I’m new here so apologies if this isn’t in the right place. Please direct me if so.
I’m trying to set up a child device for all VZW31-SN switches in Hubitat, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out. I’ve added the latest drivers from Inovelli’s GitHub and played with some of the settings to no avail.
Essentially, I’m trying to turn my LEDs red when I set up my Ring Alarm at night, and then have them turn blue when the alarm is disarmed. I am currently doing this via a virtual switch in Alexa, and it works phenomenally with my older LZW31. For some reason, Hubitat created child devices for those with no problem, but since this was so long ago, I can’t remember how I did it. My guess it was done automatically. Any insight on this?
The newer Gen3 / 2-1 switches don’t create child devices for the LED bar like the older switches did, so the resource Bry linked to above is the best starting point.
I’m pretty sure the community app mentioned there is still available, but the developer is no longer a Hubitat user, so it’s not being actively maintained.
Ok, so I played a little with the LED Dashboard and got the LED to change to red when the condition is met. However, the LED Dashboard forces me to set the level of LED. For example, if I set the level to 100, this means that even if that light is off, the LED will be on, and that’s what I’m trying to avoid.
I’m trying my luck with the Rule Machine, but I can’t quite make it work consistently, and the parameters described in the article are confusing.
So when you set a notification to run, you have to set all four parameters, one of which is the illumination level. As you noted, you must pick an illumination level that will display regardless of if the switch is on or off. There is no internal switch setting, AFAIK, to vary the illumination level depending on the switch on/off state, within the switch itself.
What I would do would be to configure your rule using IF THEN ELSE logic. i.e. IF the notification parameters are met AND the switch is on THEN set the notification with X level illumination ELSE (i.e the switch is off) set the notification with this Y illumination.
TLDR You can’t do what you want within the switch. Use branching logic in your rule to set the illumination on way if the switch is on and another way if the switch is off.