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Fix homekit handling of 0 light brightness and fan speed #29962

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@fuzzie360 fuzzie360 commented Dec 15, 2019

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Replaces the fix in #27076.

Background:

When you turn on a HomeKit accessory it will try and restore the last brightness/rotation speed. But if it is set to 0%, HomeKit will update the brightness to 100% as it thinks 0% is off. This leads to unexpected behaviors such as:

  • HomeKit "forgets" the brightness setting when it is at the lowest setting.
  • On reboot, toggling on the device might cause the brightness to go to 100%.
  • The brightness in Home app does not match the actual device brightness.

I tried to do a screen recording to document this bug but it seems I need a proper camera to capture what is going on. It was more obvious on v100, but ever since I updated to v103 I cannot easily show it on the screen recording any more because the actual device brightness de-syncs from the Home app.

How is it fixed:

  • The initial value when the accessory is initialized is changed from 0% to 100%. update_state will immediately update it to the proper value after initialization.
  • If there is an update to the device brightness or rotation speed from home assistant and it is 0% but the device is reported to still be on, the brightness or rotation speed will be mapped to 1%. If the device is reported to be off, the update is ignored (off devices do not need to update Home app, Home app already knows to show 0%).

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Stock component:

https://youtu.be/eGzqeLLD-5o

-Light already on at minimum brightness
-Turn off successfully
-Turn on successfully to minimum brightness
-Suddenly brightness changes to 100% but Home app still displays minimum brightness
-Change brightness to 5%, is less bright than previously, therefore it is obviously not at the minimum brightness. (Side note: notice the Home app UI at 0% brightness it displays the OFF symbol when trying to change the brightness.

With fix:

https://youtu.be/vOotsVOResc

-Light already on at minimum brightness (now mapped to 1%)
-Turn off successfully
-Light turns on successfully and stays at minimum bright (now mapped to 1%)

Sorry for the music, had to mute the audio but cant find the option on Youtube.

Of course there is countless other scenarios and devices not covered by these videos. But I just want to show you what I'm dealing with here. I believe the changes in this patch will result in the best experience for most devices. Devices should not report 0 brightness and rotation speed anyway so if it breaks for them technically they only work previously by accident.

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frenck commented Dec 15, 2019

Please rebase your PR onto the latest dev branch to get the build error fixed.

Dev automation moved this from Needs review to Reviewer approved Dec 16, 2019
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Ok to merge when build passes 🎉

@balloob balloob merged commit 92fd3e3 into home-assistant:dev Dec 20, 2019
Dev automation moved this from Reviewer approved to Done Dec 20, 2019
@pvizeli pvizeli added this to the 0.103.3 milestone Dec 20, 2019
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* Fix homekit handling of 0 light brightness and fan speed

* Update homekit tests for new initial brightness/speed value
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