[APP][Pro] Bridgekeeper - Shield your devices from automation (manual override) and more

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Hi everyone,

I am a brand new Homey user and developer. I’ve developed a new app called Bridgekeeper and I’m looking for testers.

I wrote Bridgekeeper to address the need for manually overriding automation. It supports a Shield device driver that can shield a peer device from cooperating animation. For example, lighting automation that turns off the light when I don’t want it to can be manually overridden by physical interaction with the light switch to turn it back on.

Along the way it was simple enough to add a Clone device driver that creates a virtual clone of a peer and a Link device driver that can be used to make a device (virtually) appear to be in multiple zones.

Thanks for your support!

Bridgekeeper provides Clone, Link and Shield virtual device drivers.
Each such virtual device

  • Is paired with a user-selected peer device.
  • Assumes the class and system capabilities of its peer.
  • Remembers its peer to bridge the flow of capability values.
  • Copies the values from its peer when first added.

Clone

  • Behaves as a virtual device just like its peer but detached from it.

Link

  • Allows capability values to flow freely to and from its peer.
  • May appear in a different zone than its peer.
  • Allows a door sensor between two zones to trigger activity in each.

Shield

  • Shields its peer from cooperating automation.
  • Allows values to flow to its peer only when the shield is off.
  • Copies values from its peer when the shield is toggled.
  • Provides shielding mechanism but not shielding policy.

Shielding policy is supported by

  • Listening for peer value changes.
  • Publishing capabilities that have drifted.
  • Triggering policy flows on capability drift.

Shield example

Manually override Light automation by physical interaction with its onoff switch.
Rewrite automation such as this

  • When Light’s zone is active/inactive, Then turn on/off Light

as

  • When Light’s zone is active/inactive, Then turn on/off Light Shield
  • When Light Shield onoff drift is detected, Then toggle shield on or off.

where Light is Light Shield’s peer.

Can a device appear in multiple zones?