Smarter fireplace control

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Configuration & Planning for my Home Automation systems

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Smarter fireplace control #37

Closed technicalpickles closed 5 years ago

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

There's two edge cases now:

Goodnight turns on fireplace TV if it was off
If the video that was started for 'turn on fireplace'

This is in part to the use of a broadlink switch for IR control, and it's stateless. Ideally, it should be possible to use HDMI-CEC from kodi to turn off the display, but have not had much luck with that so far.

The temp fix to get turn off is to "Alexa, turn off fireplace", which just sends toggle, but you have to know that it's on (ie you are looking at it), otherwise it will just turn it on.

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

Some ideas:

use an etekcity outlet with the tv. this would be a decent way to really "force" it to be off
maybe there is a kiosk mode for the TV or some setting so it turns on when power is reconnected?

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/technicalpickles/picklehome-homeassistant-config/pull/57 is helping. I'm using an Etekcity outlet for the TV, controlled by broadlink. Unfortunately, it seems to be flakey sometimes, and the broadlink needs to be restarted before it will send packets.

I picked up some Sonoff Basic switches, that I'm hoping will be more reliable, with an added bonus of being able to keep state.

technicalpickles commented 5 years ago

The sonoff didn't quite work out. The boradlink requires rebooting still, but it works well enough otherwise.