Support for controlling input_boolean is only partly implemented

[skannea]

Bug report

Description

It is not clearly said in the documentation that you can control an 'input_boolean' as if it were a 'switch'. However, the domains "switch", "input_boolean", "binary_sensor" are all allowed according to the code.

The problem is that SwitchController class methods on, off and toggle are hard coded to the services "switch/turn_on" and so on.
For example:

    @action
    async def on(self) -> None:
        await self.call_service("switch/turn_on", entity_id=self.switch)

This works only for the switch domain.
I made this modification to make them work, but there might be some better way:

    @action
    async def on(self) -> None:
        await self.call_service( self.switch.split('.')[0] + "/turn_on", entity_id=self.switch)

AppDaemon app configuration

conbee_1:
  module: controllerx
  class: E1743SwitchController
  controller: tradfri_on_off_switch
  integration: deconz  
  switch: input_boolean.epsilon

[xaviml]

Hi @skannea,

Thank you for spotting this.

Regarding that SwitchControkker can be used for input_boolean and binary_sensor (not sure why I support this one since it cannot be modified) is in here.

Regarding the call service, it could be changed to homeassistant.toggle service which is a generic service that toggles all these entities. I will change this for next release.

Cheers,
Xavi M.

[xaviml]

This has been fixed in ControllerX v4.0.0. Now you can use switch controllers for anything that turns on/off and toggle (alert, automation, cover, input_boolean, light, media_player, script, switch).