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[James]

@Ryan_Mclellan, you can find the brief Variable introduction in the post below.

Variables for Rules and Dashboards!

We’re excited to announce the next SharpTools.io release which brings basic support for Variables to SharpTools! Variables are a neat way to store custom values that you can use in Dashboards and the Rule Engine. Variables are a Premium only feature. If you are using the free tier, please let us know if you’d like us to reset your trial. [Variables!] Supported variable types include: Text Numbers True/False Variables in Rule Engine The Rule Engine includes support for …

I have a few rules aggregating my sensors’ battery status or door open/close states into variable, and I have the variable as tile in the dashboard as @Chris_C mentioned to give me the high level idea if something is not right, and I can tap the variable tile to go to the other dashboard for more detailed view. Here are some quick steps to get you started, and feel free to post your rule screenshot if you need some help.

1. Create a True/False variable
   

   

   

2. Create a rule to aggregate doors’ status

   • Trigger: (to be triggered when any of the doors’ state changed)
     • when front door is changed to open
     • when front door is changed to closed
     • when back door is changed to open
     • when back door is changed to closed
   • Flow:
     • If front door is open OR back door is open, then set $anyDoorOpen variable to True, else set it to False

3. Add this variable to the dashboard and conifgure the tap action to open hyperlink with the URL to the other dashboard page.