How's the chance for an update? (Homekit now knows "battery level")

[shadowkiller]

Hey Larsan!

Thanks a lot for the npm for Robonect!

Yesterday I installed Homebridge on my Synology (very easy, automated progress) and today (!) I installed you rpn-plugin for homebridge and it works very well. Thank You for Your great work!

Like the Screenshot shows, HomeKit can actually see the Mowers battery level (66%) and also "loading" oder not interpreting it as the correct "battery level", so maybe the workaround to use it as humidity sensor is no longer needed. (You can also see, the workaround is behind in parsing at 67% battery level )
This native HomeKit battery level is also shown in "Auto/Home", "Mowing", "Temperature", etc.
Maybe this can trigger You in updating the rpn?
Love Your work!

And another question:
Every time in HomeKit I touch the robots icon, this wakes up the robot itself. Why? Every time this results in the mowers “beep beep”, which confuses me.
Normally all Data Robonect has to offer, and it is not needed to wake it up, for showing the state of all switches of this “ventilator”.

Also battery is provided by Robonect. No need to actuality get it from the mower.

Temperature and the stats if it is mowing or not are also readable from Robonect.

Thank U!

[larsan]

Hi Shadowkiller.

Thank you for your kind words

Yes - Homekit now knows the battery level, as does my plugin. Otherwise you would not see it in all the accessories.
I specifically have a service for just that.

Since I am an 'at a glance' guy, I wanted the battery level to be visible as soon as I entered the Home app, thus the humidity sensor. I guess I could do a config setting to allow users to toggle the humidity sensor on/off.


As for the mower waking up, I have no good answer for you. I'm only using the JSON api's available from the card itself. It is Robonect that wakes the mower.

Perhaps Fabian can shed some light on which of the API:s I'm using that triggers the wake up?
I'm using these;
- status
- battery
- health
- version (this one's queried ONCE on load of plugin into homebrigde)
- mode (this is only triggered when the user acts on the switches in the home app, not on home app load)

[larsan]

Did a quick update on github;
https://github.com/dinmammas/homebridge-robonect

Update your index.js with the one on github, and add
"show-humidity":"no", in your config.json
to get rid of the humidity sensor.

[shadowkiller]

Thank You so much for Your fast answer and reaction! I’ll check this out today.

Hmm, if Your plugin is reading data from Robonect only without waking the mower up, I’m asking why it is beeping if I’m touching the Robonect-Icon in Apples home app?

[Admin]

battery wakes the mower. The battery level is part of the status frame. So maybe the cmd=battery is not necessary.

Or: first check, if the mower is sleeping (you see this in the status response) before you request the battery data.

[larsan]

battery wakes the mower. The battery level is part of the status frame. So maybe the cmd=battery is not necessary.

Or: first check, if the mower is sleeping (you see this in the status response) before you request the battery data.

I read battery level and status from the status frame as suggested, but I read the battery temperature from the battery service, for the users (such as myself) that has an older Robonect card without a temp sensor.
Perhaps I can make a toggle for this as well.

[shadowkiller]

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I read battery level and status from the status frame as suggested, but I read the battery temperature from the battery service, for the users (such as myself) that has an older Robonect card without a temp sensor.
Perhaps I can make a toggle for this as well.

This would be fine, too!

And how is about to show the battery level, Homekit already knows, not in the secondary level it shows it by itself, but like humidity sensor such as being able to use it as a trigger?

Some feedback because You asked for Users using 1.2 (RC0)

I get following messages while rebooting Homebridge:

[7/6/2020, 8:03:35 PM] [Shaun] Mower temperature: 27
[7/6/2020, 8:03:52 PM] [Shaun] Get temperature error: socket hang up

Is this o.k.?

[larsan]

Toggling the switch sets the mower to either "auto" or "home", directly via API calls.
I guess robonect needs to save the setting to the mower, thus it wakes up.

ECONNRESET is something I've seen most recently with 1.2RC0...

[shadowkiller]

Toggling the switch sets the mower to either "auto" or "home", directly via API calls.
I guess robonect needs to save the setting to the mower, thus it wakes up.
..

Sorry, thats a normal behavior. My thinking mistake....