jeff-winn / homebridge-automower-platform

A platform plugin for Homebridge to connect your Husqvarna Automower and Gardena Smart robotic lawn mowers to Apple HomeKit.
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Services are ordered weirdly in the Home app #187

Closed jeff-winn closed 1 year ago

jeff-winn commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe: As a user while I am using the Home app the order of the services always puts a contact sensor or motion sensor on top of the button that actually turns it on or off when they’re all grouped together.

Describe the solution you'd like: It would be nice if the switch to turn the mower on was on top rather than always having to open the group to turn it on/off.

Describe alternatives you've considered: Right now it just leaves everything at random so each user likely has a slightly different experience.

Additional context: ebaauw mentioned on discord that using the service label index will let the dev manually control ordering the services.

jeff-winn commented 1 year ago

After investigating, this will likely be a breaking change to anyone with existing mowers already registered and will need intervention to remove them so they can be reattached.

jeff-winn commented 1 year ago

The characteristics in question are:

jeff-winn commented 1 year ago

For reference, it was kinda annoying me but I also ran across the following post on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/vo66y6/when_you_have_multiple_accessories_grouped_into_a/

Basically asking the exact same thing as I have been.

jeff-winn commented 1 year ago

There's nothing I can actually do to keep this corrected, even if I do this the minute they change how they're displaying Apple will take over control and do what they want anyway overriding what I've done.