Add ability to toggle the light or check its status?

[andrewheiss]

Thanks for this tool! It makes working with the Litra so much easier!

I'm interested in using the CLI command to toggle the light with a global keyboard shortcut (like with Raycast or Alfred on macOS).

Right now, I have two separate shell script wrappers: one to run lcli on and one to run lcli off. There is no lcli toggle option (or equivalent) command, so I tried to create conditional logic within a shell script, looking at the output to determine if the previous command turned the light on or off, but the message is the same for both commands:

❯ lcli on
10:48AM DBG Found device Litra Glow

❯ lcli off
10:48AM DBG Found device Litra Glow

Is there a way to get the current status of the light for working with conditional logic in other applications?

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Or more simply, I'd love to be able to use one of these approaches:

• Native toggling support: Something like lcli toggle, where lcli handles the conditional parts of checking if the light is on/off and doing the reverse

• Light status: Something like lcli status where lcli emits diagnostic information about what the light is doing. Perhaps something like this?

  When off:

  ❯ lcli status
  10:14AM DBG Found device Litra Glow:
  
  - Status: off

  When on:

  ❯ lcli status
  10:14AM DBG Found device Litra Glow:
  
  - Status: on
  - Brightness: 80
  - Temperature: 5500

[kharyam]

The utility can't read the current state of the light from the device, however some state information is stored in a config file as the utility is used (i.e., preset settings and current settings for brightness and temp). It doesn't track the on/off state, but it can be added and used to implement a toggle function.