jake wrote: Wednesday 14 February 2018 13:38 A workaround is to let your script set a variable (or dzVents: persistent data), which you can check when you manually switch. In that case there will be no update of the variable

Thanks, I've got something working now using this method.

Do you know if there is a workaround for this earlier version of dzvents?

Ah, that must be it. I'm on:

Domoticz 3.8153
Dzvents 2.2.0

and silent() was added in 2.3.0.

I did check for updates but it says there are none available. It might be because I'm running on a synoloy.

Thanks for the fast reply. I'm sorry I missed that section of the docs before.

I've tried appending the silent command to the switchOn() function:
domoticz.devices(dev .. ' Radiator').switchOn().silent()

but it crashes with the error:
attempt to call field 'silent' (a nil value)

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