It would be very useful to allow inheritance of Device Templates (ideally multiple parents, but at least one). This would make it much easier to create basic devices with a base/common attribute set if it changes have it flow automatically to children.
Hey @David_Kjendal,
Thanks for reaching out, and welcome to the Losant Forums!
This is a great idea, but to make sure I understand what you mean (and please correct me if I am wrong), you’re looking for children devices to inherit attributes from their parent devices?
In Device Recipes you can assign a Parent device in that recipe so that when you create a device from that recipe, that device will automatically be a child of that parent.
Please let me know if I understand your request correctly.
Thank you,
Heath
What I’m talking about is purely related to device recipes. I’ve used the the device parent/child relationship (and it’s obviously important that the parent and child have some overlapping set of attributes). But I always create new devices from recipes, so I would like a “parent” recipe that includes all the common attributes and the “child” recipe would only contain attributes not present in the parent.
As I said, in a perfect world the child could have >1 parent.
My use case would be something like this:
I have a generic “environmental” sensor which always has Temperature and Humidity - so I want a recipe for that. But i have 2 enhanced sensor types, which have those attributes, but one adds pressure and the other light detection. So I want recipes for those that share the base T & H. When I create them by hand, its prone to spelling mistakes, etc for the attributes (obviously this is a simple version, but there are complex use cases). This is really helpful with system devices as well, which aggregate multiple sensor types together (i.e. the system is a room, with different kinds of sensors), inheriting the attributes in the templates of the possible sensor recipes is what would make it much easier.
In combination with Request: synchronize devices with recipe this would be an extremely useful capability.
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