[Feature] Option to stop blinds

[1HyperZ]

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Describe the bug
when you click on blinds in the home app it opens or close doesnt stop

Related devices
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To Reproduce
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1. Change '...' via the Home app.
2. Log shows MQTT message '...' being published to topic '...'
3. The device does the following: '...'

Expected behavior
i expect that after you press open the next press will be stop not close

MQTT messages
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• The device entry from zigbee2mqtt/bridge/devices (note: this is different from zigbee2mqtt/bridge/config/devices)
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[itavero]

Did you set the limits of the cover on the device itself?

FYI: Open and close always means 0% or 100% in HomeKit.
You need to set a percentage if you want a level in between (e.g. by pressing down on the tile in the Home.app rather then tapping it, similar to changing the brightness of a bulb).

[1HyperZ]

i recently changed from shelly 2.5 to this module on the shelly i could just tap it on the room screen and it would up/stop/down the blinds why is it different?

[itavero]

I'm unaware of that feature.
This plugin implements all required characteristics of a Window Covering as far as I'm aware.

Perhaps an additional characteristic can provide this.
If you can tell me what characteristic you'd need and how it should be mapped, we can turn this issue into a feature request.

[1HyperZ]

i dont really know how it should be mapped or anything like that but i think its the Hold Position characteristic that does that. if it helps i can take a video of how it looks in the home app when using this plugin and how it looks when using a shelly for example

[itavero]

That won't really help. Do you know of an open source plugin/firmware that implements this feature?

[1HyperZ]

That won't really help. Do you know of an open source plugin/firmware that implements this feature?

I know the Shelly HomeKit firmware use it for sure( Shelly doesn't natively support HomeKit you need to update to a custom firmware) here i would send a link to there GitHub https://github.com/mongoose-os-apps/shelly-homekit

[itavero]

The Hold Position characteristic is indeed mentioned in their code, but I'm not that familiair with their code base to see if this is the characteristic that gets you this behavior: https://github.com/mongoose-os-apps/shelly-homekit/blob/8b48fba899d3c17d9347d12efee085d31743a921/src/shelly_hap_window_covering.cpp

[1HyperZ]

The Hold Position characteristic is indeed mentioned in their code, but I'm not that familiair with their code base to see if this is the characteristic that gets you this behavior: https://github.com/mongoose-os-apps/shelly-homekit/blob/8b48fba899d3c17d9347d12efee085d31743a921/src/shelly_hap_window_covering.cpp

Ok thank you anyways

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[itavero]

Finally had some time to look into this. I think I've made an implementation that can work, based on what I've seen in the Shelly repository.
However, it's totally unclear to me how to trigger this "Stop" action via HomeKit.

@1HyperZ Can you tell me where I can find this in the Home.app on iOS 16? I really want to see it working before merging and releasing it.

[1HyperZ]

In iOS 15 you would trigger this just by pressing on the accessory's icon on the rooms screen in iOS 16 you would click on the icon as well but you need to press on the center of the icon and not on the side because it will pull up the setting for the accessory see in photo

[itavero]

Thanks for the information. I still wasn't able to trigger this through the Home.app on iOS 16.

I did check the Eve app and noticed that it now shows a Stop button (after implementing the Hold Position characteristic) which it did not have before.

This allows you to stop at the current position, after which the actual position will be update in a short moment.

I'll go ahead and try to include it in the next release.

[1HyperZ]

I can't find this stop option even in the eve app🤷‍♂️

[itavero]

Did I already release this? 🤔
During development, I only could stop it from the Home app when it's "moving" in the app as well.

[1HyperZ]

Oh didn't know you haven't released it yet let me know when you do and thank you

[itavero]

Just release v1.10.0 to homebridge-z2m@next. Because there were quite some internal changes, I haven't pushed it to latest yet. So far it seems to be working fine on my setup, but if you run into any issues, please do let me know.

[itavero]

Just released v1.10.0 to homebridge-z2m@next which includes this feature. Because there were quite some internal changes, I haven't pushed it to latest yet. So far it seems to be working fine on my setup, but if you run into any issues, please do let me know.