I have started using the Group Helper feature introduced in 2022.04 for bringing together ZWave switches into switch groups. These all toggle as expected when using the HA soft control, automations, etc. However, these devices also each have a hardware toggle that does not toggle the HA soft control.
Request: I would like to see an option introduced to allow the controls in the group to activate a group event. In this case, I would like my wall switches to send their event to the HA switch group and uniformally set the state of all controls in the group to match.
Previously I was doing this through a few automations but the Group Switch toggle could be much cleaner and easier for new users to discover.
Any of the hardware switches in the group that are turned on should turn on the group entity, but not other members of the group. This is by design. It can be changed (all: true) so that all hardware switches have to be on to set the group entity on. Turing one switch off will turn the group state to off, but again, not the individual group members.
If you want this functionality you can automate it.
I was hoping a future release might include an option for the user to avoid the automation requirement. They could set something like sync: true so that all members of the group would be set to On\Off, not just the group entity itself. This would make it easy for users to create true control groups of various types right out of the box.
That’s what I’ve done in the past and was trying to avoid. I had an automation to responded to SW 1 through 4 toggle on and then set SW 1 through 4 state to on. Same for turning them off. It’s not difficult but the Group does not help me at all in this case.
Has there been a solution? I am also looking for this behaviour.
I have several Central Heating switches, each one with an on light indicator, any one switch can turn the central heating on/off. At the moment each switch is in a ‘On Automation’ and ‘Off automation’ allowing me to turn on each switch light.
I have setup a test to move to a group, so any switch turns the heating on, but I want to set the indivdual switch lights to on in the rest of the group. This will allow me to visually check if the heating is on/off from any of the heating switches around the house. Not just the switch initially activated. Thanks Grant