Support fade speed in lights (wLightBoxS, dimmerBox) #33
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Can you link to those changes? I'd like to support it in HA as well, so anything useful in practice would save me a lot of time. I'm currently trying to get full BleBox support merged in HA officially anyway, so I'm interested in changes that are useful to you.
I'll help figure that out. If not, the table is very useful and I have nothing against it!
It's fine. I'm currently focused on high quality overall BleBox support in HA officially, so it might take some time before I get to this. Still it's very helpful to have working, practical and useful code - so thanks for taking the time to make this PR! |
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Based on your PR, I'll need to first improve the API so that additional parameters (like fadeSpeed) can be handled more cleanly. That means I'll release a 2.0.0 version before getting back to this PR. Let me know if you have any other suggestions, thanks! |
I didn't open the PR yet becuase I needed this library to be updated first to be able to use it (locally I just had everythiing bundled together. Should I still open PR in your HA component repo? Or should I share those changes with you some other way?
I'm following your PRs in HA repo and keeping fingers crossed 🤞 Once you add all the devices I hope we can add support for transition feature based on fadeSpeed described here.
Cool. I have asked on BleBox official forum, where the same question was already asked before, but no answer. A bit disappointing becuase I paid extra for their products (compared to Sonoff or Shelly), supporting local industry and expecting better support compared to their cheap Chinese competitors ... Anyway this is the thread: http://forum.lic.pl/blebox/dimmerbox-sciemniacz-ac-230v-na-smartfony-i-tablety/45/
Good idea. I was trying to make as little changes as possible but you can see that the changes are not state of the art. The |
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@gadgetmobile congrats on merging your integration into HA repo! 🎊 |
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Thanks! I'll probably start celebrating after the next HA release. Then, I'll deprecate my fork and I'll be able to get back to updating blebox_uniapi again... |
Hi! I have been testing your upcoming blebox component in HA at my house, and I was trying to find out if it would be possible to add dimming effect to light state changes. I have found out that in two of my modules (wLightBoxS, dimmerBox) apart from brightness we can also send a fadeSpeed argument which controls how fast should the change be made. I have made the changes in this library and in the HA component. I have tested it with mentioned modules and it all seems to work.
I had one issue, which is time conversion for this parameter. It is expected to send a value from 0 to 255. Using the mobile app I found out that the value correlates to time range from 0s to 1h, however the relation to time is not linear. I asked the manufacturer but didn't receive any answer (there was a question about this aready on the forum, also without answer). I solved it by downloading they mobile application APK file and anlyzed the source code. I found out that they store a fixed list of time values and that's how they do the conversion. So unless we learn what is the forumal to calculate it, doing it the same way is the only option, and that's what I have implemented.
Sorry in advnce for any mistakes that I made. I just started learning Python (my backgound is C#) so I will be very happy to learn how to write things better.
This PR closes #31