Virtual Device invalid capability

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Hello guys,

I made simple weather station using ESP8266 Wemos which can measure temperature, humidity, maximum wind speed, wind speed, rainfall…

All of them are triggered to Homey as float. Looks like this:

Homey.trigger("temperatureOut", (float)Temperature);
Homey.trigger("windSpeed", (float)windSpeed);

I created Virtual Device where I can “store” values…its working perfect with Temperature and Humidity but others don’t work. This is how looks my Virtual Device:

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and here is example of flow which doesn’t works.

I get just “invalid capability” error. Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

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replace the “rain” tag with the capability in text.

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Yup, something like measure_rain

List of all capabilities → link

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Sorry to bump a old topic, but this was the only thing I could find. When using the capability in the flow like measure_rain how does the flow know which device to use?

Lets say we have 3 devices that has the capability measure_rain how does Homey knows which one we want to update? Because setting a virtual sensor to update the value does not work and shows the error invalid capability

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The name of the device is in the top of the Card, and you have chosen the card that belongs to the virtual device:

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In my opinion, you are thinking the wrong way around. The virtual sensor is not setting a value, but the value is set to the (capability off) the sensor.

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Look one post up from yours. Or post a screenshot of your flow card.

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Thank you for the reply, after rechecking my flow I see it. Sorry for all the trouble. I have made a Homeyscript that gets a json and put in 1 of the json values to a homey tag. That one I use in a flow that saves the value to a sensor.

I am very new into Homey so again sorry for bumping this old topic.

@robertklep Yes this topic solved my issue because I first tried to save the value to the sensor instead of the capability.

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