Suggestion: Knob with +/- buttons
malcb opened this issue · 1 comments
The knob can be a bit tricky for fine adjustment, especially on small tablets. It would be nice to be able to link this with some up/down buttons for when you just want to make a fine change. This would be best done in the js so the change appears instantly on screen rather than the buttons changing the setting in fhem and then having the wait for the change to propagate back to the tablet. I guess it would also need a time out value, such as 2s, so that no button press for 2s would trigger the knob to update fhem with the new value. You wouldn't want fhem updated each button press in case you were doing a few.
I have another solution to this problem. I got buttons to link to the knob, or in my case thermostat. However in practice the +/- buttons are not a good idea with a max thermostat because each +/- is a new message and messages are limited. It is not that difficult to exceed the 1% duty cycle and be locked out. My alternate solution is to have a small read only thermostat on the display which when tapped brings up a huge version that is easy to adjust on a tablet. Only one max message is sent this way, when you take your finger off the huge control. The code for this is in forum.fhem.de/index.php/topic,63649.0.html