[EARLY ALPHA RELEASE] Inovelli Group Notifier App

[bcopeland]

Inovelli Group Notifier App

Send a notification effect to groups of inovelli red series dimmers at the same time

Effects are managed in the app and named.
Call the effect by using the group child device notify command with the name of the notification effect.

Requires using the modified red series dimmer driver.

This is early unpolished code.
There are probably many bugs.
Releasing to the public early, looking for feature requests / ideas..

Drivers:
Actual replacement dimmer driver:
https://github.com/djdizzyd/hubitat/blob/master/Apps/inovelli-notifier-app/InovelliDimmerRedSeriesDjdizzyd-driver.groovy
Child device for sending notifications to:
https://github.com/djdizzyd/hubitat/blob/master/Apps/inovelli-notifier-app/inovelli-group-notifier-device.groovy

Apps:
Parent App:
https://github.com/djdizzyd/hubitat/blob/master/Apps/inovelli-notifier-app/inovelli-group-notifier-app.groovy
Child app for effect designing:
https://github.com/djdizzyd/hubitat/blob/master/Apps/inovelli-notifier-app/inovelli-group-notifier-app-child-effect.groovy
Child app for the groups:
https://github.com/djdizzyd/hubitat/blob/master/Apps/inovelli-notifier-app/inovelli-group-notifier-app-child-group.groovy

[bcopeland]

I am at the point where the code functions in my setup... and am just looking for ideas for features.. and looking for bugs...

The modified inovelli dimmer driver only adds 1 command and shouldn't break anything...

[dan3]

Is your most up to date LZW31-SN driver compatible with this app?
I am utilizing the setNotification function over child devices more & more...this could be extremely helpful!

[bcopeland]

Wow.. Don’t use this.. This has not been maintained in forever.. In fact it was abandoned ... I have an update to the original driver coming soon that will make these devices much easier to handle the notifications..

[dan3]

Thank you for the advice!
My RM apps are getting ugly sending notifications to 5+ devices and I had this app bookmarked for the longest.

Ill be on the lookout for the new driver

[bcopeland]

@dan3

My RM apps are getting ugly sending notifications to 5+

Yea.. I got the solution coming soon.. I'm doing a complete re-write of that driver with a super elegant notification control.. The idea hit me like a ton of bricks last week..

I hadn't done much with that driver because I have never liked the mess of notification settings and non-standard methods.. I like standards and consistency ..

[daweeze]

Any update on this idea?

[mark.amber]

I know its been like 9 months since last update, so I'm guessing this may be abandoned again ...but I'll ask anyway... @bcopeland Is there any update on this?

[bcopeland]

@mark.amber

Is there any update on this?

This is abandoned.. If anyone wants to take on continuation of any of my community code, please feel free..

[mark.amber]

@bcopeland

I have an update to the original driver coming soon that will make these devices much easier to handle the notifications..

@bcopeland

I'm doing a complete re-write of that driver with a super elegant notification control.. The idea hit me like a ton of bricks last week..

@bcopeland

This is abandoned.. If anyone wants to take on continuation of any of my community code, please feel free..

@bcopeland I peeked at the community code on github and those are all dated Jan 2020 which appears to be your first implementation. Is the 'improved' (complete re-write with super elegant control circa April 2020) version available anywhere? If I'm going to try and take this on I'd preferer to start with the newer improved version than the old original version

[bcopeland]

Ha.. No.. Since there seemed to be no interest in this when I was doing it.. It became abandoned ..

[mark.amber]

@bcopeland The lack of interest last year may have been too early to ask. A year ago, Inovelli Red Series were still very new and I don't think there was a large base of users implementing the LED Bar notifications yet. In the past 6 months (after you abandoned this in April) Inovelli switches have been flying off the shelves. I think there may be a lot more interest today than there was a year ago.

You may find a lot more interest today if you're willing to ask again. But if you still don't want to continue on with this, can you make the April version available for someone else to use as a launchpad? I don't think I want to start off with the original code since your newer version 'hit you like a ton of bricks' as a much better way to do it.