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Addition of time based valve, similar to time based cover #2720

Open balk77 opened 1 month ago

balk77 commented 1 month ago

I am using a valve with 3 wires: 2 wires to control direction and a common neutral. Powering one wire turns the motor one way, power on the other turns the other way. I am using a Sonoff Dual to control the wires. The current setup is using time based cover; it takes 16 seconds to close or open in my case; the component estimates the position based on run time. Of course there is some drift but that does not really matter; valve is closed every now and then to reset the position.

It would be nice to have a time based valve component as well; I guess that there are more valves out there that work on this principle (more than there are affordable valves with true position feedback).

nagyrobi commented 1 month ago

@kbx81 :)

kraus-wagner commented 1 month ago

I would really appreciate that too. I control a heating mixer valve. The running time is 2 minutes in each direction.