My old HAC died and am very interested in switching to HS3 - that being said, I have 0 experience with this platform so far so please forgive me..
Tasker is a big part of my existing automations, primarily revolving around custom variables set in tasker. E.g. incoming AutoRemote message MOTION=:=1 triggers a task, which sets %MOTION to 1 to control the motion sensor in a given room. While the motion sensor itself would be handled by HS3, it is important I am able to "push" this status update to my Android devices running Tasker so they "know" what the current status of my devices are, allowing me to view a homescreen widget that shows me that status at a glance via an icon for example..
The primary difference it would seem now, instead of using AutoRemote to send variable status updates, I would now be using the "Control a Device" event action using the Tasker plugin in HS3... The default event action seems like it's built to set %DeviceString on the recipient Tasker device which can trigger a variety of built-in functions TonIof has programmed himself..
What I would like to know how to do, is use this event action in HS3 to, for example set my own custom variables, say for example, I want to set %Motion to 1. Can anyone provide any help how or if I even can do this exactly? I am hoping the custom code option would allow this, but am very new to HS3.
Tasker is a big part of my existing automations, primarily revolving around custom variables set in tasker. E.g. incoming AutoRemote message MOTION=:=1 triggers a task, which sets %MOTION to 1 to control the motion sensor in a given room. While the motion sensor itself would be handled by HS3, it is important I am able to "push" this status update to my Android devices running Tasker so they "know" what the current status of my devices are, allowing me to view a homescreen widget that shows me that status at a glance via an icon for example..
The primary difference it would seem now, instead of using AutoRemote to send variable status updates, I would now be using the "Control a Device" event action using the Tasker plugin in HS3... The default event action seems like it's built to set %DeviceString on the recipient Tasker device which can trigger a variety of built-in functions TonIof has programmed himself..
What I would like to know how to do, is use this event action in HS3 to, for example set my own custom variables, say for example, I want to set %Motion to 1. Can anyone provide any help how or if I even can do this exactly? I am hoping the custom code option would allow this, but am very new to HS3.
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