I have a Hubitat setup with a “parent” device. The parent device (which represents a DSC alarm panel), has a number of “virtual buttons”, which when “pushed” set something in the alarm.
For example, there is a button called “arm”, which when “pushed” sets the alarm to “ARMED” mode.
How do I do that in SharpTools?
Do I use a Hero layout and just show one attribute?
Do I use it like a switch, to send a “push” to Hubitat?
Thanks for posting, Jack! Am I understanding correctly that the ‘virtual buttons’ are child devices that implement the ‘Momentary’ capability and thus have push() commands on them?
PS. Some button / momentary devices also act like a switch that automatically turns itself off. If that’s the case with your device, then you could just add the switch directly to your dashboard.
We plan on adding a dedicated tile for ‘Momentary’ devices, but in the meantime the best way is to create a rule in the SharpTools Rule Engine which has a single action of push() for your desired device.
Then you can add that rule directly to your dashboard as a tile and it will send the push() command when you press it.
