MK-Blindcontrol Firmware V8 moved to Github.com

#1

Mk-blindcontrol firmware V8 has now been placed on the github system

https://github.com/mountain-pitt/mk-blindcontrol

#2

Awesome…always wanted to ‘tinker’ with your code. FYI…it may be best now to move the “call home” for the Version Check to GitHub rather than your own server. Changing this:

String url = "http://mountaineagle-technologies.com.au/tasmota/version.json";

to

String url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mountain-pitt/mk-blindcontrol/main/version.json";

Also, I’ll IM you some changes you can make on the “Home Assistant Auto Discovery with TILT” code section now that
platform: MQTT
is depreciated replaced by
mqtt:
cover:

#3

Thanks for feedback.

This is part of the code to generate discovery.
Could you let me know which variable needs changing.

I have setup a new instance oh home assistant and the current auto discovry still works…

root["platform"] = "mqtt";
root["~"] = _identifier;
root["name"] = String(mqtt_topic);
root["unique_id"] = _identifier;
root["command_topic"] = "cmnd/"+_identifier+"/POWER";
root["state_topic"] =  "stat/"+_identifier+"/STATE";
root["availability_topic"] = "tele/"+_identifier+"/LWT";
root["retain"] = false;
root["payload_open"] = "0";
root["payload_close"] = "100";
root["state_open"] = "0";
root["state_closed"] = "100";
root["payload_available"] = "Online";
root["payload_not_available"] = "Offline";

if (String(auto_discovery) == "ENABLED-TILT")
{
root["position_open"] = 0;
root["position_closed"] = 100;
root["tilt_command_topic"] = "cmnd/"+_identifier+"/tilt";
root["tilt_status_topic"] = "stat/"+_identifier+"/tilt-state";
root["tilt_min"] = 0;
root["tilt_max"] = 100;
root["tilt_closed_value"] = 0;
root["tilt_opened_value"] = 100;
}
root["device_class"] = "blind";

Help file in GUI will be pointing to github WiKi in next compile


https://github.com/mountain-pitt/mk-blindcontrol/wiki

the firmware is encoded for http at this stage, I have started to implement https but does come with some overheads.
Work in progress to get HTTPS going

Have proto version running at this stage