Hi, I have a situation where I’d like to have two switches that prevent motion lighting from turning off, but the interface currently only allows selecting one switch for this purpose. You can select multiple contacts or buttons, but not switches.
Am I missing something here? Perhaps there’s a reason for this, but I’d love to see this added if possible.
Thoughts?
I'll look at it. There is an easy work-around with a simple rule and a virtual switch.
I see what you’re saying about the work-around. I was able to implement with a virtual button controller and a RM conditional action. Not the prettiest thing, but functional! Thanks for the tip. If you’re able to implement multiple switches, however, I’d still love to use that method.
@bravenel, were you able to look at allowing the selection of multiple switches here? My workaround is pretty messy...I’d love to be able to simply select more than one switch to disable off. I didn’t see this added to 2.2.6, so I thought I’d ask again.
Thx!
@bravenel, any thoughts on this? If it’s not possible, could you detail how you’d implement the workaround? Thanks.
A simple work-around involves creating a virtual switch, and then turning it on/off with the multiple switches you have in mind. A Basic Rule or RM rule would do the work. One issue to deal with is what it means: Assume any switch turning on disables. What if two switches are on, is it only disabled when all are off? If so, Basic Rule would work for this.
The reason I haven't put this in the app is because the use case specifics (as described above) are unclear to me -- so will be unclear to others as well.
Previously you said you’d look at it, but now you say the use case isn’t clear. How would you like me to detail out my request? Is there a specific format or details you need?
See my immediately prior post. Please explain how you intend to interpret the states of multiple switches being on or off.
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