High value thread right here, thanks and h/t to all. Iâve deployed around 15 Red switches (mix of 30s and 31s) around the house - after a few months of behavioral analysis, Iâve determined my test subjects (family) have some deeply ingrained âswitch habitsâ and a distinct lack of tolerance for change:
- 95%+ of switch interaction is on/off 1x tap
- Config taps and dimming actions are just starting - later/slower than I expected.
- Multi-taps adopted by 1 user (me)
- Confusion grew in-line with the number of deployed switches (my fault - âlook what I can doâ turned into a mess of various / spotty switch behaviors)
So, Iâve adapted the excellent subflows from @harmfulmushroom, @nappyjim and a few others with the following loose âstandardsâ intended to a) deliver a more familiar experience for my stodgy users, and b) keep the dev team (me) focused on utility first, creative exuberance second:
- Model traditional switch behavior - up=on, down=off
- Maintain consistency - 1x = expected lights, 2x = area/room, config = switches etc.
- Target âintuitively obviousâ behavior - âi wonder what this will doâ is, evidently, more frustrating than interesting to everyone but this admin (even though random color loops on config press are sweet - adoption first, easter eggs second for my users)
The resulting Red Dimmer subflow:
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This approach requires at least a {{payload.service}} variable in the Call Service node and no additional data (i.e. color, brightness, etc.) or the turn_off call will barf in some cases (switches). So I modeled primary scenes for each room in Node Red and pass {{payload.domain /service /entityid}} and data to the Call Service node as appropriate. I still have an occasional on/off (OOF) switch outside of the Inovelli subflows for non-binary use-cases (e.g. on = âset cover to 6%â but off = close cover), but theyâre the exception:
This took some up-front lift to templatize, join, and branch within the scene subflows, but a lot of that was modeling entities and establishing a common subflow palette (pal):
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This approach also makes it easy to repurpose each scene in NR without worrying about the input (turn_on, on, true are branched in pal-OnOff), so you can attach them to Inovelli, schedules, presence flows, NR HASS Switch entities, etc. Acknowledged, you could do the same by calling HASS scripts or scenes/automations, but I prefer Node Redâs functionality and visual object-oriented approach for automation and scene management. That said, the Websocket API is still foreign territory to me, and surely thereâs a more efficient way to set/pass variables to HASS. Mushroomâs pass-nodeID solution looks interesting - need to understand it better to see if it can clean up my sprawling Inovelli Switch flow!
I had to fix it.
