Hello,
I’m a long time SmartThings user finally making the move to HA. I’ve been using SharpTools for my more complex automations. I have an automation that I am setting the notification LED on multiple switches. Each switch needs 3 parameters set. I started going through the GUI automation builder and quickly realized that this is going to get messy…there’s going to end up being 16 lines of devices to manage. In SharpTools, you can select a group of devices and set them all once. As shown below:
Is there a similar way to do this in HA to make it easier to manage. I’ve been googling it and I think I might be going down the right path with helpers, or maybe a blueprint, but I’m kinda lost and just randomly clicking at this point and seeing if I can find something that works.
In short you can target multiple devices (don’t use devices use entities) entities, or even the result of whatever has been tagged with a certain label.
Go ham. (you won’t find a single thing thatbSharptools can do that either r the native HA automation engine or NodeRed can’t do.
That certainly look exactly like what I’m looking for, however, I cannot seem to figure out what options to click on in the GUI to get there?
When I click on “Add Action”…what option do I select to target multiple devices?
EDIT: I found that option, but that isn’t doing what I want. That turns the light itself on. My switches have config values that I can adjust. I need to be able to get into the config values.
Automations can be triggered by any or all of a large group of items together, there can be conditions of any kind and an unlimited number, and then the actions can be an unlimited number of actions indivudually or in groups with and/if/or/not and if/then/else in just the action section alone, etc., etc., and multiple iterations of each section of an automation, automations can call and pass parameters to scripts, visa versa, anything you can think of or want to do in HA is possible.
