Conditionally Turning On Devices in a Activity

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Hey everyone,

Looking into conditionally turning on/off a device when switching activity.

My use case is for a tube amp with warm-up time. I use it for music playback as well as for my home theater front speakers. So when I switch from music to movies or vice versa I don’t want my tube amp to switch on/off, as it will go again through the warm-up delay.

TIA, appreciate your help.

Z

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Both activities in same activity group? Has amp separate commands for power on/off? If not copy the power toggle to 2 new command POWER_ON and POWER_OFF and use the command in start/end sequences.

Ralf

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You could include the tube amp entity in all of your activities (whether required or not) and set it to power on in the on sequence and off in the off sequence again for all activities. That way even with all devices in the same activity group it will stay on when you change activities and only switch off when you hit the power off button. I do this for a viewport switch I use to look at all of my security cameras so I dont have to wait for the streams to load when I select that activity. Works well.

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Nice, didn’t catch up to that, HA :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the quick reaction :slight_smile: