🧯 ZHA - Xiaomi Cube Controller

superpaul · March 16, 2023, 3:35am

@Sir_Goodenough Thank you for all your hard work on this. The blueprint looks fantastic. I have what I hope is a quick (albeit bone-headed) question. I read through everything here including your tidbit about the T1 Pro missing functionality in zigpy. In my case I only seem to be able to trigger rotation (right/left) and “shaken” events. I considered the cube’s mode is incorrect, but the scene mode doesn’t appear to support rotation, so I’m assuming I’m in action mode. Any tips?

Sir_Goodenough · March 16, 2023, 7:25am

Scene mode does rotate. You are in scene mode, switch it to action mode.
Here is a jump link to a list of what happens in action mode and scene mode with Z2M anyway…

superpaul · March 16, 2023, 2:18pm

Awesome. Thank you. Changing the mode seems to have done the trick. I do have one more question. I noticed that when you describe the helper entity, you indicate the range should be 0-6. I’m curious as to why it’s not 0-5 (assuming that 6 would actually be out of range).

Thanks again for all your help and hard work.

Sir_Goodenough · March 17, 2023, 7:37am

0 to 6 or 0 to 5 would be fine there. Either will work.
It was a carry-over from when I used to need to have people make an input helper for Z2M, which is the BP I built first.

I now build the input helper for you in the Z2M ones. I would do that here if I could…

Sir_Goodenough · April 24, 2023, 7:35am

I have added 3 new script blueprints to replace the yaml scripts I had offered as samples before. I have also cleaned the coding up on these and simplified them.
They may now be suitable for use in other people Blueprints and/or your bare automation to help with light dimming with the cube, color change with the cube, and simulating long / short button press with the cube.
I am now working on one to do volume control.

Cube Light Dimming:

Cube Color Change:

Cube Long/Short Press Simulation:

seffyroff · July 18, 2023, 8:16pm

Hey @Sir_Goodenough, I’m using your BPs and they work flawlessly, thank you so much!

I was wondering about volume control - you mentioned back in April that you were working on one. I was curious to see how far you got. I was also wondering if I could adapt the light dimmer script yaml by changing domain from light to media_player (and a few other things). I did try instead using a basic binding of cw/ccw to media_player.volume_up/down, which does work, but the rotation fidelity isn’t smooth or consistent so I was looking for something nicer.

Sir_Goodenough · July 18, 2023, 10:20pm

Try changing the multipliet so that you have to spin it way more times. This will smooth it out some. Otherwise we would have to make it do 5% bumps each time it detects a movement.
There is a helper BP I wrote in my library which does ‘short press’ / ‘long press’. You could move the volume like 5% on the short and 10% on the long?
Just thinking out of the box on how I would do this.

I am in the middle of an update of all my BP’s right now, so if you come up with something you think works well, drop it into an issue as a feature request, we can incorporate it in as a helper BP or something.

Sir_Goodenough · July 20, 2023, 4:07pm

I opened a feature request. It would be helpful if you could add any code you tried so far or details that would help me. I am not much of a media player person and want this to work for you (everyone)…

Sir_Goodenough · August 9, 2023, 5:51pm

I have a beta version of the volume control BP I’m about to release if you want to test it.
It is your request after all.

(For future inquiries…) This link will not work forever and will eventually get merged into master upon release then deleted. Change ‘Nuggets’ to ‘master’ and you should be able to find it again.

github.com

SirGoodenough/HA_Blueprints/blob/22c48c1c1d6f22a52a70a2171e86f7ce8a3057fa/Scripts/volume_control_4_magic_cube.yaml

blueprint:
  name: volume_control_4_magic_cube_and_other_things - 2023-08-07
  author: SirGoodenough
  domain: script
  homeassistant:
    min_version: 2023.8.0
  source_url: https://github.com/SirGoodenough/HA_Blueprints/blob/master/Scripts/volume_control_4_magic_cube.yaml
  description: >
    This script was invented to be used with my Magic Cube Blueprints. I released
    it as a standalone Script Blueprint because because of requests to extend the
    function of my BP's with how to convert cube rotation to volume in other places.
    Research found me this [Post from Petro](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/cant-seem-to-set-volume-level-based-on-itself-from-data-template/237089/11?u=sir_goodenough)
    which had a very elegant solution to the problem, It was very easy decision
    to adopt it here.


    To use this blueprint, install it from the source in the normal way.
    After that add your unique name for the Script, and add an icon and change
    the entity_id if desired.
    You should only need to run the blueprint once, as you will be calling the

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Sir_Goodenough · August 12, 2023, 8:25am

NEW UPDATE:

AnderVentura · August 20, 2023, 12:31am

Hi!

I have your blueprint woking and set up the dimmer script. It works great!
Before using the dimmer scrrpt I set up cw and ccw rotation to change light brigthness. This way I can set transition time as I want. Is there any way to set transition time with the dimmer script? I would like to smooth the transition between brightness settings.
I’m really new to this.

Thanks!

Sir_Goodenough · August 20, 2023, 3:23pm

I don’t plan on doing so, but between the dimmer script and the volume script and other examples in the exchange, you should be able to craft something that works for transition.
Give it a shot, it’s just yaml.

AnderVentura · August 20, 2023, 4:55pm

I’ll give ir a try. I have never used YAML
But firs I have to solve another isue. The cube works when I pair it but after an hour it doesn’t respond anymore

Sir_Goodenough · August 20, 2023, 5:05pm

It’s probably asleep. Trigger it on one of the triggers not used, then try the one you want. If you are using this BP, you can install the sensor I built to see when the cube is responding, without having to have an action on everything. It helps you learn what physical actions are needed to make it happen.

AnderVentura · August 20, 2023, 5:39pm

I was looking in the device feed on ZHA. When the cube works I see triggered actions even if the don’t have automations asdociated (unused gestures). But after an hour is like communication between cube and coordinator is droped. I’m using an XBee3 dongle (supported but not recommended). Tomorrow I’ll receive a Sonoff dongle.

W1zard1111 · September 13, 2023, 12:48pm

Hello Team,

I get follow error : : Error: UndefinedError: ‘dict object’ has no attribute ‘event’
The cube is available in HA with Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus - Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 ‎ZBdongle-P
any idea ?

Thanks W1z

Sir_Goodenough · September 13, 2023, 5:28pm

You have to trigger it using the cube device. That error looks like you are hitting run in the ui editor.

W1zard1111 · September 14, 2023, 6:33am

Hi Sir Goodenough,

looks like I was not good enough that was the solution. I tested it with the run in the gui not with the device.

Many thanks
W1z

Sir_Goodenough · October 20, 2023, 5:46pm

NEW VERSION

Changelog

2023-10-20: Enhancement Add flip to side from any

unic · November 8, 2023, 4:39pm

Hi, thanks for your impressive work and documentation!

I have the problem that i can’t switch the mode. I’am in Scene mode and tried so many ways to switch it. I tried it paired, unpaired, wait 5 mins. Nothing works.

I’am Using ZHA, with Sonoff ZDBDongle-E (the newer verion and not P). I can see all the actions when I configure an automation, just the events are not fireing. Only rotate and shake.

Does anyone has a tip?

Edit: I just saw that slide is working too but battery is unknown