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[basai]

Howdy,

My goal is to have a rule that when triggered will disable other certain pre-defined rule sets, but I can't seem to find a way to do it in MSR. Is it possible?

In the MSR UI, rule sets are toggled manually to be enabled (green) and disabled (red). I would like to do this from within a rule.

Running MSR version latest-22274-24dfd72c

TIA,
-bh

[Pabla]

@basai to my knowledge that isn’t possible at the moment. However you could work out a way around this, post your rules and actions and let’s see.

[therealdb]

@basai that's achievable with a global variable, that you'll use as a constraint to prevent the execution of your rulesets.
That's what I'm doing with party, mute or winter variables, used to prevent rules from running under certain circumstances.

[toggledbits]

You could also just use another rule, tested by a Rule State condition, or a virtual switch or binary sensor, etc.

[basai]

Thank you all for your responses, you are an awesome bunch in this group and I have what I was looking for.

Essentially toggling a rule as active or inactive can only be done manually, so I wasn't going crazy because this was something I could do in the Vera Reactor to another Reactor

I have been using toggles in HAAS to toggle a state which I include as a 'constraint' within multiple MSR rules which works.

What I was looking for is more of a 'kill switch’ to completely disable a rule or set of rules for reasons that come up from time to time where I manually disable them so there is no chance of them running. Not a show stopper by any means.

Thanks again,
-b

[gwp1]

@basai My approach to this has been to set a rule to determine a "thing" or "state". I then "turn on/off" other rules by looking at the status of that rule.

Example:

Ruleset: is temp below 40º? True for <40º, False for >40º
Ruleset: do this thing if ruleset "is temp below 40º" is true (or false.)