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Working version 2.27.1 English Dutch French Slovak Danish German Swedish
Working version 2.27.1 English Dutch French Slovak Danish German Swedish

What is a condition?

You can create a condition for controls and devices. This allows you to make a control or a device perform different actions depending on whether the condition is fulfilled or not.

There are four models:

Model

Logic

Illustration

1

If a condition is fulfilled, an action must be performed.

Otherwise nothing happens.

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2

If a condition is fulfilled, an action must be performed.

Otherwise a different action must be performed.

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3

If condition 1 is fulfilled, an action must be performed.

If condition 2 is fulfilled, a different action must be performed.

Otherwise nothing happens.

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4

(for a push button)

If a condition is fulfilled, an action must be performed.

This action will depend on the status of the push button: normal or shift.

More information: see Shift function.

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What controls and devices can you use?

IF

THEN/ELSE

  • status of (virtual) device(s)

  • status of control(s) (except buttons)

  • status of routine(s)

  • time schedule(s)

  • all devices

  • certain possibilities of routines

  • notification (s) (push or informative)

  • controls (see Shift function)

    You can choose to leave THEN or ELSE blank