Advanced Button Controller (ABC)

michael.l.nelson · April 15, 2018, 4:08am

I’ve attempted to use ABC with three button devices to incrementally DIM lights up and down with no luck When I trigger increasing the light level by any increment I get a “run way” reaction all the way to 100%. Every attempt to decrease the brightness does nothing. The lights are OSRAM Lightify Spots and the button controllers are the Lightify button, Mi Cube, and Iris Key Fob.

The other ABC functions I’ve tried all work.

Has anyone had any success using ABC to “increase level by” or “decrease level by” options?

stephack · April 15, 2018, 10:55am

Are you using the pushed or held option for the button device. Also please post a link to the driver you are using for both the light and the button device.

joelclendineng · April 15, 2018, 5:46pm

Same here, using osram lightify bulbs with a osram lightify 2(4) button dimmer. 2 buttons, supports held and push though I have not gotten held working consistently. I will tell it to dim up 25 percent a push, the first push works but the next push does nothing until I manually refresh the bulb. I need to make a webcore app to refresh everything on push maybe?

stephack · April 15, 2018, 6:11pm

That is by design. The dim value increments based on the value that the device reports back. If the device does not refresh its value quickly enough the you would have to wait till that time before hitting the button again.

EdwardN · April 15, 2018, 6:42pm

That seems a poor design to me. For every additional push within a short time frame, it should store and send the additional increase. Waiting for a refresh sucks. Could you use double and triple tap to send larger increases and decreases?

stephack · April 15, 2018, 6:52pm

Probably is, and I'm sure there are many other design flaws. Unfortunately, I'm not a developer and I'm not able to see/design around every potential issue. I can't forsee what problems may arise by using your method @EdwardN but have no plans to update the ABC app for this right now (time is limited and I'm focusing on other automatons at the moment).
If someone wants to update, test and share their method for adjusting dims incrementally, I'll happily update the code in my repo accordingly.

EdwardN · April 15, 2018, 7:10pm

I apologize. I didn’t intend it to be a criticism. I see reference in the code for double-click but it’s not appearing as an option for my caseta picos. I assume it has to be supported by the device driver?

@joelclendineng , I’d recommend you use push for one increase and hold for a larger one, if you don’t have hold already mapped to something else.

stephack · April 15, 2018, 7:15pm

No need to apologize. You are probably correct that it's not the best way. I built it in a way that worked for me in ST. I haven't had the time to test everything in Hubitat yet.

That's correct. The driver has to explicitly say it supports Double Click. This isn't a software workaround like it was done in ST. Hubitat has built in support for device that send unique data for double clicks. Picos do not natively support double click so they won't give that option but I'm sure eventually someone with the need and motivation will create a custom driver that can emulate 2x clicks.

EdwardN · April 15, 2018, 7:20pm

There’s code for using a double-click here:

github.com

q13975/SmartThingsPublic/blob/master/smartapps/q13975/tap-to-toggle-a-switch.src/tap-to-toggle-a-switch.groovy

/**
 *  tap to toggle a switch
 *
 *  Copyright 2017 Mike Wang
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 */
definition(
    name: "Tap to toggle a switch",
    namespace: "q13975",
    author: "Mike Wang",
    description: "Double tap a switch to toggle another switch",

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But it’s specific to toggling a secondary switch on double tap. It could probably be converted though. I’m not sure how much messing with it would be needed or if it’d screw up the native double-tap of certain button devices.

In Smartthings it was unreliable because the timing for cloud responses were inconsistent. That shouldn’t be a problem for Hubitat though.

stephack · April 15, 2018, 7:28pm

That app would probably work as is but you would have play around with the numeric value on line 58 to find the right timing (since this is not cloud based). However…I have a feeling that any software implementation of double click would not be completely reliable.
Any button controller with native double click would not need this app at all (if the driver was updated to use Hubitat button implementation)

EdwardN · April 15, 2018, 7:31pm

I figured 5 seconds (5000 ms) was a little on the high side for a local system. Probably 2 seconds would be sufficient. I might try playing around with it and see if I can figure out how to add it in as another option to ABC.

michael.l.nelson · May 14, 2018, 2:45am

Sorry, somehow I managed to miss your offer for help. I have another problem to solve first. The button controller is only registering button 1, so maybe the issue is with the device or the driver. When I get button 2 registering I'll try ABC again.

stephack · June 2, 2018, 1:34pm

Update 6/02/18:
v1.0.20180602 of ABC Button Mapping child app
added support to cycle fan speeds using my custom Hampton Bay Zigbee Fan Controller driver

stephack · June 30, 2018, 7:42pm

Update 6/30/18:
v1.0.20180630 of ABC Child App

adapted fan cycle to be compliant with fanControl capability (removed cycle support for custom driver)
added ability to set specific fan speed.
added support for ramping (graceful dimming) - switch/bulb needs changeLevel capability and button device needs releaseableButton capability.

stephack · July 1, 2018, 10:09pm

Update 7/01/18:
1.0.20180701 of ABC Button Mapping Child App
- added Released event handling for all control sections
- pushed/Held/DoubleTapped/Released hidden from Dimmer Ramp section based on devices capabilities

stephack · July 4, 2018, 12:41am

***Update 7/03/18 ***

Please note that the ABC Controller Parent App has also been updated this go round.
It is a cosmetic update that adds icons and I have readded the version checker that was available previously in Smartthings. (If a new version is available the Main ABC Icon will change to an UPDATE Icon.

ABC Child App is now v1.0.20180703
7/03/18 - code cleanup
- Added pictures enhancements and reordered options for better flow
- Corrected default child app label (previously defaulted to "ABC Button Mapping" on first save)

SmartHomePrimer · July 4, 2018, 1:58am

This looks fantastic. Thanks so much for your dedication to this app!

stephack · July 4, 2018, 12:30pm

Thanks @SmartHomePrimer
I always felt that it was difficult to find and tweak settings with the generic HE layout. Once I learned the neat trick that @bangali used in his Rooms Manager app, I figured ABC could use a little spit and shine. It makes app navigation a whole lot easier.

And I figured I would fix a couple of small bugs along the way.

anon61068208 · July 12, 2018, 5:33am

For the life of me I can't find the code for this. Am I just blind ?

csteele · July 12, 2018, 5:45am

https://github.com/stephack/Hubitat/tree/master/smartapps/stephack