bwade913 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 I have a four button Yolink remote that I use to control eight different devices/scenes using short/long key presses to run different toggle programs. Today, I modified my programs to use the new Control mode with Don/Doff commands. It was a bit confusing at first but I got it to work, so I thought I'd document it for others that might want to try it. In my example, I'm using a short key press on button three to toggle a lamp in my AV room, and a long key press to toggle a ceiling light. I set button three of the Yolink remote to send Don for a short key press, and Doff for a long key press: I have master/slave programs to run the toggle programs based on the key presses. AV Lamp master is actuated by a short key press: The master program calls the slave program: Ceiling light master program is actuated by a long key press: The master program calls the slave program: Link to comment
bwade913 Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) Unfortunately, this toggle program isn't working as well as I thought. The Yolink remote seems to be resending the command, causing the toggle to flip back to the original state. This happens at varying intervals from a few seconds up to a minute. So, it is still possible to assign two functions to one button, but a toggle function was a poor choice for an example. A better example would be choosing between two AV configurations with one button. A short press choosing one setup program, and a long press choosing another. Edited March 11, 2023 by bwade913 Link to comment
bwade913 Posted March 20, 2023 Author Share Posted March 20, 2023 The Yolink NS v8.88 has been released containing a fix for the multiple command send issue which prevented Yolink remote buttons from being used to trigger toggle programs. Thanks @panda88! With the fix I'm able to successfully control eight toggle programs with a four button Yolink remote using either short or long key presses. It's similar to my first post in this thread except for these changes: 1. I configure each Yolink remote button to have a short key press send a DON, and a long key press send a DFON. 2. For the programs, I use control rather than status, I have the short press toggle program trigger on ON, and the long press toggle program trigger on Fast ON. So far it seems to work very reliably. Link to comment
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