What should happen if I have the same key configured twice?

Discussion & Questions
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I have a small external macro-keypad which is configured as a "Generic Device" (I just found it worked better that way).

I have key5 of the keypad configured to perform one action at the Global scope, and the same key configured to perform a different action assigned to a specific application. The Global scope action seems to take precedence over the application scope. Is that expected?

I wasn't sure if BTT supported a form of "cascading scope" - so that if the same key was assigned twice, Global would be used unless a specific application also had the same key configured - in which case, assuming I was using the specified application, the action for the application would be used instead of the global one.

Thanks

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As far as I know, no. The global trigger works in all apps, unless this trigger is also assigned only to one app. In this case the app-specific action is executed.

Similar apps like BTT also produce a conflict between global and app-specific triggers, which doesn't seem very useful to me.

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Yes like Frank1 said, App Specific triggers will always override globally defined ones (if the app is the active app) because they are more specific.

I just confirmed that this is working for generic devices.

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Thanks both - it is today working as expected:

IF global THEN key5 does THIS, ELSE IF the specified app is active THEN key5 does THAT.

Wasn't happening on Friday, perhaps a restart of something helped. :slight_smile: