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ebaauw / homebridge-rpi

Homebridge plugin for Raspberry Pi.
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Feature Request: Increase Switch Pulse max to 60000 #53

Closed mikebannan closed 4 years ago

mikebannan commented 4 years ago

I'm using RPi to activate the motor on a TV lift. This lift takes 25 seconds to complete.

(I'm actually running through relays to close an Up switch or a Down switch, to soldered leads on the Up and Down buttons on the motor controller. There are physical cut-off switches to kill the motor when the lift reaches full up/down.)

Since the RPi Switch device only has a 5-second max Pulse, I'm solving it with homebridge-delay-switch to trigger a timer automation to set the RPi Switch to OFF after 25 seconds. Having a 25-second Pulse would be way less complicated.

ebaauw commented 4 years ago

That's not what a switch pulse is for. You want to use a valve device with Duration set from HomeKit.

mikebannan commented 4 years ago

The minimum Default Run Time on a Valve in the Home app is 5 minutes. I was hoping for something much shorter.

ebaauw commented 4 years ago

That’s a limitation of the Home app. Use Eve or another HomeKit app.

mikebannan commented 4 years ago

Got it. Thanks!