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Zigbee
Xiaomi Cube (Zigbee) - usability - options - how to - discussion
As I already suggested in another thread:
BTW the cube is a really funny device. So many different options, just the usability... I think the cube deserves its own thread on this forum, just to feature all use cases that the community comes up with.
First a list of actions where the cube reacts on:
- Movement, Slide
- Movement, Shake
- Roll 90 degrees - specific face on top
- Roll 180 degrees - specific face on top
- From specific face to specific face
- Turning, specific angle, left or right
- Battery level
The above are the ones I "discovered". There could be more..? Maybe the shake/slide movement is only one?
My son and me have played around with several scenario's just for fun. Some things are practical, others are not so. Some examples:
Working well:
Turn left, right as in volume up/down or light dim up/down.
Not so advisable:
Shaking, as in all lights off.
Sometimes even the smallest bump to the table would leave us all in the dark...
This is where I stand at the moment, just feel free to jump in with your personal idea's and experiences.
BTW the cube is a really funny device. So many different options, just the usability... I think the cube deserves its own thread on this forum, just to feature all use cases that the community comes up with.
First a list of actions where the cube reacts on:
- Movement, Slide
- Movement, Shake
- Roll 90 degrees - specific face on top
- Roll 180 degrees - specific face on top
- From specific face to specific face
- Turning, specific angle, left or right
- Battery level
The above are the ones I "discovered". There could be more..? Maybe the shake/slide movement is only one?
My son and me have played around with several scenario's just for fun. Some things are practical, others are not so. Some examples:
Working well:
Turn left, right as in volume up/down or light dim up/down.
Not so advisable:
Shaking, as in all lights off.
Sometimes even the smallest bump to the table would leave us all in the dark...
This is where I stand at the moment, just feel free to jump in with your personal idea's and experiences.
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And put it on the floor in the middle of the living room.
It didn't took long before my young kids discovered it. Sheer fun!
I have a flow for turning my Sonos volume up/down. Sonos running on my Synology.
In a php file i request the actual volume and increase it by 5% every time i turn the cube to the right, decrease it by 5% when turning to the left. Even the wife grabs the cube for turning the volume up instead of looking for the remote!
Roting the cube changing my volume of the Teufel.
Pauze, play, previous and next song
Ratating 90 degrees is getting our favorite radio station, and rotating it 90 degrees again gets another radio station. The same for rotating 180 degrees.
2 times knocking turns music on our off...
And moving the cube tells our son to stop talking and start eating (including lights movement on homey
Shaking it let homey ask me if he can shut everything down (leaving the house)
I think I have to remove it or she will remove me or the homey ;-)
Have a hard time getting the '2 x kloppen' to work. How fast do you need to knock the cube. And is it a mild tap of do you have to knock it hard?
Haha...no wonder it didn't work...
Thanks!
normally, I would have responded with RTFM.... but that’s a bit harsh with Xiaomi devices...
Slowly I am befriending the Cube. Flipping and tapping are clear to me now. Blush blush...
Next are the rotation and moving...
Moving the Cube
The trigger card has 3 labels (Target face, Source face and Cube Beweging (English and Dutch are mixed here). Does anyone have a flow example of a way this is used?
Thanks for helping and your patience!
Dimming with the Cube
I would like to use the Cube to dim lights. I have a Dim Slider that works with other flows (and in HomeyDash). How to use the rotation of the Cube to dim my lights?
Managed to get it to work :-)
I made these 2 flows, a Better Logic variable (named Dim-slider) and the Cube's relative rotation.
My Hue lights copy the value of the Dim_slider, which is updated by the Cube's relative rotation.
PS
@TedTolboom
Yes, the manuals are not only tiny, they are in Chinese too!
I read https://github.com/TedTolboom/com.xiaomi-mi-zigbee/blob/master/docs/README_cube.md a couple of times. That was of great help!
I've tried using the Spotify-app but it's not performing well so far.
Thanks for the inspiration though! This works very well with Fibaro Dimmer2;
Volume is handeld by harmony -->teufel
Play pauze next previous directly with the spotify app
If Flip90, then set Hue to random color (hue app)
and
If Shaken, then tell 'The temperature today will ben xx' (open weather app)
And what stickers did u use?
did anyone experience problems with xiaomi zigbee devices since updat to 1.5.9 ? My zigbee xiaomi devices show up as “not connected” ???
This topic is only about user cases of the Cube.