the hubs?

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I merely mentioned the Dome Siren but there are also Aeotec Sirens as well. They don't enter in to the picture because the "...sound" action is not available in the front end of the rule. There are 4 Dome sirens and 5 Aeotec Sirens. Each is assigned to a hub and then used by all of the hubs via the mesh.

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Just for the sake of argument, if you create a rule for one of the devices on its native hub do you get the Control Music options? (Trying to eliminate the mesh as an issue)

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On the hub where you don't see the choice, for the rule where it doesn't show up, post a screenshot of Application State from the App Status page (gear icon), for the part of the state with 'installedCapabs'.

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Thanks! You gave me the clue that led me to the solution. The action list is device sensitive. If there is no siren assigned to the hub or connected via the mesh, then the "...sounds" action can't be used by that hub since it has no device to create a sound so "...sounds" action is not listed.

Thanks for the help. Your first response triggered my brain to think actions are device sensitive. The three hubs in question did not have any sound device assigned or have access via mesh. I added a siren via the mesh and my action list is fixed.

These Hubitat developers are smart folks to make the action lists dynamic and sensitive to devices. Thanks to all for the help.

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