I’m struggling to enable the automation of a switch on a device in my free account.
My Developer mode is turned on.
According to General_settings->Roles and permissions → Organizations → Automations, I do have permissions to “Create, edit, view, delete, execute”, Automations, but no permissions to “manage automation templates”
According to the documentation, automations can’t be used until one of the datastreams has a condition/action option turned on. However, in order to do that you need to manage the automation templates. This seems like a catch 22.
Are automations available on free accounts? Perhaps I’ve misunderstood something.
No, Manage Automation Templates is something different.
You need to manage the template and go to Developer Zone > My Templates then choose one of your templates.
You then need to edit the template and on one of the datastreams you need to choose whether you want the datastream value to be used as a condition in your automation, or be controlled by an action in the automation (or both).
Don’t forget to Save before you exit.
It helps if you have a proper plan for what you want your automation to do when you create your datastreams in your template, as the variable type will affect what the datastream can be used for in the automation.
Let’s say you have one datastream that is a float type and is used for temperature, and is enabled as a condition for automations.
Then you have another datastream that will control a relay and is an integer and enabled as an action in the datastream.
Once you’ve done this, you’ll be able to create an automation and a rule that says “if temperature is less than x, turn relay on”.
Pete.
oh yes thank you - that worked perfectly. My mistake was clicking on my device when I got to the templates menu whereas I should have clicked on the “datastreams” tab from the vertical column and proceeded from there. Thank you again.
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