Dimmer setting mode

[erikvanderhorst82]

I'm running the kaku plugin in my raspberry pi with a 433mhz transmitter. It works almost perfect. I have a lot of dimmers. And when the lights are on and when I ask siri to put all the lights on. All the lights that allready are on are going into dimmer setting mode. So from 100% to 0% and so on.... is there a fix for that?

[kevinriemens]

I fixed a simulator issue in a fork by having the ON command for dimmable device prevented, and instead sending a "dim to 100%" command.

[erikvanderhorst82]

Yes I also did this, but when I put a light on with the lightswitch on the wall for example for 100%. And then give the command with siri put all the lights on in the livingroom. The one that was alleready on goes in the dinmer setting mode.

[robertklep]

@erikvanderhorst82 did you set the "dimmable" option for those devices in the Homebridge configuration? See the example here.

If you enable that option, the plugin will try and prevent multiple "on" commands being sent to the device (although this may not work reliably if you also use a regular KaKu remote to handle the device state).

@kevinriemens feel free to create a pull request against my repo, it sounds like a useful solution!

[erikvanderhorst82]

Yes I did. And I'm using the dimmers that you can build in your original light switch. So the problem is that the kaku doesn't give feedback if its on or of?

[kevinriemens]

@erikvanderhorst82 KAKU is one way, so does not provide any feedback about it's on or off state. It can only receive commands.

@robertklep will do!