Add Light Control and Manual Refresh to Linear Garage Door

DocBrown · April 6, 2024, 9:44pm

Thank you for implementing this integration! Two feature requests. First, can control of the opener’s light be made available? I have a motion sensor in the garage that already triggers the interior lights whenever someone enters, so it’d be nice to also turn on/off the opener’s light too.

Second, can there be an option to trigger the manual polling of status? I noticed there’s a bit of delay between when the door opens/closes via the wall switch/remote and when HA sees the status update. Could a button (or something similar) be exposed so that the status can be more quickly polled/refreshed? For example, a tilt sensor on the door could trigger HA to poll the Linear API.

Thank you!

nickrout · April 6, 2024, 11:10pm

For the first question, can you control the light in the Linear mobile app?

For the second, again how quickly does it update in the app?

The scan_interval is set here

github.com

home-assistant/core/blob/553c1479330f3cd836d33c2cc2d453c6660e20ff/homeassistant/components/linear_garage_door/cover.py#L25


      
          from homeassistant.helpers.aiohttp_client import async_get_clientsession
          from homeassistant.helpers.device_registry import DeviceInfo
          from homeassistant.helpers.entity_platform import AddEntitiesCallback
          from homeassistant.helpers.update_coordinator import CoordinatorEntity
          
          from .const import DOMAIN
          from .coordinator import LinearUpdateCoordinator
          
          SUPPORTED_SUBDEVICES = ["GDO"]
          PARALLEL_UPDATES = 1
          SCAN_INTERVAL = timedelta(seconds=10)
          
          
          async def async_setup_entry(
              hass: HomeAssistant,
              config_entry: ConfigEntry,
              async_add_entities: AddEntitiesCallback,
          ) -> None:
              """Set up Linear Garage Door cover."""
              coordinator: LinearUpdateCoordinator = hass.data[DOMAIN][config_entry.entry_id]
              data = coordinator.data

Bear in mind that changing it may hammer the server, and that may be bad for several reasons.

You can also use the service reload_config_entry. But again, do not hammer the server. No one will thank you if the service disappears through over use.

DocBrown · April 7, 2024, 2:39am

1: Yup, the app has two buttons, one for the door and one for the light. It also provides status for both.
2: That’s interesting, I saw some comments on GitHub that made it seem like it was set to 60s: Add Linear Garage Door integration by IceBotYT · Pull Request #91436 · home-assistant/core · GitHub
But to answer the question, the app is often a little ahead of HA. I figured it was due to a slower polling frequency.

nickrout · April 7, 2024, 3:31am

Looks like the light platform was initially included, but then removed because new integrations are limited to one platform Checklist for creating a component | Home Assistant Developer Docs and there is reference to it being removed.

Perhaps now that the initial integration has been accepted the author will add the light stuff back.