Re: [mh] Where next with MisterHouse

Thanks - yes, I found "direct_control" config when I was working on it.

But I wanted a per-item option as some items are multistate or not good 
for direct control as they would fight with automatic logic but are 
nevertheless good to view, so I implemented a per-item "direct_control" 
config, as well as the global one as the fall-back/default if no 
individual value configure - this works well.  I'm happy to share my 
work as-is, but as I mentioned the drop-downs are rather more 
complicated and so a WIP.  I'm not ready to abandon IA5 until most of 
the same functionality is available = drop-downs are a bit of a 
showstopper for me.  My config looks like (global value set to "yes"):


    "objects" : {
       "Study_PC" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "study_heating" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "living_heating" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "upstairs_heating" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "Hot_water" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "Squeeze_Bed1" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "Squeeze_Kitchen" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "Squeeze_Living" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "Squeeze_Study" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       },
       "Alarm_scene" : {
         "direct_control" : "no"
       }
    },
    "prefs" : {
...


On 4/01/2021 4:55 pm, H Plato wrote:
> Looks like the ia7 config page documentation needs updating. There is 
> an ia7_config.json setting for on/off default rather than to pull up 
> the property page. Toggle buttons are identified by a black border.
>
> The ia7_config.json setting is direct_control:yes, for example:
>
>
>   "objects" : {
>   “toggle_object" : {
>   "direct_control" : "yes"
>   },
>
>> On Jan 4, 2021, at 9:15 AM, Richard F <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> UI. Much of my merge/update work in #Lockdown1 was on IA7. It needs a 
>> bit more work, but a huge amount has been done, and it works well, 
>> providing real state feedback for many of my items without much 
>> sweat.  I have made some improvements to multi-state items (e.g. 
>> Squeezeplayers control/show states), added optional 1-click 
>> activation for on/off's that was sorely missing, and 1 or 2 other 
>> tweaks. I got stuck on the missing drop-downs that I use a fair bit 
>> in IA5, and that's when summer came round.  I vote for more work on 
>> top of the great IA7 contributions already made.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> On 4/01/2021 10:54 am, Giles Godart-Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> There has been quite a bit of activity recently on the Forum and I 
>>> was wondering if we should plan what to do next.
>>>
>>> Here are some questions that you may have views on;
>>>
>>> Should we do another major release of what's currently in Master?
>>>
>>> Do we need a new web UI?
>>>
>>> How do we get more people to use and contribute to MisterHouse?
>>>
>>> Is there anything we should deprecate or provide with a health 
>>> warning?  Going through the docs and ./lib files, there are a lot of 
>>> modules for redundant kit which is unlikely to be developed further 
>>> (or even fixed) and is often not documented fully.
>>>
>>> There has been a big change recently with cheap bi-directional Wi-Fi 
>>> devices and MisterHouse wasn't really created with this in mind, 
>>> notably we don't have a defined  feedback mechanism to check that 
>>> when we change an item state this actually happens and we don't have 
>>> a defined way of having an item with multiple states (perhaps we 
>>> should encourage JSON for this), or multiple triggers (mqtt poses 
>>> this question). I believe the industry is moving further in this 
>>> direction, Tasmota wont be the last and only solution, so this begs 
>>> the question;
>>>
>>> Do we need some architecture changes to support bi-directional 
>>> devices with feedback?
>>>
>>> If you have views/suggestions, please respond to this thread, if it 
>>> gets too cumbersome, I'll split it onto a number of individual threads.
>>>
>>> Stay safe
>>>
>>> Giles
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ________________________________________________________
>> To unsubscribe from this list, go to: 
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users
>>
>

________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe from this list, go to: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users