Hi and welcome to the Bome community!
Yes, this tripped me up at first. Basically when you create a virtual port it is is just a pair of ‘endpoints’ that go to nowhere so you have to create routing between the endpoints. Include in this post is a summary of my findings. Usually you want to use a virtual port as a ‘pipe’ and route the input of that port to the output of the same port. Much more complex routings are available, which should be explained in the posting link I provided.
If there is a specific routing you want to try, show me a screen shots of the ports you have created and how that relates to what you want in the way of routing and I can assist further.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
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