Ah, there is hope. Aeotec driver channel. Beginning to understand this a bit now…
UPDATE: And it works!!!
Thank you all for your help and patience!
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Only issue with the Aeotec driver is that it provides only a single switch in the app that controls both switches. You have to press on the “tile” to go into the device to control each separately.
Driver settings don’t seem to offer a way to create a single tile for the 2nd switch.
Is there a way to do this? I’ve seen “virtual switches” mentioned in some places. Is that what these are for?
A virtual switch, or any virtual device supported in smartthings, is just a software proxy that the system will treat like it’s a real physical device, even though it doesn’t exist in the real world. You set it via routines or other automations.
There are many many variations of these: virtual thermostats, virtual dimmers, virtual momentary relays, virtual presence sensors, virtual switches. Right now most of them are available through communitycreated edge drivers.
In the case of a multi endpoint device, where the smartthings app is only showing you the parent device on a tile and making you go into details to see the individual components, the usual workaround is to create a virtual device that can act as a proxy for one of the individual components. Then you use routines so that when the physical component turns on, the virtual device turns on. And vice versa. We say they “mirror” each other, or in the new architecture, they “sync“ to each other.
And that gives you a tile for the virtual device which you can use just like a main tile for the component device. You can name it, control it, use it in routines, even move it to a different room than the parent device.
Here’s the community FAQ on the current options,
FAQ: Creating Virtual Devices with the new architecture (Without the IDE) (2023)
Virtual devices also have many other uses, as you’ll see when you start reading through some of the threads about the edge Drivers.
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Awsome, that’s what I thought I’d have to do.
Many thanks!
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You can install with the CLI my Z-Wave Switch and Child Mc driver, I already fixed it to work well with your nano switch.
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Name Z-Wave Switch and Child Mc
Version 2023-02-07T17:59:48.87992422
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You can also use the stock Z-Wave Switch driver from this channel
https://api.smartthings.com/invitation-web/accept?id=450930c1-02a6-43d8-adaa-4cbc51027956
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Is that different to this one?
Unfortunately this didn’t work. Switch 1 and switch 2 both switched all switches on and off every time. It didn’t show 2 switches in multi-switch mode and didn’t have the option to create the 2nd switch as a separate device/tile
My model is the Dual Nano with power metering ZW132-C
You nee install this version date or higher
You can install it with CLI command:
smartthings edge:drivers:install
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Name Z-Wave Switch and Child Mc
Version 2023-02-07T17:59:48.87992422
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
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I see, thanks. Will give that a try at some point today
unfortunately it’s no different.
You mean it doesn’t work right?
I mean it doesn’ detect the 2nd switch/channel
Please, could you send me, when you can, a log of when you press on-off each switch on the device
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