New "Group" bulbs and virtual switches are set to ON under Devices even though they are off

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If I create a group of bulbs in Apps then go into devices and click on the group I just created, it will say that all of those bulbs current status is set to: ON when though they are all off.

Now, I'm also trying to setup some smart plugs in groups and when I also click on the new group under devices, Current States is * switch : on. Keep in mind I changed these smart plugs to virtual switches.

Anyway to fix this status issue?

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What options do you have configured in the Groups and Scenes app (not device) for that group? Between these two options (one will disappear when you select the other given that their behavior is mutually exclusive), one should do what you're looking for:

"Use group device to indicate if any members are on?" or "Use group device to indicate if any members are off?"

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That seem to work, however @bertabcd1234, I'm running into a small issue. I have a device that is hooked up to IFTTT. I need to create a virtual button that when pressed will trigger the button thru ifttt to the cloud device to trigger the button. There is no ON/OFF trigger. Just push and it does something. How do I do that? Each time I try to create a button, it does not work or trigger the button on the cloud device. It will work if I hook it up via a virtual switch but the on/off is messing with timers.

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IFTTT does not, as far as I know, support exchanging buttons to/from Hubitat, only switches. What I've done in this case is create a Virtual Switch device myself, set its "auto off" setting to some value (making it effectively a momentary switch, like a button), and expose that device to IFTTT, which can manipulate it.

If you're trying to use Hubitat's "scene activator" button device to IFTTT, then there's an extra step beyond the above, where you'd expose the virtual "momentary" switch to IFTTT. You'd also have to create an automation on Hubitat that activates the scene activator when that virtual switch gets turned on. For that, Simple Automation Rules would be the easiest way. I'm not 100% sure if this is exactly what you're trying to do, but the general idea for what IFTTT supports and how you can make that work with unsupported-by-IFTTT devices you may have in Hubitat is the same.

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