Discussion: should Apex switches just be OFF/AUTO?

[brettonw]

After working with this integration for a week, I find myself having set up a variety of switches where I used an input_boolean and an input_number in pairing to configure the value of an Apex device and then to implement a switch that toggles the Apex switch between OFF and AUTO (i.e. pretty much never ON), because this feels like the desired behavior.

For example, I added an input_boolean for the heater, which I turn OFF during feeding time (because the heater and the thermometer are in different tank chambers and the heater would just turn on and run during feeding time). When I turn the input_boolean on, it sets the Apex heater switch back to AUTO, which enables the temperature program on that switch.

Maybe each HA switch could be configurable whether it turns the Apex switch on, or to auto? Maybe create two switches in the integration? Maybe it's just not a switch?