great
more than one way to skin a cat

i appreciate that but what i am really interested in is finding where that and others are defined in domoticz

and where would i find specs for a switch of type smoke detector

very good reading
thanks

that what i needed
thanks

where can i find what the required inputs are for virtual sensors
for example i create a temperature sensor
i know the idx is required but what other inputs
i eventually found that it wants the temperature in svalue
but where is the info for all the other sensors