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n8henrie / homebridge-rcswitch-gpiomem

Integrate your 433 remote switches into homebridge
MIT License
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Option to repeat x times? #1

Closed irrg closed 8 years ago

irrg commented 8 years ago

Was curious if it'd be an option to repeat the signal a few times? I have a few outlets that aren't always getting the signal.

n8henrie commented 8 years ago

Sure. The original rcswitch code defaults to sending each code 10 times; I'll just expose its setRepeatTransmit method and allow users to increase it if desired.

n8henrie commented 8 years ago

Although note that the code changes will actually be in n8henrie/node-rcswitch-gpiomem; this repo will just have a minor configuration change.

irrg commented 8 years ago

You are the best.

n8henrie commented 8 years ago

Give it a shot and let me know if it helps. It seems to be working for me (takes significantly longer to return when repeats is 100 vs 10 and switches appropriately turn on and off), but I wasn't having a reliability problem in the first place, so it's hard to say for sure.

irrg commented 8 years ago

Sweet, just noticed the new NPM build, will try upgrading soon. I've got 1-2 of the etekcity outlets that are very bad at picking up the 'on'. Oddly enough their 'off' always comes through, so it's really unclear if repeats will help me here. But I figured it was worth a try!

irrg commented 8 years ago

I'm not going to jinx it, but I set repeat to 50 for the one picky outlet and so far success rate is greatly increased! More effect than adding a longer antenna, so I'll take it.

n8henrie commented 8 years ago

Good to hear!