Function to disable a pimatic device

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Hello there!

I have a question, there are any way to disable a pimatic device?

Thanks

EDIT mwittig: This is a request for a function to disable a device.

@ridgarou said:

I have a question, there are any way to disable a pimatic device?

As far as I know this is not supported right now. What you can do is to change the class value, e.g., by prefixing it with DISABLED_ as shown in the example below. This will raise an error message at pimatic startup, but pimatic will continue anyway.

    {
      "id": "DummyDimmer",
      "class": "DISABLED_DummyDimmer",
      "name": "Dummy Dimmer"
    }

It will create an error message as follows:

13:34:52.637 [pimatic] no plugin found for device "DummyDimmer" of class "DUMMY_DummyDimmer"!

not at the moment. @sweetpi is working on a device setup gui for v0.9 as far as i know.
I could imagine this will take place there.

@mwittig said:

@ridgarou said:

I have a question, there are any way to disable a pimatic device?

As far as I know this is not supported right now. What you can do is to change the class value, e.g., by prefixing it with DISABLED_ as shown in the example below. This will raise an error message at pimatic startup, but pimatic will continue anyway.

    {
      "id": "DummyDimmer",
      "class": "DISABLED_DummyDimmer",
      "name": "Dummy Dimmer"
    }

It will create an error message as follows:

13:34:52.637 [pimatic] no plugin found for device "DummyDimmer" of class "DUMMY_DummyDimmer"!

Thanks @mwittig ths could be a good temporary solution. But I think it can be an interesting feature the ability to enable and disable a device using a button or a rule

@leader21 said:

not at the moment. @sweetpi is working on a device setup gui for v0.9 as far as i know.
I could imagine this will take place there.

Thanks @leader21, I’ll wait for that version. You know when you can be available?

@ridgarou said:

But I think it can be an interesting feature the ability to enable and disable a device using a button or a rule

Agree. Will move this thread to feature requests

@ridgarou said:

You know when you can be available?

Sorry, there’s no “timeline” yet.

@leader21 has this been implemented now? I would like to disable devices in case of auth failures to the backend

@Enis-Hoca No, it has not been implemented, yet.

@mwittig
now with v0.9 we should consider to implement this feature maybe into the device editor, what do you think? similar to the rules editor where you can set enable / disable state.
is it hard work to code this?

It would be great to disable a device from a rule so it’s possible to disable the control for the shade if it rains

if rain then move shades up and disable shades

or something alike

something like “getEnabledState” for the device itself would be the best I think. Then we are able to add either an expression or just a path to a .sh file or something like that.

also looking for this…
I’m planning to control my blindes in a “automatic mode” via rules and sunrise/sunset.
If the dummyswitch for auto is enabled, it would be nice that all other switches for the blindes are disabled/greyed out/hidden.

Something like this

That would be a cool feature if we could disable particular devices