Control of security devices is gone...

[jasv]

I used to be able to "force change" my security devices. There used to be an option to "control device" where I could change it to "alert", "normal" and "unknown". Granted, I did that mostly for testing conditions and scripts.

Is this something that is different from the free WF800 plugin vs. the ACRF plugin?

I am nervous to try switching to the old plugin because I've added/changed my security devices and I am worried that when I change back, I will need to redo everything. Can I switch between the 2 without having to "redo"?

[Oman]

I used to be able to "force change" my security devices. There used to be an option to "control device" where I could change it to "alert", "normal" and "unknown". Granted, I did that mostly for testing conditions and scripts.

Is this something that is different from the free WF800 plugin vs. the ACRF plugin?

I am nervous to try switching to the old plugin because I've added/changed my security devices and I am worried that when I change back, I will need to redo everything. Can I switch between the 2 without having to "redo"?

You can still force it by using the device control events or calling &hs.SetDeviceValue from a script command. They were removed from the device UI because changing them from the front-end would cause the plugin to be out of sync with HomeSeer and things would go wrong afterwords. It was nice for testing but then when the system went "live" some of the sensors could be out of sync and therefore not trigger the system when they should. Generally this was a *bad* thing.

Jon

[jasv]

Got it!

Thanks for the update and I agree with your conclusion/approach.\

So is the switching between W800 and ACRF a bad idea?

[Oman]

Thanks for the update and I agree with your conclusion/approach.\

So is the switching between W800 and ACRF a bad idea?

Switching back-and-forth would be a very bad idea. If is it critical to have UI device control I could add an option in the plugin that would default to "off". Or maybe I could build in a test procedure that coud do what you need without getting everything out of sync.

Jon

[jasv]

No need.

There is no need to do anything further. Using an event to force the security devices to a status works just fine. The question about switching back and forth was just a curiosity question to see if my paranoia was justified and it seems like it was.

Thanks again for a great plug in.