#Swarm Sync feature requests

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tribal fossil
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I would like to have some kind of timer or auto shutdown feature so the lamp turns itself off after a defined time.

I can see myself using it as a night light but if I fall asleep I don't want it running all through the night, so if it just turns itself off after like 4 hours for example, that would be nifty.

Maybe also max timer to prevent overheating? (I don't know if that ever happens on lava lamps)

Also an option to randomize colour periodically would be nice. Could also be a setting how often the colours change when not in stream sync mode.

hoary patio
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Vedal talked about adjusting the delay for the lava lamps so that the colours change at the same time as Neuro's does.

Isn't it better to have an option to do that in the app itself? Or is that impossible? After all people have different latencies to the stream, it would be way better if they could adjust it themselves, like adjusting the timings in rhythm games according to their PC setup latency.

kind cape
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Neuro should be allowed to Turn on and off the lamps LED's

But not the heating element, that could hurt the wax

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Or another sidea could be giving neuro the ability to do some sort of rgb mode. That is constantly changing colors

polar sleet
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@mortal coral is the dev, he said color features will be implemented later after connection issues are resolved

polar sleet
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All add this question to the FAQ

mortal coral
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I’m not sure that’d be possible easily (time adjustment)

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When the data is sent is purely vedals discretion so unless we store it somewhere externally (which Vedal wants to avoid due to ddos concerns), it’d be hard for him to know that number

rugged ether
tender patio
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i'd def also love to be able to schedule the lamp powering on and off

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since the recommendation is to not have it on for more than 10 hours and then let it cool down fully after you do turn it off

clear hatch
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I would also like to make a feature request. If the app can automatically switch off the lamp in the future, it should also display how long the lamp has been switched on. And possibly also how long the lamp still needs to cool down.

small wren
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a automatic colour changing mode would be nice

mortal coral
muted fog
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I would like a notification when the lamp turns on in stream sync mode

still pulsar
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UI Related, these are just nitpick would be nice changes that makes the app feel more natural

  • Swap the Options and Close button places on Android. The settings are usually on the Right side due to one handed operations
  • The Back gesture closes the app instead of contextually closing the page
  • I cannot click on the brightness slider like I can on the color wheel. Clicking in the middle of the slider doesn't set it to ~50%
devout steeple
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What I'd love to see is some API which lets me control the lights of my own lava lamp. That'd be nice

tight nacelle
still pulsar
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Ill create a PR for it or separate repo

polar sleet
full cove
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I dont know if its been said here but i really wanna be able to turn stream sync on and also keep the colour i like until the stream begins (unless im doing something wrong)

still pulsar
# polar sleet

For the RGB mode, maybe we could use a dip switch for the heater as well

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Although, in my experience, when the lava settles on the bottom, the light gets really dim

bright owl
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If anyone is wondering why you'd hook it up to a smart home, one obvious use case is disabling the lamp's ability to turn on when you're not at home (regardless of Stream Sync) by putting it on a smart outlet that shuts off when you leave.

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What I really want, though, is to get Home Assistant to check the Schedule Bot on bluesky or mastodon (or better yet, some hypothetical Vedal ApI or RSS feed or some such), and then tell the lamp to turn on stream sync mode if and only if:

  1. A stream is scheduled soon,
  2. It's a lamp capable stream (i.e. Neuro, not Evil), and
  3. I'm actually at home

And then ideally I'd automate turning Stream Sync back off (if it's on) to restore manual color control when the stream ends -- or more likely, if it remains offline for more than a few minutes. (Home Assistant does have a Twitch integration that can probably handle detecting that.)

polar sleet
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Dark mode (Evil skin), idk why, but would be cool, perhaps make it like a secret?

kindred garden
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A feature whre lamp automatically turns off after 5-8h without activity?

rugged ether
lean flame
tribal flare
wanton granite
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Vedal, I know you basically roped yourself into creating the smart lavalamp and you bit more than you can chew, but seriously man? no rgb cycle option?

hollow berry
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If you have home assistant that is

