Dummy Device

You can use a special dummy device within ESP Easy to provide additional features to the rules engine. A dummy device contains all four sensor values that can be used as variables to store custom numerical data. (floating point values, like 123.50)

The dummy device can be used like any other sensor to send it's data to the Home Automation controller. But this is not mandatory if you only want to use it within your own rules section.

The dummy device has it's own special command to set values from rules:

TaskValueSet <task nr>,<taskvalue nr>,<value|formula>

An example:

You run your dummy device from task number 3 and the first value should contain something calculated from a temperature sensor labeled "Outdoor":

 TaskValueSet 3,1,[Outdoor#Temperature]-10

Note: You can use multiple Dummy devices if needed!