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Nest plugin for HomeBridge
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Add support for labels on thermostats #542

Closed charlieoleary closed 2 years ago

charlieoleary commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If you have multiple Nest Thermostats the where_name is used to convey a general location (ex. 1F, 2F, 3F, etc.) and a label is used to convey the specific location (ex. Living Room, Bedroom, etc.). Currently, this project only uses where_name, so if you have multiple thermostats on a floor, they all appear as 1F instead of 1F Living Room.

Describe the solution you'd like Instead of only using where_name, append the label to it if present. For example, 1F Temperature would become 1F Living Room Temperature.

Describe alternatives you've considered I am not sure if it's still available, but the original Nest API provided a name_long value which contained the where_name and the label if present (1F (Living Room)). While I think the name looks better without the parenthesis depending on how your home is structured, this might be faster to implement if available.

Additional context I considered swapping values and use the where_name as the room and the label as the floor, but unfortunately the Nest app groups by where_name and not label and will aggregate the temperature across all devices using the where_name grouping. This means that if you swap them, you lose a lot of value and end up with a significant number of nest groups.

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