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If not it should come in an app update when connectivity issues are resolved

pearl igloo
versed gull
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An option to have the light on, but no the heat, to hide the gross yellow color it develops would be nice

inner current
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Dunno how achievable this is, but a way to hook the lighting up to Corsair iCUE could be cool. Maybe you could use one of the current integrations and hook it up through a Philips HUE bridge (RGB hub)?

still pulsar
winged river
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The swarm sync is cool, but it would be awesome if it also sync'ed with Evil's globe since it starts heating when the stream starts but then just stays on red the whole time since it's not hooked into Evil's color changing.

green pine
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Hello, I wanted to suggest adding a widget to the swarm sync app to turn on and off (and perhaps do more things) without having to go in the app

mortal coral
mortal coral
inner current
still pulsar
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Wait Corsair uses zigbee?

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oh damn

inner current
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and that has an integration with corsair

still pulsar
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Technically the only two options I can see is doing via HomeAssistant as we have the Lavalamp in HA or using custom built tool for syncing via tinytuya

versed gull
queen pagoda
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Is there an actual list of feature requests being kept anywhere or is it just this discussion? NeuroHuh

polar sleet
pure marsh
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I would like to request that as a lava lamp feature... Neurosama does not burn my house down.

tribal fossil
frail cape
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Currently the lamp turns red if sync to stream is turned on while there is no stream or it's an eliv stream. Some sort of status text in the app would be nice

Stuff like:
"Sync on, no stream detected"
"Sync on, stream scheduled, lamp preheating"
"Sync on, stream online, neuro not detected"
"Sync on, stream online"
"Unable to sync, check internet"

polar sleet
queen pagoda
mortal coral
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you could potentially request for vedal to tweak what his end does, for example the initial color could be indicative of what's going on red = default color / preheating, pink = neuro stream, some other color = non-lamp stream, but I doubt it gets into the app itself

inner cosmos
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Reposting here, apologies for anything already called out

Would love if I could use a custom color AND have stream sync on. Like if I sync, it is red at all times. Would want to select a color and have it change when stream starts

mortal coral
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it's on the list, have been working to iron out the pairing inconsistencies in both OS first

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which im hoping now ios is resolved at least to the extent android is, so I can look at the feature requests more now

mortal coral
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same with sleep vs. time

polar sleet
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No its rainbow, idk why i wrote rgb

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If you are working on a rainbow mode, is it possible to add ability to create your own pattern?

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I’d recommend checking out led controllers / apps

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Okay it’s kinda crazy how many different led controllers apps are there

mortal coral
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yeah so just different modes of the strobe-like effect ok

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makes sense

pulsar mortar
# mortal coral same with sleep vs. time

I think a sleep timer would be the lamp turning off after x amount of time being on and/or idle. Time would be setting a specific time of day for the lamp to turn on and off.

hollow berry
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Don’t know if this would be possible, but a chrome extension that reads the stream latency from the twitch stats and then uses that to sync the lamp to stream? Don’t know how reliable it would be or if it would even be worth the time

pallid summit
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Is there a way to set the normal color and do Neuro synch? Effectively, if she isn't live, I want it whatever color I pick. Effectively a "stream offline" default?

grave storm
pulsar mortar
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Can this connect to google home or amazon?

polar sleet
polar sleet
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I have a suggestion for
• users with multiple lamps, have a button for each lamp, that would open up list of the lava lamps, and you could choose which lamps you want to apply that exact color to.
Example:
Lamp A: red
Lamp B: blue
Lamp C: green

Chose lamp A, open the list of lamps, pick lamp B, click yes

After:
Lamp A: red
Lamp B: red
Lamp c: green

Ex 2. Pick Lamp B, open the list, choose all lamps, click yes
Lamp A, Lamp B, Lamp C: blue
(Note rainbow mode would apply the same way)
• add a box to type out a color rgb or hex codes

pulsar mortar
# polar sleet Explain?

Just looing to see if it could be included in the ecosystem. It would take advantage of the fact that these smart home devices already have timers, ect, and it would just need to recievethe command from the linked service.

