New version disallows checking parent device values effectively making HS unusable

[Michael McSharry]

You can regroup child device/features under different parents. You could have one parent for Temperature Sensors and then put all your temperature sensors under that one parent. You could even have one Virtual Device and have all your existing children put under that single parent. mcsMQTT and Jon00 grouping utility lets you do this.

[tahl]

Hi,

The thing I like least about HS4 is the notion of child devices as a normal construct. About 50% of my devices are virtual devices and I don't need child devices.

As I set up my program on HS4, I was able to avoid setting up child devices in some cases. So in my events I check the device (parent) variable directly. Now with the new version, _all_ parent devices are grayed out for IF sections of the events. For events I already have that check the parent device, they haven't broken. However, since the parent devices are now grayed out, I can no longer add new events that want to check the parent value.

If I add child devices to my virtual devices, I will need to redo a great number of events.

Am I missing something?? Any work-arounds appreciated!

Tahl