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[ubeaut (Greg)]

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[SOLVED] Rules with timers or virtual/dummy switches

If you are not a programmer and just want to point and click then virtual dummy switch should work. The issue you are having with z-wave is the metadata timer is reset every time z-wave updates. To get around that problem you use a virtual switch which will not be affected by the z-wave updates. You would need a rule to turn the virtual switch on when the z-wave was set to on. The another rule to turn turn the z-wave off when the virtual switch was turned off. The metadata timer is set in th…

It uses virtual switch because the real item gets updated and resets the timer.