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 as…

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 incl…

Device Template inheritance

Feature Request

David_Kjendal December 16, 2020, 3:26pm 7

In combination with Request: synchronize devices with recipe this would be an extremely useful capability.

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Device Template inheritance

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