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KhaosT / homebridge-amazondash

Amazon Dash Button plugin for Homebridge
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10.3 Beta #13

Closed samsonrosen closed 7 years ago

samsonrosen commented 7 years ago

Hello!

Apple released a beta of 10.3 which is said to support programmable light switches.

What does that entail for the future of this plugin? Exciting stuff!

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

Basically iOS 10.3 allows you to setup trigger with programmable switches using Home app instead of third party app. It doesn't provide "extra" functionality.

samsonrosen commented 7 years ago

So is this different to using automations

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

No it's the same thing... you can already setup automation with programmable switches before iOS 10.3 with most of third party apps.

samsonrosen commented 7 years ago

But within the iOS Home app, this will be an improvement on 'Automations'.

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

lol not really, they picked the most awkward way to do support for programmable switch. You can try that in beta now 🙃

mbeck94 commented 7 years ago

Using 10.3 Beta here, having issues with 2 clicks being recognized with each press, one arp and one udp

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

Due to the way how the plugin detect the press event on the dash button, it's not possible to detect double press with dash button.

mbeck94 commented 7 years ago

Correct, however, its making it impossible to use single click functionality too, since each press is recognized as two

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

About that… Apple changed characteristic enum definition on iOS 10.3 without telling anyone in advance. Before 10.3, value 0 meaning not pressed and value 1 meaning pressed. Now they redefined 0 as single press and 1 as double press. For now if you really want to use Home app to set up programmable switches, just set double press event and ignore the single press one.

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mbeck94 commented 7 years ago

I came to that realization right after submitting that comment, to just use the double press. Would there be a way to ignore either the arp or udp? Or is that not possible?

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

Ignore what?

mbeck94 commented 7 years ago

Sorry, I'm new to this. Is there a way to have the plugin only register arp OR udp protocols? Not both?

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

This one only uses arp event to detect the press.

samsonrosen commented 7 years ago

Hi @KhaosT!

I just installed the 10.3 BETA and setup this plugin. The customisation within the Home app definitely works!

Do you have any advice for utilising the Amazon Dash as a light switch? On/Off? I can only get it to turn the lights 'on' right now.

Also, I get a fair delay for the trigger to actually happen. e.g sitting in my room in darkness looking sad whilst I await light. Is that expected behaviour?

KhaosT commented 7 years ago

@samsonrosen "Do you have any advice for utilising the Amazon Dash as a light switch? On/Off? I can only get it to turn the lights 'on' right now", try to setup two triggers guarded by condition of the light (you have to use Eve or Hesperus app to create trigger with conditions).

About the delay, yes.

samsonrosen commented 7 years ago

@KhaosT Thanks for your fast responses as usual!