confused about setState - can more information be provided?

[ghost]

Im totally confused about the usage of setState. How do i send an outbound command to the ESP to toggle a switch? The example provided is unfortunately very vague.

I have tried for hours to get it to work in various ways but at best only got all Switches to toggle at the same. I added each entity to an array set as a listener for an event emitter but this never worked properly.

What is the way to send a state change to the ESP board outside of the "entity.on" code block?

can you please provide a functioning example? are event emitters even required for this?

[samhunt]

@thwerks setState was not implemented on every entity, so instead I have been using entity.connection.<entityType>CommandService to update the states of my entities.
An example of this would be:

entity.connection.switchCommandService({ key: entity.id, state: true /*on*/ });

which should also translate to the below for your switch (but i don't have a device to test this on)

entity.setState(connection, { key: entity.id, state: true /*on*/ });

[ghost]

Awesome, Finally, i was really excited to press further with this. Thanks for that, ill check it out next time this comes up in the lab. Much appreciated.