SwitchBot Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer

Devices & Integrations
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Anyone know how to get these devices (SwitchBot Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer) to show (on the tile) temperature instead of humidity when they are added?

Thank you for any help you can provide.

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I don’t think it is possible. SwitchBot would need to make the change to their c2c integration, so contact SwitchBot customer service.

What I do is create a virtual temperature & humidity sensor and use the Rules API to transfer the data to the virtual switch. I get the following.

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Thank you for telling me about that feature. Had no idea it existed. That should do the trick for now.

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Hello, could you please share how have you done it? Did you use Browser API+ or something else?
Would appreciate your experience.
Unfortunately, Switchbot team didn’t not react on a request to change a profilei raised for a long time already.

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If you have a hub, you can create local virtual devices using vEdge Creator driver. If you don’t have a hub, you can create cloud-based virtual devices using the ST Advanced Web App. You can create cloud-based virtual devices using the API Browser+, but there is no temperature sensor available there.

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I create a virtual temperature sensor using @TAustin 's vEdge Creator edge driver. You need a ST hub to do that.

Then I copied a sample Rule from the community to transfer the temperature from the switchbot device to the virtual device. I use notebook++ to edit the Rule to include the proper device IDs.

Then I use @TAustin 's API Browser+ for 2 things. 1) to get the device IDs needed for the rule. 2) to transfer the rules I have written to my hub.

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Thanks, virtual device is clear :+1:
Could you please share a Rule file example or guide to a post with more info? Can’t easily find it in search.
To create a Rule it asks for .json file, as I understand this is what I need to update with IDs of my devices?

Edit: found this one, will try now. https://community.smartthings.com/t/virtual-temperature-humidity-tile/265600/3

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There are a couple of official rules tutorials in the following section, but they are old and I don’t know if they are up-to-date.

There is also a section of this forum just for rules topics. You might find some examples there. Definitely if you start working on a rule and have any questions, that’s where you should post them. (Officially, each rule you create is called a “recipe” but hardly anybody uses that terminology. It just never caught on. )

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