Digital Versus Physical When triggering a rule

[russ.nichols]

I'm attempting to set up a rule that looks for the physical action of a Zooz Zen 22 Switch and then does something with that. Right now the rule triggers regardless of whether it is a physical or digital control of the switch. Is there a way in rule manager to do this?

[nigelmwilliams7]

Hi there

I have just posted a suggestion here and trying to improve with use of Private Boolean.

How do I disable a rule?

The difference between a Private Boolean (PB) and a Virtual Switch is that a PB is a component of a Rule vs 'storage' outside of Rule Machine. Each and every Rule has a PB an option. Therefore, to swap a virtual switch in your Rules for a PB, you have to pick a Rule to be the PB for this 'system' of Rules you've built. You'd swap 'true' for on, and 'false' for off in those places where you're turning the virtual switch on/off. You'd set true or false using the name of the Rule you picked to ha…