Combine Two Switches Into One

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I have four SwitchBot switches attached to my pool remote. The remote has on/off buttons for the lights and separate on/off buttons for the spa heater.

Currently, I have four instances in HA for the switches (Pool Lights On, Pool Lights Off, Spa Heater On, and Spa Heater Off). On/Off for each instance does the same thing, triggers the switch.

I’d light to just have a rocker On/Off so “On” triggers the SwitchBot attached to “Pool Lights On” and “Off” triggers the SwitchBot attached to “Pool Lights Off.” Same for the Spa Heater.

I’ve tried coding a “template switch” and an automation to no avail.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

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Do you have feedback to Home Assistant that tells you the state of the lights and heater?

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I’d start with a helper for pool lights and spa heater.

  1. Go to Configuration | Helpers
  2. Tap the ( + ADD HELPER ) button on the bottom right
  3. Select a Toggle
  4. Name it “Pool Lights”
  5. Do the same for “Spa Heater”
    Now you’ve got your toggles, but they don’t do anything. You need some automations as follows:
# When Pool Lights turns on, push the Switchbot for Pool Lights On
- alias: 'pool lights on'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.pool_lights
    to: 'on'
  action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.switchbot_pool_lights_on

(I’m not sure how you activate a switchbot, so you might have to change those last two lines.)
Do the same thing for pool lights off, spa heater on, and spa heater off using the corresponding helpers (input_booleans) and switchbot commands.

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Thank you! The Pool Lights work intermittently but I can only get the Spa Heater to turn on, but not off. Here is what I have:

#When Pool Lights turns on, push the Switchbot for Pool Lights On

  • alias: ‘pool lights on’
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.pool_lights
    to: ‘on’
    action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.pool_lights_on

#When Pool Lights turns off, push the Switchbot for Pool Lights Off

  • alias: ‘pool lights off’
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.pool_lights
    to: ‘off’
    action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.pool_lights_off

#When Spa Heater turns on, push the Switchbot for Spa Heater On

  • alias: ‘spa heater on’
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.spa_heater
    to: ‘on’
    action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.spa_heater_on

#When Spa Heater turns off, push the Switchbot for Spa Heater Off

  • alias: ‘spa heater off’
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.spa_heater
    to: ‘off’
    action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.spa_heater_off
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It looks like it should work as you have it. Check the indentations. (I can’t see that from your copies.) Hint: if you use three tildes (```) before and after your copied automations, it shows exact indentation and highlights parts of text like this:

#When Spa Heater turns off, push the Switchbot for Spa Heater Off
- alias: ‘spa heater off’
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.spa_heater
    to: ‘off’
  action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.spa_heater_off
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Thanks again! You’re awesome.

It appears I had the incorrect MAC address in the Config file for Spa Heater Off. Human Error!

Here is my code with the correct indentations (thanks for the tip!):

# When Pool Lights turns on, push the Switchbot for Pool Lights On
 - alias: 'pool lights on'
   trigger:
     platform: state
     entity_id: input_boolean.pool_lights
     to: 'on'
   action:
     service: homeassistant.turn_on
     entity_id: switch.pool_lights_on

# When Pool Lights turns off, push the Switchbot for Pool Lights Off
 - alias: 'pool lights off'
   trigger:
     platform: state
     entity_id: input_boolean.pool_lights
     to: 'off'
   action:
     service: homeassistant.turn_on
     entity_id: switch.pool_lights_off
    
# When Spa Heater turns on, push the Switchbot for Spa Heater On
 - alias: 'spa heater on'
   trigger:
     platform: state
     entity_id: input_boolean.spa_heater
     to: 'on'
   action:
     service: homeassistant.turn_on
     entity_id: switch.spa_heater_on

# When Spa Heater turns off, push the Switchbot for Spa Heater Off
 - alias: 'spa heater off'
   trigger:
     platform: state
     entity_id: input_boolean.spa_heater
     to: 'on'
   action:
     service: homeassistant.turn_on
     entity_id: switch.spa_heater_off
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