Home Security On/Off Switch

[dj1635 (Dereck)]

Hi all, I’m pretty new to openhab2 and am lost on where to start. I am wanting to have a switch in the UI that would be the home security ON/OFF switch. The thing I am not getting is how to create a switch item that isn’t related to a physical device. This switch would act more like a variable and if that variable changes then I would have rules that would turn on the security features on door sensors/camera . so my question is, how do i go about doing this or is there any tutorials out there that would help point me in the right direction?

[Oli (Oliver Stenzel)]

This could be just what you’re looking for:

Design Pattern: Proxy Item

Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them for information on what a DP is and how to use them. Problem Statement Often one faces one or more of the following situations: the need to perform additional logic before sending a command to a device the need to send a command to multiple devices based on a single event the need to do something different based on the state of one or more other Items the channel to update the state of an Item and the channel to send c…

[michael_sutter]

Hello Dereck

Read also The link to “virtual switches” (sorry, Im writing on my mobile).
I guess its exactly what you are looking for.