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phenotypic / homebridge-web-thermostat

Homebridge plugin for a web-based thermostat
MIT License
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Fan support #3

Closed augustozanellato closed 5 years ago

augustozanellato commented 5 years ago

What about adding fan control support similar to this zoltanhosszu/homebridge-web-thermostat. It's a fork of your project, but I think you could pull in that changes and make the fan control section optional.

phenotypic commented 5 years ago

That fork does not expose a Thermostat service as my plugin does. Instead, it exposes a HeaterCooler service.

Please look at the HomeKit specification, you will see that under the Thermostat service there are no characteristics that can be exposed relating to fan control and thus there is nothing I can do to this plugin to add the functionality you are describing.

As for the HeaterCooler service, you can see that there are indeed characteristics that relate to fan control. However, my plugin serves my needs and I have no incentive / extra free time at the moment to develop a HeaterCooler plugin from scratch. Of course, you are more than welcome to create your own plugin which exposes your desired characteristics.