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Device grouping for Homey
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Get feedback on device status #4

Open kukel opened 7 years ago

kukel commented 7 years ago

It works great for grouping my Philips Hue lights, thanks for that! There is just one thing 'missing'. The 'feedback' on the light status. When e.g. I turn on the lights in the livingroom by voice and want to turn them of with the grouped light button, I do no see them being turned on (or vice-versa). I know this is not the easiest thing to implement, especially if not all grouped devices have feedback, but I thought I'd report it anyway

Using 1.0 of your app and 1.5.0rc8 for homey itself

Nice work btw!

swttt commented 7 years ago

I know, its still on the to do list. Can't decide on how the grouped device should react since there are 2 possibilities:

  1. When 1 device within the group is turned on, turn the group device on
  2. When 1 device within the group is turned off, turn the group device off

Ofcourse when only using the grouped device, reboot is the only issue you will have :smile: You could move the seperate devices to a zone named "not used" and use the grouped device within your zones. When you turn on the lights by speech, it will get updated etc.

kukel commented 7 years ago

Maybe it is a limitation of 'Homey'. Maybe a grouped 'button' could be a split on/off button instead of a toggle button. And an icon that shows that 'some' lights are on and some are off (tri-state) and where just a slider for it being dimmable could be beneath it and a long press would open up some details or.

That is 'ui-usability'. I e.g. seldomly change the colors of my hue lights individually, so that might be hidden a little (keeps the ui cleaner/less crowded)... Maybe you could bring this up with the Athom guys (since you seem more intimate with them ;-))

swttt commented 7 years ago

Thats actually indeed a limitation and not possible. The best way would be to only use the device groups (for speech, flows and manual switching) or keep them in sync using flows.

hive commented 6 years ago

It would be great if the user could decide how it works. Either as option (none) /1/2 with in the group settings, on a group by group basis. Or failing that If we had the ability to change the 'state' of the group with out actually triggering the grouped devices capabilities using flows we could do what ever we wanted.

lukefairbank commented 6 years ago

Hi, Really good app by the way and helps plug a huge gap in Homey light control. Any updates on this feature, Alexa screws up the status all the time.

hive commented 6 years ago

Ive got a version with this feature if you willing to be an alpha tester?

lukefairbank commented 6 years ago

Sure, love to

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hive commented 6 years ago

Ive sent instructions on the athom forums.