Generic/template switch with assumed state?

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Hi there,

is there any way to have a generic switch with turn_on and turn_off scripts, and assumed state? So, kind of a template switch, but without the required value_template ?

Background: I have a few pilight switches with bad reception. So, I want to replace the plain pilight configuration by something of the above kind. In the actions I would repeatedly send pilight commands. But as there is no way to retrieve the actual state by a template, it would need to be assumed state.

I guess this would be possible with some input_boolean and complicated cross-scripting with the switch. But I would prefer something clean, i.e. one single entity of type switch.

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks! Andreas

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I coudnā€™t find anything. So, I decided to go for a change in the codebase. Hopefully, this will make it to the release soon:

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+1
exactly I am looking for

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If you know your way through the various automatic checks that failed on my PR, Iā€™m happy if you can help out!

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Create a normal Template switch but set:

value_template: "false"

Then, in the customize section, set:

assumed_state: true

for that switch and it works! You can turn the script on or off (regardless of state) and it will run the appropriate on or off script.

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Nice idea! Except the switch will always be off, right? Iā€™d like to know the state of the switch to determine whether (e.g.) my living room is on or off. Any idea on that?

Btw, there is the template light , which supports optimistic mode, but it does not accept the customized assumed state. So, I canā€™t switch it on from the UI, if itā€™s on already.

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Yes - the switch always reports as off so you certainly canā€™t use switch.toggle - which is a real pain.
The proper solution is for the code to change and just give us a switch that can run separate on and off sequences. Been waiting this for over a year so I canā€™t see it happening.
I never heard of optimistic mode - Iā€™ll check it out, thanks.