Change device state without executing action

SLiX

Hello,
is it possible to change state attribute of ShellSwitch without executing the “onCommand” & “offCommand”?
My goal is to have a ShellSwitch, which shows the state of my TV (off: state=false, on: state=true), and which is able to switch on/off my TV via IR.

Through a ping device I’m able to get the real state of the TV (my TV has an ethernet port). With a simple rule I want to change the ShellSwitch state attribute, if I turn my TV with my ir remote off/on.
The problem is, my ir remote has only one button for turning my tv on/off. So if I turn my TV off with my remote and the state changes to false (made by rule described above), my TV is going to start again because of the ‘offCommand’ and the other way around (because “onCommand” = “offCommand”).

best regards

mwittig

@SLiX said:

is it possible to change state attribute of ShellSwitch without executing the “onCommand” & “offCommand”?

No, I don’t think so. See also issue https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/issues/450
According to the ticket there should feature request pending, but I could not find it. Thus I’ll change the topic title to “Change device state without executing action”.

Beside this, I am not sure whether or not it make sensible to generally allow set operations on attributes. Some attributes should be read-only but there is no such concept in pimatic right now. @sweetpi what do you think?