Door contact sensor

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hello, new to the whole Hubitat system (upgraded from Vera plus) in the old vera system, i could click on any door/windows sensor and turn if on and off (say i wanted to open a window to let in fresh air and for it not to alarm) i have added a sensor successfully into Hubitat, how do i do the same thing with this system, clicking on icon doesnt seem to do anything,

thanks

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What are you clicking on? is it on a dashboard (Easy or Original?) or somewhere else? What is causing the window get “armed”? And welcome to the community, @wilson32 !

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hello and thanks for the welcome, here are two pictures on what i am trying to achieve, it shows the window armed, i can then click on the switch and turn it to disarmed, how do i do the same thing in Habitat, and i have tried in the dashboard for that room, and also in the device list, thanks

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Welcome to Hubitat!

Hubitat doesn’t have the same mechanism as Vera to make a contact sensor “active” for a particular automation.

However, there are plenty of other mechanisms that Hubitat provides so that open/close events from a particular sensor serve as automation triggers only under specified conditions.

Perhaps if you could describe the automations you have in mind, the community can help you design ways to achieve your objectives.

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ok thanks, what i am try to achieve, is the following two senariors

  1. all windows sensors are armed, i want to be able to turn off an individual sensor so i can open the window without setting off the alarm
  2. front and back door sensor are off (unless i set the house to armed) and i want the ability to just set either to armed if i need, without setting the whole house to armed

i hope that makes sense

thanks muchly

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What are you arming with? Hubitat Safety Monitor, or something else?

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yes thats the one

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One way would be to create another Mode in HSM that doesn’t include the sensors to ignore. A pain to implement.

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thanks guys, this is gonna be a pain me thinks lol

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Mine may very well not be the only solution. Also, I believe you can replicate HSM with Rule Machine and set it up however you want. Or if you are very adventurous, vibe coding is the way to go (unless you are into learning all that coding stuff) and roll your own HSM replacement.

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This is not something I’ve seen before on Hubitat, but would likely be a good new feature ask…

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If that is an option to disarm the device itself from even sending the events, the equivalent to that is to disable a device.

The disable toggle is shown on the device list page:

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It is also at the bottom of the device page for that device:
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I don't use Rule Machine, but Gemini says you can change it from a rule:

Steps to set it up

  1. Open your Hubitat Web Interface and navigate to Apps > Rule Machine.
  2. Select the rule you want to edit.
  3. Go to the Actions section and choose to Create a New Action (or edit an existing one).
  4. Under the action type selection, choose Capture/Restore, Device Refresh, or Polling.
  5. Select Enable Device or Disable Device as your desired action.
  6. Choose the specific device(s) from your list to apply the rule to, then save your changes. [1, 2]
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That looks like it would work, but Rule Machine is now under Automations.

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thanks @chrisbvt that gets me 90% of the way there, really appreciate it

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totslly, how can one submit a request for a feature

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You can make a new post under the “Feedback” topic. This will automatically add a voting button, so if enough people think it’s a good idea, it increases the probability of it being picked-up by the Hubitat team.

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i shall do that, thanks again