I needed a new feature...
I figured out I got a problem when replacing all my remaining ARC devices into AC device types including existing ARC remote controls.
The web pages I built for my home automation is using web sockets and they were suddenly messed up.
This was due to the fact that each AC remote control has its own unique address and you can't change that. Without diving into the details, I thought it would be handy if it was somehow possible to map one or more remote control addresses into a single common one (so that a number of remotes could be used but the web page system would still see all of them just as one single remote). This would allow you to have a number of AC remotes with different addresses lying around but they would all just behave like clones...
So in the new version, published in the first post, there is a new action available called 'remote_address_Mapper'. The configuration view looks typically like this:
When you save the configuration, the mapping is added. From then on, when an event from an AC remote control with the originating address is incoming, it will be mapped to the replacement address when broad-casted via web sockets.
If you run the action, the designated mapping will be deleted.
I think the mapping will also work with other types of AC transmitting devices like push buttons, infrared and magnetic sensors but so far, I haven't tried that.
Enjoy and please report back if you find any issue/bug
Happy New Year,
Walter