Automated Dust Collection

General
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Since you have a manual mode for the gates, you can prob keep them dumb and rely on hass, because theres an escape hatch. For the extractor youre right it probably needs to keep a certain amount of internal logic and be controllable by mqtt. Rather than making it fully dumb could prob use mqtt to change its current config and ‘hit the buttons’ ie change timers and hit start/stop automatically etc.

Might be value in the extractor being able to tell if the gate system has gone into manual mode? Ie like one of the much older plans about having a signal line go high.

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Probably, but I’ll leave that on the server side of things. I was thinking I might put a digital input on the solenoid for the blast gate can report on the status of the gate, manual mode or not. I just need to work a logic voltage shifter in.

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oh i was thinking for when the server stuff is unavailable. hence a signal line thing thats like a fallback? the server can def tell it whats up if need be (although it prob wont)