Self-resetting counter for fan speed

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Im going to add an iFan04 and am looking at how to control the fan speed with a single hardware button on an NSPanel. Basically, it will be a counter with 4 steps, 0-3, with zero being ‘Off’ and 3 being ‘Max’. Each button tap will increase the counter.

What i can’t get my head around is how to see what the current counter # is so that it knows that if it’s already 3 then reset the counter to 0 before sending the fan controller the speed command.

Im using the gui because I’ve yet to get my head around YAML coding.

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This is the best that I’ve been able to come up with. Does it look right?

Edit: no, it doesn’t look right. The copy/paste made it all run together…

alias: BR Fan Speed automation description: "" trigger: - platform: state entity_id: - input_button.br_fan_speed_button condition: [] action: - if: - condition: numeric_state entity_id: counter.br_fan_speed above: 2 then: - service: counter.reset data: {} target: entity_id: counter.br_fan_speed else: - service: counter.increment data: {} target: entity_id: counter.br_fan_speed mode: single
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Lol as horrible as the formatting of the code is, it works perfect.

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You need to paste your code as preformatted text (this is now in the cogwheel bit of the toolbar).

How about…

Trigger: Button press
Action: Increment counter helper
Condition: If numeric state of counter > 3
Action: Reset counter

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Here’s the properly formatted code and it works perfect. I just have to add the action at the end to send the fan controller the command to actually set the speed. I put a ‘notify’ command as a temporary placeholder for where the command will go.

alias: BR Fan Speed automation
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - input_button.br_fan_speed_button
condition: []
action:
  - if:
      - condition: numeric_state
        entity_id: counter.br_fan_speed
        above: 2
    then:
      - service: counter.reset
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: counter.br_fan_speed
    else:
      - service: counter.increment
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: counter.br_fan_speed
  - service: notify.notify
    data:
      message: Fan Speed set
    enabled: false
mode: single