I bought EasyTrigger to easily be able to toggle lights which, among other things, has allowed me to put back into service my once useless X-10 stick-on control pads and control 6 devices with one pad. It perfectly performs a function that should've been built into HS3 in the first place. Thank you Spud!
Now I'm hoping that this or another plugin can patch another deficiency with HS3 and might be able to sense when a switch has physically been pressed up or down at least. I like to blink devices I have on timers, on and off, two minutes ahead of their turning off. This allows the users to push the switches on to extend the timer or down to cancel events and also turn off the devices. Problem is I have to jump through major hoops to accomplish this, setting up virtual devices, disabling events, and whatnot, just to accomplish what should be simple blinks. It seems to me that HS3 must know at some level whether it has sent the ON command, for example, or has instead received a notification from a switch that it's status has been changed to ON locally at the device itself.
Hoping this could be a feature added to an existing plugin like EasyTrigger, or could be a part of new one.
I own Z-wave and Insteon devices. Any insights would be appreciated.
Now I'm hoping that this or another plugin can patch another deficiency with HS3 and might be able to sense when a switch has physically been pressed up or down at least. I like to blink devices I have on timers, on and off, two minutes ahead of their turning off. This allows the users to push the switches on to extend the timer or down to cancel events and also turn off the devices. Problem is I have to jump through major hoops to accomplish this, setting up virtual devices, disabling events, and whatnot, just to accomplish what should be simple blinks. It seems to me that HS3 must know at some level whether it has sent the ON command, for example, or has instead received a notification from a switch that it's status has been changed to ON locally at the device itself.
Hoping this could be a feature added to an existing plugin like EasyTrigger, or could be a part of new one.
I own Z-wave and Insteon devices. Any insights would be appreciated.
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