I have a virtual group device containing all my door and window sensors. This makes is really easy to check whether everything is closed and locked when it should be. I also have a variable which tracks whether the back door is locked (vs, open/closed, which is tracked by a Z wave door sensor). I'll ignore for now how that variable gets updated because it's not significant here.
At the moment whenever I check everything's closed and locked, I have to check both the virtual group device and the variable. Since I do that in quite a few different places I thought "I could simplify that check" so I created a virtual on/off device for the back door lock, then created action groups to control it turning on,off and toggling. So far so good, all works fine. Then I went to include that virtual on/off device within the virtual group device (which was my cunning simplification, see?). No dice. The virtual on/off device, despite clearly being an on/off device, doesn't show up in the list of possible on/off devices when editing a virtual group device.
Is this by design? Any chance this could be changed?
Thanks,
Jon