Natural speed Homekit switch

[kristofferR]

Thanks for the great plugin, got my new Xiaomi Pedestal 2S fan set up in HA/HomeKit in no time with it.

However, I really like the natural mode of the fan, and would like to switch between it and constant speed using a HomeKit switch(like the presets I disabled were).

How do I create such a switch, so I can toggle Natural mode through HomeKit/Siri? I'd still like to use the speed slider.

[TDK2525]

Id love to figure this out too!

[damianpasek]

Here is the solution which I'm using, custom switch using template. Later on you can expose the switch to Homekit. Maybe this will help you 🙂

- platform: template
  switches:
    bedroom_fan_natural:
      friendly_name: "Bedroom Fan Natural Mode"
      icon_template: mdi:weather-windy
      value_template: >- 
        {{ state_attr('fan.bedroom_fan', 'natural_speed')|int > 0 }}
      turn_on:
        service: xiaomi_miio_fan.fan_set_natural_mode_on
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom_fan
      turn_off:
        service: xiaomi_miio_fan.fan_set_natural_mode_off
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom_fan

[TDK2525]

Here is the solution which I'm using, custom switch using template. Later on you can expose the switch to Homekit. Maybe this will help you 🙂

- platform: template
  switches:
    bedroom_fan_natural:
      friendly_name: "Bedroom Fan Natural Mode"
      icon_template: mdi:weather-windy
      value_template: >- 
        {{ state_attr('fan.bedroom_fan', 'natural_speed')|int > 0 }}
      turn_on:
        service: xiaomi_miio_fan.fan_set_natural_mode_on
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom_fan
      turn_off:
        service: xiaomi_miio_fan.fan_set_natural_mode_off
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom_fan

Thank you so much for sharing and I apologize in advance for my n00b (just started on my Home Assistant journey :)) follow-up questions:

I assume that I need to put this into my configuration.yaml right? When I do that I get the following error when trying to restart home assistant, and I cannot figure out what I need to change to fix it:

Failed to call service homeassistant/restart. The system cannot restart because the configuration is not valid: Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: while parsing a block mapping in "/config/configuration.yaml", line 3, column 1 expected , but found '-' in "/config/configuration.yaml", line 26, column 1

Line 26 in my config file is the - platform: template line

Any tips on what I need to change?

[TDK2525]

I figure it out, I found a prior example to what was pasted here and I could see that there was a missing line, so if anyone else finds this post then add a line at the top with "switch:" in it to the above code and put it in your configuration.yaml file and then it should work.

[NewsGuyTor]

The problem with this code is that it creates a totally different switch which isn't grouped with the fan. Creating grouped switches is clearly possible somehow, as the preset mode switches demonstrates.