Hubitat Safety Monitor - Arm with button hold?

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#1

I see that the Hubitat Safety Monitor app has (under the "automatic arming/disarming page") a section where you can configure button devices to use to arm or disarm HSM:

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However, this doesn't seem to reflect the button model as it is actually implemented in Hubitat. It only lets you choose a button device and a button (maybe this means "push"? or could it mean any and every action?). If you have a device that supports holding (like the Minimote you see I'm using) or double-tapping, it's not clear that this will let you use those capabilities. I'm guessing this is part of the original implementation and wasn't updated when Hubitat adopted new button-related capabilities, but if I'm missing something, let me know.

If I'm right, consider this a feature request. :slight_smile: (I'm guessing RM can do it in the meantime, though I never checked. ABC, which I was already using for the Minimote, is apparently not able to change HSM status.)

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#2

Shoot me a feature request in the ABC thread (detail how you plan to use it) and I'll see what I can muster up this week. Don't think it would be too difficult to implement.

#3

Will consider the feature request. RM and Button Controller both can do it. Any app can set HSM per this API, by sending location events with hsmSetArm: Hubitat Safety Monitor API

#4

Thanks! But in the meantime, it's not clear to me what the existing feature does. Is it just for button presses? Or will it arm/disarm for any action (press, hold, double tap) on a button that matches that number? Even if you don't add any features, I might clear up the wording in the UI.

Thanks again!

(And I'll detail something in the ABC thread too; I'm trying to keep my automations for this device in the same spot so it's easier for me to see/change, so both HSM itself and RM were second choices for me.)

#5

It subscribes to "pushed.buttonNumber". Every button device supports "pushed". It's the least common denominator. The code could check to see if other options exist, but haven't seen a use-case need for it.

Do you have an actual use-case need for something other than "pushed"?

#6

That makes sense, but it isn't clear (to me) from the wording in the UI that only a push will make this happen.

But I do indeed have a use case. I was hoping to use a press of one button on a Minimote to either arm or disarm HSM and a hold of the same button to do the opposite. I did the same with SHM in ST, though I can't remember how I actually had that set up (probably Button Controller or a webCoRE piston). I can of course do the same with Button Controller, RM, or any app that supports these features in Hubitat, but when I saw these options in the HSM app I thought I might be able to use them instead--it just wasn't clear to me what they expected from the button.

#7

A fix to clarify the existing UI in in, due for release in a couple of weeks.

You can certainly do what you want with Button Controller. I'm not sure it's worth the UI complexity to do it in HSM.

#8

@bertabcd1234 I have updated the ABC app with the changes you requested. Report any bugs you find in the ABC thread.

Stephan

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