Hi,

From the Flic Twist promo text:

"Unlock the full potential of your smart home devices, from lights to music and blinds, with Flic Twist versatile functionality."

How can it be versatile, when there are

• no options to control it or make customizations for it in the Hub SDK
• it supports only 4 different providers total (at the moment) for the twist functionality
• Only 1 way to use it as a volume control(ler): Buying a (relatively) - new Sonos system (hub + speaker(s)) .
• no developer documentation specifically for the Twist anywhere AND
• the button can only be connected to a hub, which makes it a real nightmare to reverse engineer if you REALLY wanted to do something specific with it, not related to LIFX, Sonos, IKEA or Philips Hue. So even if I was capable of it, I wouldn't even be able to hack more versatility into the thing….without using A LOT of time and effort.

The main functionality for other media players/music systems etc. (Spotify Connect, Bose, OSC, Chromecast/Android TV, VLC ++) is already there (!)
Anyway... I don't have a Sonos system (and I can't afford a new one), so at the moment my Flic Twist already has a fine layer of dust on it, and unfortunately it's a major disappointment. It has so much wasted potential though.

@Emil said in Flic Twist - not what I was hoping for:

If you have a priority list (order of importance for you), that would be even more helpful to help us prioritise.

Priority list

• Spotify Connect Volume Control

• Chromecast volume control

• User customizable rotary encoder (like «internet request» only wiith a scalable/dimmable value/parameter)

• IKEA Trådfri dimmer

Thanks for clearing that up, @Emil !

Andreas

@Emil Although you could still open up for ALL connectivity regardless of provider, if you just exposed the twist action functionality in the SDK and documentation. To me, that seems like THE obvious thing to do, instead of adding support for yet another smart home proprietary protocol that isn't even available to the general market yet. Apart from money , I don't see any good reasons for not documenting it just as extensively as the Flic 2, and making (all of) the functionality availble so people can use it for what they want. That was why I got a Flic button in the first place, 9 years ago. Because it inspired creative solutions and new areas of use. This inspires turning on and off the light.

@andreas-lorentsen

That didn't age very well….
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