Thermostat Scheduler - still cannot control multiple thermostats in one RM action?

[simon4]

Reading this thread here:

Rule Machine control of Thermostat Scheduler

I had some difficulty related to the topic of this thread, so I am posting my experience. I use dashboard tiles (via Rule Machine v5) to change any one of these seven settings on TS: wake/night times, night heat/cool temps, wake heat/cool temps, and TS Hold. I created seven hub variables (4 decimal types, 2 date/time types, and one boolean). I made a single rule in RM that is triggered by a change in any of the seven variables. The action of the rule is to set the appropriate settings in TS, …

It says multiple commands in one RM action was listed as future release back in 2018.

I am assuming this was never done as I have been pulling my hair out for the last day trying to figure out why I couldn't set 4 thermostat schedules to hold on at once? Then found this thread, and moved each hold on command to a separate action and it worked.

[bravenel]

Yeah, there is a problem with this. Will see if it can be sorted out for the next release.

[bravenel]

The problem has been found and fixed for the next release. This one was a bit complex as there have been revisions to Thermostat Scheduler and Rule 5.1's actions to control them, each entailing some coping with backwards compatibility. There was also a new feature to Rule 5.1 to allow selecting a Thermostat Scheduler by the app name, in addition to by the thermostat names. The former only allows a single Thermostat Scheduler app to be selected, while the latter allows multiple thermostats to be selected -- and those thermostats may be associated with different instances of Thermostat Scheduler. This was the root problem not handled properly when multiple thermostats were selected.