dduff617 wrote:Virtual Devices>Device Group device. The shades do seem to allow dimming in Indigo (though not in reality), but no color. The device group has neither dimming nor color in Indigo.
jay (support) wrote:dduff617 wrote:Virtual Devices>Device Group device. The shades do seem to allow dimming in Indigo (though not in reality), but no color. The device group has neither dimming nor color in Indigo.
Note that those devices are ON/OFF devices only (not dimmers). Not sure if that's adding to the confusion or not.
jay (support) wrote:Note that those devices are ON/OFF devices only (not dimmers). Not sure if that's adding to the confusion or not.
FlyingDiver wrote:Most shades actually do support dimming. 50% brightness would be half-open. At least, my Lutron shades do so.
If you're controlling individual shades (and not a group) you might want to change the type of the device group, or possibly use the Masquerade plugin instead.
FlyingDiver wrote:Are you sure about that? I export the pseudo-LIFX devices as either type 22 (Color 1000) for devices that advertise they support RGB or as type 10 (While 800) for any other device. LIFX doesn't have a non-dimmer device type. So using a real LIFX controller you shouldn't get color controls for non-color devices.
But it's quite possible the Harmony doesn't have a non-color control type. So you get what you get.
dduff617 wrote:Somehow either through limitations of LIFX protocol, limitations of LIFX-bridge plugin, or limitations of the Harmony interface, the Harmony remote ends up portraying every device as though it were a color-changing dimmable bulb. It still works (because it does support on/off), but is kind of inelegant to say the least.
FlyingDiver wrote:I really wish I could figure out how to emulate some other device that the Harmony Hub knows how to talk to, to get true switch control or other device types. But it's a really short list. I might look into what it would take to write a SmartThings Hub emulator in a plugin. That would much better. But I'm having a really hard time figuring out what protocol the Hub uses to talk to SmartThings.
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