I have two devices (switches) that control the same light via automatons. I want to remove an automation from one of the switches without deleting it from the other. So far, from searching here, all I can find it how to delete the automation which is not the goal. I want the automation to remain so the other switch can call it, but I no longer want it to be called by the first switch. Other then deleting the autmoation so it isn’t seen in either and then recreating it in the one I want… how to do this? The real problem is that I have 5 devices that call this one automation so I do not want to recreate this and reattach this for each.
Edit the automation, you can find out which switch by disabling that portion and saving it then run the automation to test. Disabling that portion does not delete it so that is how you find out what you need to change.
Not what I am asking. I know what the automation does and with what devices.
I have:
Device A that calls Automation-1
Device B that calls Automation-1
Device C that calls Automation-1
Device D that calls Automation-1
I want to cause Device B to call Automation-2
For example:
How do I tell this configuration to not call “Hall Ceiling Full Bright”?
Post your automations Both 1 and 2 using the code brackets (icon to the right of the double quote/left of the graphic icon.
So change the automation to remove the device B from the automation. Put device B into Automation 2 unless you want in both, then you may have conflicts unless you set very tight conditions that separate the two so there is now overlap or you have the light behaving like it is haunted
You have this backwards. The automations control the devices. You are also asking two questions. To make Automation-2 to control Device B, then click on the meatball (3 dots) and duplicate Automation-1. Remove the unwanted devices from the new automation-2 then save it as automation-2.
To remove device B from automation1, just edit automation1 and remove the device B entity.
lordwizzard and stevemann had the answer/solution. However, it was stevemann’s statement, “You have this backwards.” that made lordwizzard’s comment make sense to me. Yes. I was calling my switch a device (which it is) but it is also the trigger which is defined in the automation. So, going into the automation, and removing the trigger(s) that I did not want and adding the one I did… worked. Bravo!