How do you use HTTP switch with Alexa/Google Home

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HTTP Switch is great. What it lacks is the ability to “force” turning a switch on or off (in case, say, the switch was turned on by means other than ST.) @btrial’s solution was to create two momentary buttons (see here).

Now I’m trying to combine both. So basically 3 buttons. One to toggle on/off. The other two to “force” the switch to turn on/off regardless of the switch’s state. This is my first DTH, so any guidance would be appreciated. Here’s what I have so far:

I’m just abstracting from all the commands, etc. for now and try to focus on the interface. This is how I understand it works:

  • There’s a parameter switch that could take value “on” or “off”. The toggle tile reads this value and sets the background color, label, and action accordingly.
  • When on() is called, it sets this parameter to “on”… this should supposedly change the toggle and value_tile tiles… but somehow they don’t change.
  • The only change I see comes from putting in nextState.
  • The xxx is just there since I don’t know what to put there.

Thanks a lot!