Behaviour #5
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Currently, I provide no ability to set brightness (control). I do, however, provide status in the form of a percent derived from RGB values. When I change color, the behavior of the integration changes and RGB gets scaled by either the Home app or HomeKit. HomeKit is something I was vaguely aware of in the context of a dedicated hub, but after reading a bit it appears to be a component of iOS. So, I guess it's an element of the frontend along with Home. Curiously, when I open the Home app, it knows the correct value of brightness even as Homebridge reports NaN. Here's a screen snippet:
Unfortunately, the brightness control is not responsive. Here's a capture of the Homebridge console output before and after a change of color. RGB scaling is working using the brightness control:
The config.json file is attached. The file name had to be changed to transfer it. Thanks again. |
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I understand. It could be the python code I'm using in the light, but I can still use curl to set and get color data and status. I've never seen it fail. Brightness settings have been removed from config.json, but I still report brightness with ON, OFF, and color commands. And on initial startup, Homebridge is still looking for HSV values. Can you point to any other python code that has a solid interface with HomeKit? I can probably tailor it to the unicornhat library. Edit: Do you see anything wrong with this?
Thanks for trying to help. R |
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The fact you report brightness and colour with on/off commands is Oké. But you have to specify a regular expression to match the The colour and brightness status must! reply plain text no json format or otherwise. Can you print the colour reply? E.g. The output of It is by the way not common to use 0.0.0.0 when you target a host. Normally only used when you start a server. To target your localhost: |
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I've pushed a new version which should be available for you to install. I've mimicked your config.json for my light and it works in my situation where brightness is simulated by changing RGB: |
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Wonderful. Thanks so much. I'll install the new version and get back to you. FWIW, Homebridge, HttpPushRgb, and Home are running on the same host. That's why I'm using 0.0.0.0. There are a few configurations I can try, but I'm changing the python to respond to brightness with plain text. Is that still necessary? |
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I understand you use Unfortunately you still have to change the reply for colour to plain text. I can make it to accept a regular expression, but that will need some testing and refactoring for me. |
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The communication is roughly as follows:
iPhone -> Apple Home App or Eve --HSV--> HomeKit --HSV--> Homebridge --HSV--> hombridge-http-rgb-push --RGB--> Your device.
As you see the plugin receives HSV from HomeKit always (and optionally brightness when configured in
config.json), translates it to RGB values and a brightness and calls your device.Correct, but I cannot match this with your earlier statement: "The light has RGB capability, so there is no brightness control."
The plugin is written such that if you disable brightness it will indeed tell HomeKit to remove the brightness characteristic from its controls.
Regarding the
_setRGB() failed: options.uri is a required argumentthe error is a bit misleading, but make sure you have set_url correctly set in your config.Can you paste your configuration?
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