Hello, I’d like to know if there’s a way to “disable” a device. in my case, i want to disable the doors commands when the alarm signal is ON in this way I can prevent to open the doors for mistake thanks

You can disable and enable Flows for this function.

[image] Alberto: prevent to open the doors You can prevent that flows are triggered when a door opens by disabeling the flows as stated above, but you cannot prevent the door from being opened. I assume you meant the flows, or did you want to block the door instead?

Besides the disabling of the “open the door” flows, Maybe something like this for the “Open the door” device: IF “open the door” device is pressed AND alarm state is OFF THEN open door ELSE notification: Door is not opened while alarm state is ON

I mean to disable directly the device

I don’t think that is possible. But, You can “hide” the original devices, and create virtual devices to replace them. Those VD’s then trigger the door open flows. I “hide” devices by moving them to a zone called zz.Zone-do-not-use or 999.do-not-use. This way they should end up below all other zo…

Depends on the device. It is possible to use a flow to disable a device and then reenable it with a different flow. I do this with Hue Sensors

Maybe it helps to know what “device” we are talking about and what “commands” you want to prevent from happening. I am guessing it is more a question for the device manufacturer than it is for the Homey integration. E.g. Homey cannot prevent direct interaction with a device, commands through direct…

It is possible to disable an app and that may do the trick in some situations where the app has only one device. For instance I disable the Tesla app when going on holiday so that Homey stops polling the car.

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Dijker July 28, 2024, 3:30pm 11

Guess duplicate of this request [FeatureRequest] make it possible to disable a device

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