Feature suggestion: More feature switcher

nt0xa / homebridge-mi-humidifier

A Xiaomi Mi humidifier plugin for Homebridge

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Feature suggestion: More feature switcher #102

Open MoienBowen opened 3 years ago

MoienBowen commented 3 years ago

Hi russtone, thanks a lot for your repo.

At the moment, I don't want to rely on the device's own regulation mode, but want to link it with other devices in the house, so I set disableTargetHumidity to true. However, that brings the following issues:

In the Home app, the information is missing : Rising to (blank)
In the device interface, there are fan speed, Oscillate, a main switcher, and the other I do not even know what is it...

Regarding the second point, could you please:

combine the main switcher and fan speed switcher
add a parameter to hide and set Oscillate (but is there such function for ca4?)
verify the necessity and function of the third switcher

Thanks in advance.

nt0xa commented 3 years ago

Hey @n00d1e5,

Unfortunately, I can't influence on how the device controls are displayed in Home.app. Controls are generated automatically based characteristics supported by device (here is the list of characteristics available for humidifiers https://developers.homebridge.io/#/service/HumidifierDehumidifier). The only thing I can do is to add ability to disable some characteristics, but this could lead to problems like "Rising to (blank)" text in app.

Oscillate switcher in ca4 enables/disables "Dry mode". This was done to not to add separate switch device just to control "Dry mode".

MoienBowen commented 2 years ago

Hello again, hope all is well with you.

I now fully understood the blank text case. I still have two suggestions:

Could you please add one option autoModeAlwasysOn, which means that the humidifier will always switch to auto mode in the place of level 1,2,3.
Could you add one option to show/hide the level switcher, here is an example https://github.com/pschroeder89/homebridge-levoit-humidifiers

MoienBowen commented 2 years ago

Hello again, I think that I finally understood why I do not have such feature like fun speed.

Under two different settings: 1) ledBulb enable + Show as separate tiles 2) ledBulb disable

Long press the humidifier in 1), there are switches for child lock, oscillate, fan speed, and information like current relative humidity, water level. And if you long press the humidifier in 2), you can find that almost all information and switch disappeared.

Could you please check if it is possible to keep the same feature for 2)? Thanks.