Inspired by a comment in another thread and the loss of internet for an hour or 2 today i thought i might make a couple of on off scenes to control some lights and a virtual switch to control them Once created the automations do not have the home symbol next to each automation meaning the automatio…

[image] fido: Inspired by a comment in another thread and the loss of internet for an hour or 2 today i thought i might make a couple of on off scenes to control some lights and a virtual switch to control them Once created the automations do not have the home symbol next to each automation mea…

[image] h0ckeysk8er: Scenes are not run locally. Seriously !!! Doh, see thats what you get for reading too much My best bet is to not do anything then lol

[image] fido: [image] h0ckeysk8er: Scenes are not run locally. Seriously !!! Doh, see thats what you get for reading too much My best bet is to not do anything then lol No, you can achieve what you want using the method I described in my response.

Yeah i already have all devices local, the net dropped out today so tonight i thought ‘i know, il make some fully local automations just as back up’ lol Can you tell i was bored…

[image] fido: Yeah i already have all devices local, the net dropped out today so tonight i thought ‘i know, il make some fully local automations just as back up’ lol Can you tell i was bored… My bad on Lighting Groups. Apparently, they don’t run local either so you’ll have to enumerate you…

Nor does the Smartthings virtual device offered in Labs, i wanted to test it to see if it ran localy, at present it does not though i do know that will change soon Tods Virtual devices always serve well though

This may be a dumb question but if you set up automations with a local virtual device to control local lights, how do you control the virtual device without internet? Or do you just make it a time based routine?

[image] fido: Is there a way to control on off for devices without internet ? Hi @fido You can make routines is a multiple button, that works locally with an edge driver and control local devices with the routines of each button without the need for internet I have a key fob with 6 buttons …

[image] fido: Is there a way to control on off for devices without internet ? As @Mariano_Colmenarejo said, for now in SmartThings you need a physical control device that runs locally to start things off. The Remotec zrc90 is another good multi button zwave device available in both North Ame…

In fairness JD, i know i have asked the same question in the past and you have patiently answered With all the changes it is hard to figure out what is local, what local means in different scenarios, what is truely local, you get my drift. I do understand localy running automations and devices, pe…

Local on off switch question

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