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[Feature] More Fan Speeds #39

Open ErratikMantis opened 11 months ago

ErratikMantis commented 11 months ago

I have succesfully prototyped and tested an ESP with Arduino and a 433MHz transmitter to control my 'dumb' fan. Controlled with Sinric and google home.

My fan has 6 fan speeds, thus, I cannot controll with the full breadth of my fans settings with the current "Fan" setup in Sinric. It also has: Stop, reverse, and a light. I have implmented light functionality as a second sinric device, and the stop function is with Sinric "Fan off".

Additional Fan speeds is the priority. Having light functionality built in would be nice. Im not fussed about the reverse. I suspect adding the additional fan speed support for Sinric is not much of a task.

ps. Currently, Im just using fan speed 2, 4, and 6 with Sinric, 1, 2, and 3.

Thank you for your consideration.

kakopappa commented 11 months ago

Hi @ErratikMantis

Thank you for your input. We will improve the fan speed settings in the future (let the user define speed levels).

Another option is to use create a custom device type. Then you can use 6 fan speeds, reverse, and a light in a single device. https://help.sinric.pro/pages/custom-templates. .

FYI: Alexa support custom device types but Google Home does not (limitation from GH)

ErratikMantis commented 11 months ago

Hi @kakopappa,

Thanks for the promt response. No support for google home is really not viable.

Looking foward to seeing more fan speeds added. Is there any timeline you could throw out?

Thanks again!

kakopappa commented 11 months ago

needs to change Portal, Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings, and the Sinric Pro app to make sure it's consistent. If possible will plan it in the next release. I will update this issue when it's available in the production system.

ErratikMantis commented 11 months ago

Fantastic. Thanks again.

Looking forward. To making more use of sinric in other projects in the future also.

I must say, from the Arduino library, to the online interface, to the Google home integration, it was seamless. I have never had such an easy time getting a library to work, not to mention when it's going through a wifi chip and google.

Congratulations on such a well put together product!

kakopappa commented 10 months ago

Will be release tomorrow to production

kakopappa commented 10 months ago

Done. Please give it a try when you get a chance.

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ErratikMantis commented 1 week ago

Thank you, I have just returned to this project after setting it down for sometime. So glad to see its implemented.

Thanks again.