I don't know how hard this would be and I don't know how often google and amazon update their services, but it would introduce a lot of features people want. Though it runs the risk of not being compatible with sync to stream. It could also just not be possible, idk much about how to be included in these programs.

stuck ether
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Feature request:
(With/without my phone nearby, don't care if implemented in the app or lamp.)

If stream on, use synced color, otherwise slowly cycle through colors.

tender oasis
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I know there more pressing issues to sort out, but i wish there was a way to control/pair the lamp without an app that relies on google play dependencies.

rugged ether
tender oasis
rugged ether
tender oasis
pallid summit
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When I sit down in the morning and turn the lamp on, from "All lights", I get "Unknown error reaching device". If I click onto the lamp then it works.

mortal coral
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yeah theres an issue if you dont have the check device status toggle on, the toggle from the device list doesnt work until you specifically click on the device

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the technical reasoning is tuya tries to avoid loading more data than it needs to and the device list, without check device status turned on, is missing a way to make tuya load it from a fresh start

pallid summit
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Gotcha. I had seen that option but I figured I didn't need an indicator in the list so skipped it.

mortal coral
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yeah it should work without but is a minor bug rn

pallid summit
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So clicking into the lamp forces a connection open.

mortal coral
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the app just needs to load the cloud device list in some way and itll work from the device list

mortal coral
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just wanted to drop this here since this place has mentioned a few of these features in requests, but there should be a new android version (1.0.1) which adds the following features. ios will come a few days later if the android version appears to be stable.

  • Added a "show more / less options" in the device control, this will show several of the new controls mentioned below
    • There is also a small bar at the top of the control area, tapping it will hide part of the controls. Tapping it again brings it back to normal, this is to help devices with smaller or wider resolutions see the brightness bar
  • Added the ability to manually rescale the UI in the settings. There's stuff done in the background for this, but this will apply on top of that.
  • Added strobe / RBG light mode where the app will cycle through up to 5 colors
  • Added a timer which will turn on or off the lamp after a period of time (up to 23h59m, can't go higher due to limitation on the tuya chip DP)
    • Note that sometimes the UI will go out of sync depending how you interact with this feature, but it should be minor and fixable by reopening the device screen
  • Added a toggle for "DND Mode" which basically just prevents the lamp from turning on automatically if you have a power outage overnight
    • Note that despite the name, you can still interact with it as usual. DND is just how Tuya named the DP, but it doesn't really block anything but what I mentioned.
  • Added a few new icons to make it more obvious when the lamp is in Stream Sync, DND Mode, or has a Timer active. Tapping them shows some more details (including when a Timer is planned to end)
  • You can now update colors while stream sync mode is on without is turning off stream sync
polar sleet
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You are the best neurOkay

mortal coral
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supposedly not visible to all yet, but should be in the near future

pallid summit
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I had to go to Play to force update but got it. Nice. Changing colors will briefly change the lamp but then it resynced when she changed it next. That's great.

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RGB mode does turn off stream synch tho

pallid summit
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RGB works good. I was busy for a bit, had to turn the lamp back on after Neuro pulled the plug on me 😛 Now it's cycling colors.

mortal coral
pallid summit
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I think the main thing I would want now is to take power control from Neuro

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or... If my lamp was already on when she tried to turn it on, she won't turn it off.

pallid summit
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Not entirely color accurate, but RGB 🙂 mine is already yellowed but you can't really see that lights out.

mortal coral
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i think it just sometimes gets turned off by weirdness in the stream sync server rather than it being because it was already on

pallid summit
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I'll watch it next stream and see. I turn it on some 4-5 hours before typical stream time

rotund quartz
exotic prairie
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I'd love if during Evil Streams the lamp wouldn't just remain red.

It's a small hassle to turn off Stream Sync during Evils streams to change colors manually - then turn it back on after the stream.
It'd be nice if either the lamp interacted with Evils Plasma globe the same way or if the lamp would at least periodically change color at random in case Evil isn't supposed to interact with it at all.

pallid summit
pallid summit
pallid summit
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She turned it off 😛 The slider in the app still claims its powered though. Toggled it off and back on again to turn on.