Add support for the new HA idasen_desk integration

[datbilling]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The https://github.com/j5lien/esphome-idasen-desk-controller repository has now been archived since the Idasen Desk is now compatible with Home Assistant and ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/idasen_desk

Describe the solution you'd like Would it be possible to update the linak-desk-card to be compatible with the new official idasen_desk integration?

Describe alternatives you've considered This linak-desk-card looks a lot nicer than the default HA cards that can be used for covers.

[KristianDukov]

Completely agree! Can we have it working?

[bernikr]

I made a fork that can work with the new height sensor: https://github.com/bernikr/linak-desk-card

To use it:

• uninstall the lineak-desk-card in hacs
• add https://github.com/bernikr/linak-desk-card in hacs as a custom repository
• install the new lineak-desk-card
• make sure the desk height sensor in home assistant is set to cm and not any other unit.

I dont have the time to maintain the fork properly so I hope @IhorSyerkov will be able to incorporate it into the main card. Right now it doesn't support the connection state and min and max_height from the config are ignored and set to 62 and 127 respectively, which are the limits of the desk height sensor.

[ammmze]

Thanks for setting up that fork. Some additional notes I have around using that with the HASS integration...

• I needed to enable the height sensor. It was disabled by default.
• I needed to change height unit of measurements to cm (it defaulted to ft for me in USA).
• To get the "connection" and "moving" binary_sensors, I had to do the following:
  • Add statistics sensor that tracks the height change. I think at present this is still a YAML only feature? Mine looks something like this:

    sensor:
      - platform: statistics
        unique_id: office_desk_height_change
        name: 'Office desk height change'
        entity_id: sensor.office_desk_height
        state_characteristic: change_sample
        max_age:
          seconds: 1
        sampling_size: 2
        precision: 3
    

  • Add 2 binary template sensor helpers (Settings > Devices & Services > Helpers > Create Helper > Template > Template a binary sensor) configured as the following:
    • "Office Desk Connected" with a template of {{ not is_state("cover.office_desk", "unavailable") }}
    • "Office Desk Moving" with a template of {{ is_number(states("sensor.office_desk_height_change")) }}

Then you should be able to use those 2 binary sensors as the connection status and moving sensors in the linak card.

[ex-nerd]

May also need additional configuration for those of us with a height offset configured (to account for a custom top). When my desk is at 28in, Home Assistant is reporting it as 28.47in. But maybe there is a chance to get this added to the official plugin (or a fork), since I know that offset value is available somewhere in the bluetooth data (shows in the Linak Desk Control app, and some python bluetooth stuff I experimented with when I originally set up my desk).

[datbilling]

@ammmze - Thanks a lot for sharing those! Do you know if it would also be possible to add one for the speed like esphome-idasen-desk-controller has?

[ammmze]

@ammmze - Thanks a lot for sharing those! Do you know if it would also be possible to add one for the speed like esphome-idasen-desk-controller has?

I haven't tried it, but I'm looking over the statistics documentation and I see a state_characteristic you can use named change_second, which I think would give you speed as cm/s.