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dxdc / homebridge-blinds

:sunrise: Homebridge Plugin to control my blinds over HTTP
https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-blinds
ISC License
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Position bookmarks #39

Closed RCdiy closed 4 years ago

RCdiy commented 4 years ago

Would be cool. Like the bond plugin have the ability to open to 1, 2, 3, 4 (pick the limit you want to implement. User sets where those positions are. Either in the settings UI or using a remember this position 1 button. If doing up to 4 then maybe defaults 20% 40% 60% 80% Maybe there

dxdc commented 4 years ago

@RCdiy "Scenes" (built into Homekit) can do this already. Just define what scenes you'd like to use and you can click on each blind and customize it at whatever % you like.

RCdiy commented 4 years ago

Well the bond plugin did it which is why I said cool to have. The whole point of all of this is to reduce what user needs to do.

dxdc commented 4 years ago

Well the bond plugin did it which is why I said cool to have. The whole point of all of this is to reduce what user needs to do.

Agreed, but even if we were to add a special "bond-only" part of the configuration where the plugin will scan your existing devices, the problem goes deeper than that.

You need to define how long your blinds take to go from top to bottom for the plugin to work properly. Most blinds remotes just offer an up/down control, but homekit allows the user the ability to customize the percentage and this plugin replicates that.

The bond plugin can't know that timeframe either... which I suspect, in part, may be the reason that it hasn't been incorporated into homebridge-bond