Hi!
I am new to homeassistant and struggling a bit with creating an proper automation for controling our extractor fan / cooking hood.
I have the following situation:
- the cooking hood has 4 states (1,2,3,4)
- one KNX entity for “1 up”
- one KNX entity for “1 down”
What I want:
- controlling the cooking hood via Alexa as a fan or switch with “percentage”.
- saying something like “Alexa set cooking hood to 50%” should sent a “1” to KNX entity “1 up” TWICE (first 1 for 25%, second for 50%)
- homassistant should know and save the state of the cooking hood
Question: do I need a “dummy entity” for this?
I do have an integration in JavaScript. So I would know how to build this in Code. But the homeassistant approach is new to me, and I have no idea how I can build this out of entities, helpers, automations, blueprints etc.
Hope I did make clear what I need and would be happy for help.
Regards
Rico