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Hello there,

If this is the wrong place to ask for this, please remove my post.

I play quite a lot with dummy devices and I miss the following types

binary sensor (yes, you can use the switch but that is somewhat limiting and can be accidentally switched)
thermostat (as the multlevel-switch can only increment in integer values and can't set e.g. 20.5)

In case it's not too much work, that would be great, thanks.

Best regards,
rws

CodeDevice is what you need

almost. I already looked at that, but the codedevice expects to poll something to aquire a value, the dummy on the other hand does not.

If I set my code device binary sensor to "off" and want to push the value from a script or e.g. the mqtt plugin, that doesn't work.

Regarding the code device for multilevel switch, I can't emulate a Thermostat with that, it doesn't get me further than the dummy device for multilevel switch, so no benefit here as well.

If you set polling time to 0, then no polling code will be executed. And then you can use vDev.set("metrics:level", XXX) to set the value explicitly

Thanks but the MQTT Plugin doesn't seem to do this, I tried exactly what you suggested prior to giving feedback. I would have to program my very own MQTT listener. Sounds a bit challenging for now, I try to look into it