Help with H1 switches automations

Hi folks!

Recently updated many of my switches to be H1 neutral ones, so far so good, except for one thing I was hoping someone could help me based on their experience!

The TLDR is, I have 4x switches, one of which is connected to a light, and the rest control the light via automation.

Let’s call each switch A, B, C and D

My current automation works like the following:

IF A is on, THEN B, C, D turn on.
IF A is off, THEN B, C, D turn off.
IF B is on, then A, C, D turn on
etc.

Reason why I have the automation set like this is because that’s the only way I’ve found for the blue light to work as intended. If I create automations so that any click = main switch on/off, the blue lights just don’t work.

My automation has a big issue, however. There is always a small chance that upon pressing one of the switches, all switches go crazy turning on and off all the time until a minute or two (or until I go to aqara’s app and manually turn these automations off and on again).

Not sure whether I’m causing an issue here, or how to fix…

Ultimately, what I’d like to do is that when hitting one of the switches, the light bulb turns on or off, but also that all H1 switches show the blue light on or off based on whether the bulb is activated or not.

Cheers!

IF A is on(°), B,C,D are off(°°), THEN B, C, D are on. This automation will only work when A is pressed.
If possible, take a screenshot of the automation.

Oh that makes sense!

Out if curiosity,
What about changing the automation from
“When A is on” to “When A turns on” THEN turn ON the rest? That could also fix the issue since there’s no status but rather trigger,l and thus there’s no option for the system to think that the others were turned off whereas in the current case if a switch is slow it might cause that fail loop since it checks that indeed another switch is off. Correct?

EDIT I realise it would still fail as it makes the rest turn off and thus it can make the automation loop back. Will definitely adjust to yours! Big thanks!

Cheers!

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