Add a device category/type for rolling shutters

[Pierre-Gilles]

Functional specs

It should be able to be open/close with different levels:

• 0%
• 25% if supported?
• 50%
• 75% if supported?
• 100%

To do

• Imagine a design to simply move the shutters in the UI (Maybe a set of buttons?, or a slide?)
• See how we can supports different types of devices which supports only 2 states (on/off), only 3 states (0-50-100%), only 4 states (0-25-50-100%), only 5....
• How does it work for MQTT users?

@atrovato any opinion on that for the MQTT part ? It was asked by a MQTT user

[atrovato]

Not sure to understand the question, but I think a int 0 - 100 a percent is doing it well. Let me check on Tasmota service if I already defined it.

Dashboard display is another question.

[Pierre-Gilles]

I'm talking about user experience ! It doesn't solve the problem, how do you know on the UI side which percentage the device supports?

I had a feedback of a user which had shutters which only supports 0, 50 et 100%.

So a slider doesn't work, it needs to be like 3 buttons [closed] [50%] [open]

But this is not generic, because as I said another users can have a rolling shutters with another configuration.

The question is how to make this easy to specify for the user

[Pierre-Gilles]

I'm thinking about it 😃

[Pierre-Gilles]

When thinking about it, it's maybe more a general question : how do we handle devices with specific functions ?

For example devices with multi-states button ? (0, 1, 2)

How do we define them in an "open" services like MQTT ?

[atrovato]

What about a [ up | stop | down ] swith?

[Pierre-Gilles]

It's not the question ! How do you know that the roller shutter supports up / stop / down ?

The question is : Right now in Gladys, we only handle a simple type in the UI : On/Off.

How do we handle multi-state types ?

• How do we represent them in DB ?
• How does the service tells Gladys "My device supports this, this and this". ?
• How do we handle service like MQTT where it's the user which defines the device ?

[atrovato]

I think we can have a look to other existing platforms to handle new device types

https://developers.google.com/assistant/smarthome/guides/shutter

https://smartthings.developer.samsung.com/docs/api-ref/capabilities.html

For Google, shutter is a percent and a direction, so an integer 0 - 100 can do the job for us. With a new device feature SHUTTER / OPEN (?).

So a simple setValue with int on this feature will do the job. But UI is another topic.

[Pierre-Gilles]

Let's talk about it here : https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gestion-des-volets-roulants/5693

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[Pierre-Gilles]

Ok closing this as it's a feature request, and we were already talking about it on the forum.