Glen_King:
I’m trying to use a simulated device ‘backwards’. I’ve already managed this via Tasker for another purpose, but here’s what I want to do: create a “simulated frontdoor lock” such that
A) If the front door sensor says the door is closed
Then have “simulated frontdoor lock” report as Locked.
In other words, the simulated device won’t control anything. It will use the two conditions to make one reportable condition, that I can view remotely or ask Alexa to report. As all the devices in this endeavor are native to ST, I’m looking to do this entirely in ST rather than rely on Tasker.
The standard automation routines don’t seem to allow for multiple devices this way.
This should be very easy to do in web core, and quite difficult to do in anything else except maybe SmartRules ( which is a paid third-party app for iOS only).
Are you using Webcore now?
CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.”
Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you.
For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog.
If for some reason you don’t want to use web core, do you have an iOS device?
If not, then tasker may be your best bet if you don’t want to use web core.
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