Adjust Custom Fan Card for Air Purifiers

[13robin37]

Currently the custom_card_saxel_fan by @saxel works only for traditional fans (which is fine), however Air Purifiers like the Xiaomi ones work with the fan integration for the most part as well.

In my opinion the current button which triggers call-service fan.osciallate should switch between fan modes Off and Auto for purifiers. Should I set up a new custom card or integrate something within the existing card?

[CM000n]

Thank you so much for figuring this out! In my opinion, we should avoid redundant cards that look the same and do the same thing, just a little differently. So I would rather prefer the second solution by feeling. But let's wait for the feedback from @saxel. Maybe he has another opinion about it.

[saxel]

Hello, sorry for the delayed response (just got back from a short vacation, also dealing with aftermath from flooding reaching into my apartment). I also have the same brand of air purifier but I haven't found a use case for controlling fan speed and off/auto. Mine is strictly controlled via automations.

I suppose if you want to control the air purifier fan speed with a slider then I agree with @CM000n that the 2nd suggestion makes sense, if it is okay that the slider is visible even when the air purifier fan speed is set to Auto.

@13robin37 do you want to give it a try with implementing? Otherwise I can have a look either later today or within a couple of days depending on my time available.

[13robin37]

@saxel I will try to implement something in the next few days when I have some free time.

[13robin37]

Apologies for the delay on this one, we've moved and I'm slowly picking up speed on Home Assistant projects again! 🙃

[lucasfr]

I'm not sure whether I am missing something but it would also be good to hide the oscillate button. Could not find anything in the docs.