Hello everyone,
I am using a Shelly 1 as a garage door opener.
Of course HA thinks of it as a switch. But it it really a toggle device. So it must not be left on or off but only be toggled. Appliance type toggle does not seem to exist. Is there a different solution?
In addition, as I do not want anybody to mistakenly open the garage door (as I have no sensor to report that the door is open), is it possible to have a confirmation screen when toggling? Kind of like an “are you sure you want to open the garage door” confirmation pop-up?
@tom_l : Thank you, that’s a nice read, but unfortunately not what I was looking for. Is it not possible to define the Shelly as a toggle device rather than a switch? I would like to do without the auto-off timer.
The Shelly is already setup as a toggle device. So if I open the WebUI I can toggle the door.
But instead of the on-off-switch in Lovelace I would like a simple “toggle” button that will toggle and not turn on-off.
If that is not possible, then I could of course use a http command to send a toggle command, but that again is unnecessarily “complicated”. Code should be simple.
If all fails, I will use the auto-off timer of the Shelly, but it is not a clean setup.