Rule Machine variables possible bug?

[tivomaniac]

In Rule Machine I had setup a rule to set a variable based on a sensor value. When I'm given a list of devices to get the humidity from it also shows global variables but why would those show when I said sensor? There is another option to set a variable to another variable.

The Guest_Bath_Humidity and Master_Bath_Humidity are global variables not sensors. Or do they show since they are set from a sensor? If that's the case though why have the option to choose Variable from the drop down?

[bravenel]

You must have created humidity Connectors for those variables.

[tivomaniac]

Guilty. So that's expected then. Okay good to know it just seemed out of place since a variable isn't a sensor and there is an option if I wanted to use a variable to set another. But if it's not a bug that's all good.

[bravenel]

Connect Global Variables to Dashboards

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