Why Make Virtual Switches In Hubitat?

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Жыл бұрын

Virtual devices inside of Hubitat let you quickly automate the very mundane tasks inside your home, plus they are very easy to setup.
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@HydroHavenGrow Жыл бұрын

You're not a rocket scientist? Huh, I learned something new today. Pretty cool stuff. Smash.

@HouseDadLife Жыл бұрын

Lol not yet anyway, never say never though right?

@ronm6585 Жыл бұрын

Thanks H.D.L

@HouseDadLife Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Ron!

@ypark2877 Ай бұрын

Would use hubitat but have basic Lutron’s. Will virtual switches to program them? Other wise have to keep with smarthings. Dont want to have to buy new kutron pro box

@HouseDadLife Ай бұрын

Makes sense, I think they are supported by Homey Pro, the Lutron that is, but I could be wrong.

@JamesDLegan 2 ай бұрын

Just curious. I came from Smartthings and I am now using the C-8 Pro. Unlike Smartthings when I created a routine to use with Alexa I found out that the only way to get it to work on HE was to also create a virtual switch to turn on to run a basic rule. I also had to create another basic rule to then turn off the virtual switch after 10 seconds so it would be ready to run the next time. Everything works fine with Alexa, but I am wondering if I am doing this correctly or there is a simpler way? 🤔

@HouseDadLife 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to help but I don't have Alexa. That being said if you send an image of the rules involved to my email in the about me page I'll see if I can help.

@MrSibi101 10 ай бұрын

One important thing for me: can I use... set up etc this device with my phone ONLY? I don't know anything about coding etc... and I was wandering if I can set up EVERYTHING from my iPhone ? Computers are not my thing

@HouseDadLife 10 ай бұрын

As long as it is on the same network and you get the C8 you can do everything from your phone. Just don't connect the ethernet on initial power up.

@TheRemyRomano 8 ай бұрын

I suppose you could also use a virtual momentary switch and then you don’t have to turn it back off.

@HouseDadLife 8 ай бұрын

Yup that works as well.

@henryanderson369 Жыл бұрын

A question how do you get your Hubitat dashboard to a tablet Please help Thanks

@HouseDadLife Жыл бұрын

Log into Hubitat on your computer, go to apps, dashboard, at the bottom there is a link. You'll need to copy that, and put it into the settings on your device.

@henryanderson369 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for information I will try this and I hope in the future you would make a video on that subject Thanks so much

@MAC-kn6jv 3 ай бұрын

Not a big deal but you didn't hit the "Turn on or off" slider to off at the end of your actions; the pump will keep running and virtual switch will stay on.

@HouseDadLife Ай бұрын

Sharp eye, you're right, I did end up fixing it later on.