Huge Feature Request: New Dropdown Menu in your node to prepare Output for different Backends about node-red-contrib-virtual-smart-home

[csuermann]

Just to make sure I understand this request: The output of the VSH node would then be formatted / decorated in accordance to what target system was selected, e.g. zigbee2mqtt, but the general behavior of the VSH node would not change at all, correct?

Can you share your helper function-nodes that currently do the trick for you?

[steff75]

Hi. Since nicedevil007 has not yet answered, attached my helper subflow to convert the output for deCONZ. For me it does what it should, although there is certainly much that can be optimized and extended.
deconz-helper-subflow.zip

[nicedevil007]

Oh thank you for reminding me... just forgot about my own created issue O_O

zigbee2mqtt wants commands like this:

payload: {
  brightness: 255,
  color: {hex: #FF0000},
  color_temp: 150,
  state: "on"},
topic}

brigtness must be a value between 0 and 255
color would be the easiest way to send a hex value
color_temp is a value between 150 and 500 where 150 is coldest white and 500 is warmest white.
state should be on or off but can also be ON or OFF

there is one more possible variable but I guess the transition time won't make sense to send this by voice command. I think there is no usecase for this.

[csuermann]

I thought about custom converters some more and for now decided against implementing this as part of VSH. I believe converting logic could easily be put in a function node that gets placed behind the vsh-device node. Those function nodes could even be shared with the Node-RED community.