Can I have two temperature capabilities in a single device?

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I’m not sure I know how to do this. I want to have two temperatures for a single device (say an indoor/outdoor thermostat or a barbecue probe).

sendEvent seems to only allow me to specify the “temperature” attribute, and not which of the tiles I’m targeting, unless I’ve missed a step. Ideas? In the mean time I’m going to go look at switches as I’d bet there are more samples with multiple switches than multiple temperatures.

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I think you want a smart app to do that

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Okay - then I’ll stop banging my head on that ;-). I’m using your pattern, was just thinking I could have one device representing the multiple temperature sensors.

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You could create a Virtual Device which is updated by a SmartApp with the two Temperatures.

There may or may not be room to display the two temperatures on one Main Tile.

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You can create you own attribute and send events to that, but a smartapp is much easier. If you really want to do it in a single device, check out my thinkingcleaner device.

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check out my version of the total comfort api device type for Honeywell. it had indoor temp readings… I added the event handler and tile for outdoor… and a custom attr. you would do the same thing

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