Disable/enable Reactor sensor via Luup code

Plugins & Plugin Development Reactor
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Hi Patrick,

The closest thing that I see on the topic is at the following link: https://community.getvera.com/t/trip-reactor-sensor-via-luup-request/207700

I’m trying to disable, or enable a given sensor via http calls. The idea is to create a virtual switch that will be visible to Alexa, which will send the appropriate call to the sensor depending on the state of the switch (and the sensor itself).

I imagine this is easy, but I did not want to assume anything before hacking away.

Thanks

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If you are trying to enable and disable activities, the best way is to use a virtual switch and include it in the logic as a gating condition (i.e. the switch has to be on or off as you choose for the group/groups to be true and run their activities).

You can enable and disable the entire RS, using device actions referred to in the documentation. I don’t recommend it. Disabling/enabling the RS erases its condition state history and other data, running the RS as if it has never run before — it does an implicit Restart — and that can have side-effects in the way some logic is structured.

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Ok, that will work, and I’m glad I asked as I was unaware of the state history loss involved with disabling.

Thanks