Combine Status of Multiple Sensors

[josh]

You can use a rule to aggregate the status of multiple Things into a variable (or virtual thing).

@just_jake

If sensor 1 == closed and sensor 2 == open then Set tile.color = Red.

If sensor 1 == open and sensor 2 == Closed then Set tile.color = Green.

If sensor 1 == open and sensor 2 == open then Set tile.color = Yellow.

Using that concept, the rule might be something like:

Triggers:

Contact1 changes to "open"
Contact1 changes to "closed"
Contact2 changes to "open"
Contact2 changes to "closed"

Flow:

IF (contact1 == "closed" AND contact2 is "open")
THEN 
   Set $doorState = "closed"

IF (contact1 == "open" AND contact2 is "closed")
THEN 
   Set $doorState = "open"

IF (contact1 == "open" AND contact2 is "open")
THEN 
   Set $doorState = "partially open"

IF (contact1 == "closed" AND contact2 is "closed")
THEN 
   Set $doorState = "sensor error"

(Just an example without knowing the intricacies of your setup, but you could adapt as needed)

Then you would add the variable to your dashboard and you could style it based on your known combined states. You could set the tile’s action to Hyperlink and use the $.runRule() syntax to trigger whatever actions you wanted (in a separate rule).