Hi, I think I run into a problem where I miss some fundamental conceptual understanding. I have been using OpenHab 2 for a while and I’m happy with it. I bought a new Zigbee inwall switch, which is connected to a physical switch. The attached light switches on and off when I use the physical but…

I suppose you could look in the docs [image] Items a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home Or see if any other users have ever done such a thing [image] Two switches one light eg. staircase switch…

This might help with concepts, from a few minutes ago. You can ignore the KNX part, that option is not available for zigbee. [image] Redirect received value to other channel Items & Sitemaps In general, Item commands are passed to devices by bindings. Device …

Thanks I’ll read that topic [image] rossko57: I’ll bet it does not - no command for poking pysical switch. It does, even the item in the sitemap gets updated to the switch state

Logs when using the sitemap: 2020-10-24 12:53:02.006 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'sRearOutdoorLights' received command ON 2020-10-24 12:53:02.035 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - sRearOutdoorLights predicted to become ON 2020-10-24 12:53:02.083 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - sRearOutdoorLight…

Okeydoke, thats great. As you can see no command is generated by poking at the physical device, as expected. Difference between Item commands and state updates crucial here. There is no sign of any attempt at cross-linking in what you have shown us.

So, how do I make that work then… What concept am I missing?

You’ll want an update of your “master” device to issue a command to your “slave” Item. A rule triggered from change of master Item would be straightforward. Or you do it with a follow profile. Add the master channel to your slave Item as well, but using a follow profile. This will listen for upda…

And where would I configure this follow profile, this does sound what I want.

Physical Switch behaves different from Item, conceptual problem

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rossko57 (Rossko57) October 24, 2020, 10:40am 6

Copy-paste the relevant lines from your events.log
Tell us what you did for that sample, e.g. poked UI or physical device.
A sample of both would be good.
Enclosing in code fences would be helpful