Use a device's feature as the value in "Continue only if" and "State change"

[Archive] Feature request
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Hello everyone,
I propose that in the « Continue only if » block, in addition to a manual value as today, there be the possibility to choose a device, e.g.:
I have a temperature setpoint device; I would like to be able to specify whether the value from a thermometer is >, <, = … compared to the setpoint device.
I hope I was clear.
Unless I’m mistaken, I couldn’t find any request to this effect.
Thanks

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If I understand correctly, you can do it.
You need to retrieve the latest state of your device "setpoint temperature

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Hello everyone,

This could also be useful for other scenes, for example:

  • Turning on an ambient light when presence is detected, only between sunset and sunrise?
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If I’m not mistaken, it’s already possible by putting all the conditions one after the other… Isn’t it? :thinking:

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@guim31 , @Tlse-vins , I haven’t fully understood the workings of Gladys yet, but if I’m not mistaken it’s not quite what I want.
In my specific case for heating management, I have a room thermostat with a setpoint adjustment that I can change from Gladys or physically; in my scenes I want to be able to say: retrieve the measured temperature, then continue only if it is > the setpoint feature, not a hard-coded value.
This would avoid modifying the scenes to change the values, and allow managing the setpoint either manually or via scenes with time-based conditions, calendar…
Also, on rereading, this should be combined with another request already made, I believe, which is to be able to perform operations on the criterion

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What about calling your « consigne » scene from your scene, to continue only if it wouldn’t work?

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To work around this I have in a scene:

  • Retrieval of the setpoint temperature value
  • Retrieval of the room temperature value

An HTTP request to perform a subtraction

I still need to compare the result to zero.

This trick runs on 2 scenes: one to turn off, the other to turn on

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Great feature request. I’d rather retrieve the value directly in the trigger to do :

If variable temperature is less than setpoint value then action

The workaround from @b3n.0 is doable, but it’s still a workaround.

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Thanks @Fabic, I totally agree — it’s a great request :grin:

It seems to me that this makes sense and will help simplify some scenes and reduce their number, because today you have to work around it via Node-RED or other tools, which is not within everyone’s reach.
Let’s let the votes do their work

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Hello everyone,
Well, I think that with the latest versions part of the request concerning the « continue only if » block has been addressed, and with the ability to perform additional calculations as well :+1:
Great update, this 4.23 :fireworks:

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@gaelbillon great :slight_smile: I think we can close this request, right?

I don’t know if this request makes much sense in the « state change » trigger

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@pierre-gilles yes it can be closed.

For the one about the state change, I think there could be interest, but I’ll think about it a bit more and I’ll make another request if needed.

Thanks