Why doesn't routines support the ability to turn on/off thermostats?

Question

If I want a set of thermostats to turn on in the morning and turn off in the afternoon, I was hoping to do that via a routine. However, in the manage routines page for adjusting thermostat, you can only change the set temperature. How would I go about turning on/off thermostats using a routine? Would I need to add the OnOff trait just to get this to show up?

Alternatively, I could use the add action part of routine and make it do "Turn on Ben's thermostat". That could work but what if I have like 5 thermostats, that doesn't seem the way to go. Is there a way to control multiple thermostats in one command? For eg. turn on bens thermostat, kates thermostat and bedroom thermostat.

Answer 1

If there isn't an option in the menu that you would want, you can always manually add commands such as controlling your devices.