Can't control fan status over Shortcuts

[aarons22]

Can't control fan status over Shortcuts

[vdotn]

Can you share the shortcut? Also do you have a home hub? And if so what device/iOS version?

[iRayanKhan]

Yeah.
On my Mac so I'll send the shortcut asap.
Home Hubs:

1. Apple TV 4K (3 of them 1 is the main one that's always connected, left the others on disabled)
2. HomePod (2 of them always on standby)
   All on the latest beta build
   Shortcut I can send in a few hours as I don't have my phone on me currently.
   As I said before it's weird how the Fan Light accessory toggles via the shortcut, but the fan speed it self doesn't.
   Also the shortcut is an automation that runs a select shortcut via NFC sticker (again fan light works, just not fan speed) and can be run without a NFC sticker.

[vdotn]

I’ll test your shortcut against my setup for ya once you post it.

Was wondering if your issue is related to what I saw when my HomePod (iOS 12.4) took over as home hub and everything went to shit, but it doesn’t appear to be your case.

[iRayanKhan]

My address is blurred since this is a public space obviously and can’t share the shortcut directly, but it’s easy to make as seen in the screenshots.

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[iRayanKhan]

Love how they didn't attach.
Here they are:
(To get the home actions just search "State" for the get state and "Control" for the control portion.
If you have email feel free to email [email protected] for the shortcut directly if you run into any issues.

[iRayanKhan]

Automations via the home app seems to be broken too. This doesn't seem like an OS level bug, since every other accessory works homebridge. or not. No clue what's happening. Gonna get logs later tomorrow and attach them.

[iRayanKhan]

I somehow have 2 versions of bond, the one by EDC and the fork you made before It was merged originally. Found this when trying to add a TV, they are fighting over each other. I'm gonna have to re-do my homebridge setup anyways since I have lots of old versions of plugins it seems and a fresh install with the latest nom version should fix things

[dxdc]

@iRayanKhan just playing with this a little bit, I wonder if the problem is that you're looking for the Fan Power State. It seems like this never gets touched by homebridge-bond -- essentially -- it sets the fan speed to 0%, 33%, 66%, or 100%, instead of also turning off the fan at 0%.

This is strange, because in the Home app itself, I CAN turn off the fan by just clicking on the icon.

When automation sets fan speed to 0, fan should turn off in real life.

Agreed, but I think this is probably a bug in the homebridge code because it's not turning off at 0 BUT I can turn it off via the Home app.

So, I think the following psuedo-code would be better:

Get Power State of Fan
Get Fan Speed of Fan

if fan = off {
  // fan off
} else if Fan Speed = 0 {
  // fan ON, but set to 0
} else {
 // fan ON, and speed > 0
}

Also, one thing I've discovered with Shortcuts (for example, with screen brightness) is that you have to use a float to set % numbers. So, on a 3 speed fan, I think you have to set the fan speed to 0.33, 0.66, or 1.0, though I haven't tested this.

[iRayanKhan]

Closed:
Re-did my whole HomeBridge set-up and it seems to be working now. I guess it kept the v1 plugin or whatever, but make sure if this happens to anyone to remove v1 from
/usr/lib/node_modules