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Sian-Lee-SA / Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager

Switch manager is a centralised component to handle button pushes for your wireless switches. This includes anything passed through the event bus. The component relies on switch blueprints which is easily made to allow GUI configuration of your switches and their button pushes. This helps remove clutter from the automations.
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Feature Request: Action layers #120

Closed D3SL closed 1 year ago

D3SL commented 1 year ago

I was thinking about how switch manager feels just like setting up a game controller and realised that the similarities can go both ways. When setting up a steam controller you can define multiple "layers" with different settings or bindings as well as when they're activated. A very common example is changing bindings, gyroscope settings, or sensitivity when a trigger is partially depressed.

I feel like this would intuitively fit with Switch Manager.

For example I have a styrbar near my bed configured as a (basic) remote control for my media center. It would be fantastic if I could switch to a different set of controls to do other things with it, like turn off all the lights if I forgot something and don't want to get out of bed.

I think all that would be needed are the layers themselves, a next/previous control, and a programmatic way to directly active a given layer for a given switch. With that users could use existing systems like automations or node-red if they want state based controls, such as in my case having a media controller if kodi's active or home remote if it's not.

Sian-Lee-SA commented 1 year ago

This is already possible with switch variables or the switch button state variable

The following video will get you started https://youtu.be/m2Rlobvo5cI?t=801