I am new to Hubitat, but have been deep in the Home Automation for sometime. I just switched over from Homeseer after a brief stop trying to use OpenHAB. Both are pretty awful - so far after an initial challenge with setting up my network, I am really pretty happy with Hubitat.
My question is that I am handling presence two ways, one is via the mobile app on my phone, and another is by creating a virtual presence device - or at least I think that is the way to do it. Problem is that I have not been able to add the virtual presence device as a press-able button on my dashboard.
Basically, I want to allow a guest to set the house in Home or present mode via a dedicated tablet without them installing the app,
Any pointers or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you! Was not aware of this App - I ended up managing mode changes with a set of Basic Rules, but this is very helpful. Unfortunately I am still not clear on how to map the Mode change to a virtual device that I have set as "Virtual Presence", since it has the two buttons configured already as 'present' and 'away'. When I go to set the On and Off switch, it does not show up in the list.
I was assuming that simply creating a Virtual Device that was set as Virtual Presence would result in something that I could put on the dashboard that I could interact with and change its state.
I would get rid of the virtual presence. It's not in the list as the virtual presence device is not a switch. Create a virtual switch instead. Better yet, I would recommend a virtual button. That way you don't have to deal with the switch being on or using auto disable. Then simply add that button to any dashboard. Having said that, I think there is a way to use mode manager on a dashboard. I'll get back to you.
Yup, you can setup a mode manager tile right on the dashbaord. There are some great tutorials around. This one is for mode manager.
