On switch to rule them all - virtual switch to control several switches

Hi,

want for my home panel on virtual switch which i can press for on/off to controll several

sockets and light switches

I thought the rule app would be the way to go but struggling with having on app switch for on and off ?

Any templates existing?

There are several different ways to do this. For Rule Machine, personally, I would use two rules. Here is a sample on:

Trigger
Virtual Switch On

Action
Turn on XYZ switches (all switches you want controlled by the virtual switch)

Just do the opposite for Rule 2 to turn everything off.

Room Lighting would work if you created an Activator Device and put all the other switches in the device table with both ACT and OFF checked.

Finally, you could also use Switch Bindings ([RELEASE] Switch Bindings 2.0) to do this as well.

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Sounds like maybe you just want to create a group?

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Yes great thanks for the help!