Many times we have to create an automation that is actually several, but we want to put it as a single one to maintain order and be able to activate and deactivate it completely in a simple way.
For example to turn on a light at one time and turn it off at another. The usual thing is to have two triggers and, depending on which has been fired, perform one task or another. There are times that a variable can be used to simplify it, but for novices it is not intuitive and sometimes both actions are very different and finally it ends up being added by adding a choose action.
Perhaps one option would be to be able to add “multiple automations in one”, simply by adding tabs within the automation. Internally independent automations, but they are grouped into a single one in the UI, sharing title, description, on/off switch and last execution value.
Can be a solution in similar actions, but if you have diferents conditions depending of the action you would get a huge automation instead 2-3 simples.
Right, so this would be grouping multiple automation into single automation. Now its clear to me.
but if you have diferents conditions depending of the action you would get a huge automation instead 2-3 simples.
Sidenote: Actually, that has a risk of creating conflicts. A choose if often better in such cases. With the changes in 2022.9, the “huge”-ness has been taken off by the collapsing.
Now its clear to me.