I'm trying to get Google Assistant to be able to report the temperature of different rooms based on the temperature reported by the motion sensor in that room. I've created a virtual thermostat (since Google doesn't support temperature sensors) and Google will read me that temperature. Now I am trying to figure out how to sync the temperature of the motion sensor to the virtual thermostat. I tried to create a rule that when the motion sensor temperature changes to do the sync but I can't choose the value to send to the virtual thermostat to be based on another device. Same when I tried to create a local variable. Does anyone have any suggestions?
If you don’t mind using custom code then...
‘Average All’ will sync one or more temp sensors with a virtual thermostat as I know a couple of people do this.
You would just use a virtual thermostat instead of the averageall virtual device
Andy
I can confirm that Andy's average all works well, but if you don't want custom code and you only want to sent a single sensor's value to a virtual stat this works in RM4. Make sure you select string for parameter type.
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Thank you, that worked perfectly!
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I've been trying to do this same thing and having problems, I think I might be missing something. When I create this rule the same way as it appears in your screenshot, %value% gets changed to value() and it doesn't seem to actually use the value from the sensor in the trigger event as the parameter for setTemperature.
I have the same problem as @ardichoke
can someone help to understand this 
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I misunderstood what I was seeing. If temperature change is the only trigger for your rule, it will populate value() properly the first time it is triggered by a temperature change.
What I ended up doing, because I have a more complex rule that is triggered by multiple things, is set a local variable to the sensor value and then set the virtual thermostat temperature to that variable. Kind of a roundabout way to deal with it, but it works.
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