Requests for New Features

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I would like to suggest the following for additions to Rule Machine:

  • A way to access the Weather Underground Device Temperature.
  • A method of controlling the time of dimming/brightening not tied to the switch’s hardware capability.
  • The ability to select multiple Fans when choosing “Adjust this fan - Low, Medium, High, Off” under the "Set Dimmers, Bulbs Shades, Fans’ Menu.

For the Amazon Echo App:

  • Include the Zen Thermostat as a device.

If those things were taken care of, I would be able to move my last two programs from WebCore over and have all of my automations on my Hubitat.

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I'm not familiar with this, but doesn't it report temperature events?

I wrote an app for ST that did this, called Gradual Dim. Then somebody wanted it for brightening over 1/2 an hour for his fish. This one doesn't really fit RM, but is a pretty simple app.

That's easy. Will do. It will key of the state of the first fan selected in deciding what to do. There is an implicit synch assumed for the fans. If they are out of synch, they would stay that way until off.

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Weather Underground - There’s a new Virtual Device but there’s no coding in Rule Machine for it. That’s what I was looking for.

Brightening/Dimming - In Webcore, you could change the fade level over x number of minutes.

Fan - Why would you need to sync it? There are DTH that assign a low-med-high setting to the fans. Wouldn’t it just be keyed to that?

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Does the Weather Underground virtual device throw temperature events? Does is display capability “Temperature Measurement”? If so, it can be used in RM. If not, it cannot.

RM is not Webcore.

RM uses dimmer version of fan controllers. This could be changed, but hasn’t been as of now. Also, it is stateless in its approach, and it is only looking at one fan to determine state. So I guess if they were out of sync to start with, one adjustment would put them in synch.

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Is it possible to get a switch restriction on SImple Lighting?

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What do you mean? Please give a usage example.

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Similar to the switch restriction that is Motion Lighting. In ML there is an option ‘Switch to disable off’. This is useful if you want to have an override or do not disturb.

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Will put it on the enhancements list…

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Thanks!