Feature description
In dashboards, you choose a feature to display, whereas in scenes the actions are ‹ Turn on/off the outlets/lights ›. However, in the latter case, the first feature of the defined type is executed, which causes issues for devices that have the same feature multiple times. Wouldn’t it be more sensible to allow selecting a feature as the action rather than a device?
PS: as it stands, you can choose « Control a device » to pick the correct feature, but it’s immediately less user-friendly
Good evening @Romuald_Pochet
If I may, I think that for this issue it should be taken into account that the same phenomenon occurs in Google Home (and perhaps Alexa as well). I think that addressing the problem by using « Actions » will not fix the Google Home issue. I’m in favor, hoping that both problems will be resolved simultaneously.
I completely agree, this « problem » also occurs in Google Home. I worked around this « problem » in the new rZwaveJS integration by splitting a device into several virtual devices, each device containing only a subset of the features of the physical device (which can thus, for example, be associated with a room)
@Romuald_Pochet Which device do you mean that has this problem?
On the Philips Hue side for example, the features are never exposed to the user (because these are very « simple » devices), and so it would be a regression for me to move toward adding features.
I can understand that some « complex » devices are more complicated. I avoid complicating the whole as much as possible for only a minority of « complex » devices, so I’m open to feedback
In scenes, actions of type ‹ Turn On/Off plugs/lights › are the devices and we choose the first feature of a given type on the device. This is therefore the only place (it seems to me) where we do not expose the features. In the case of simple devices, we have 1 device = 1 feature and thus offering one or the other changes nothing (aside from the name to display). For multiple devices (2 outputs for example), we would offer both switches.
