You’ll get a prompt for what to use for the input, tap Select a Home Accessory.Ĭhoose the accessory you want to control from your list, and tap Done. The If action has two fields, Input and Condition. We’ll use a single scripting action, IF, and two Control Home actions to send the commands to the Fan. We’ll get the normal shortcut editor view, and here we can build the simply script to toggle the Fan. On the scene selection screen, scroll all the way to the bottom, and tap Convert to Shortcut. Tap Add or Remove Accessories and Scenes. Tap Accessory Details to open the settings.Īn accessory with programmable buttons actions will show the available actions here, tap the one we want to program, in this case “ TWO DOTS, Single press”.Ĭonfigure the button action as a Shortcut Access the Rule settings for a buttonįirst we go to the accessory we want to program a button for, and long press on it to open the menu. Let’s create a toggle button using a Hue Tap switch to turn a fan on or off. While not obvious at first glance, it’s actually quite easy to access this feature. You can now use a limited subset of Siri Shortcuts actions right in the Home app when creating an automation, and that includes scripting actions that we can use to build the conditional behavior we need for toggling something. Use Siri Shortcuts to build a toggle automation The reality is that they are trigger events like any other automation and can be tied to an action in the same way.įor that automation to work as a toggle, it needs to include a conditional check to determine if the action should turn something on or off, and these conditions are also obfuscated in the Home app. The reason for this is that the Home app hides button press events as configuration items under the button accessory’s settings view. Aaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!! Please make it possible to label things intelligently.Being able to toggle something on and off using a single button press (like an Eve Button for example) seems like an obvious and desirable thing to do in a smart home, but Apple’s own Home app makes it appear impossible to achieve, instead only allowing one action or scene per button action. In fact, I have to write myself notes to know that what comes first in the main room, numbered 2, actually corresponds to window 3, not window one, or even 2. When I go to control things in the main room, the shutters are presented in numerical order - which would be great if that actually corresponded to their positions. My attempts to edit to get something that works for me got nowhere. When I identified everything on the app, I found that arbitrary (as far as I can see) numbers had been assigned to the rolling shutters, thus 4, 6, 2, 8 for the main room, 1 for a bedroom, 5 for another room, and the main bedroom had to get identified as “other” (apparently the system can’t accept that there may be be more than one bedroom.), with shutters 3 and 7.

The controls were installed in that same order. There are 8 windows, which for easy identification are numbered 1 to 8 as one moves around the flat in a clockwise manner, so shutters should be similarly numbered. I have just got controls for the rolling shutters on my apartment windows. Really irritating, I need to be able to rename things! I have reached out to Legrand support and have not heard back, thus am leaving this here to try and have these issues addressed, or at the very least, looked into.

I’m hoping that both of these issues can be worked out. As a reference, my Radiant Wi-Fi switches do not have this type of response time issue. I can only contribute this to the hub/gateway and the additional ‘hop’ of the communication. Actual response time for the accessory is fast, however, my experience thus far is that it takes upwards of 3-4 seconds for automations to respond to the switch/outlet being controlled. However, these are being added through the Bridge(Gateway), and the ability is not there to change this setting. Typically, in the home app, you can select from Switch, Light, or Fan. 1) When adding a switch, there is no way to define what ‘type’ of switch you are adding. The app does a good job for adding the switches into HomeKit. I have had the Legrand Radiant Smart Gateway and a few Switches and Outlets for a few weeks.

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