Good morning, NSPanel Pro community. I am new to this forum. I have only recently started working with home automation and am not an expert.
I am supplementing my HA Green with an NSPP120. After using all the beta versions and seeing the update roadmap, I wanted to suggest some functionality that I think could be useful and that is not planned to be incorporated or that I have not been able to configure correctly.
To give you some context, I use all devices from different brands connected to HA via Z2M and the NSPP only through the HA Companion app, but I would like to complement it with the “Smart Alarm” and “Thermostat” modules. To do this, I would need the Zigbee2MQTT devices to appear in the NSPP as compatible sensors and actuators.
- Entities linked between HA and NSPP via MQTT: I would like NSPP to read the Z2M devices so that I can configure some inputs of “Frient Module IO” as activation sensors for the “Smart Security” and the temperature and humidity sensors and the actuator of “Aqara W500” as sensors and actuator for the “Thermostat”.
- “Virtual entities” between HA and NSPP via MQTT: The improvement mentioned above may exceed the scope of the NSPP, so I will explain it from another point of view. It is possible to manage “virtual entities” (virtual sensors and virtual actuators) in NSPP MQTT that appear in HA in the same way that controls (restart, screen power, etc.) and sensors (ambient light) appear now. These “virtual entities” could be modified in HA and also used as sensors and actuators in the NSPP to configure them in the “Smart Security” and “Thermostat” modules.
In short, these “virtual entities” could be configured in both HA and NSPP.
Other secondary issues that I believe other users have already reported and would be very useful are:
- Manually emit sounds in NSPP from HA: I would like you to be able to emit sounds in NSPP when an event occurs and complement what already works, which is turning on the screen and displaying the pop-up through HA Companion.
- Two-way “Voice Call”: I would like the “Voice Call” option to be available from the NSPP itself to the configured eWelink apps. Currently, it only works from the eWeLink app to NSPP.
- OTA update via HA using Z2M or MQTT: In the future, I would like to see the remote update feature via HA (Z2M or MQTT) implemented, as you have on other Sonoff Zigbee devices via Z2M.
- I also support your suggestion for the possible implementation of “Wave your hand to turn on the display”, although it would be ideal if it also worked when detecting people. However, I understand that with only a lux sensor (Ambient light) available, it is difficult to programme the screen to activate with high contrast and work properly.
On the other hand, I would like to thank the NSPP team for the great work they are doing in updating and modernising this device, without forgetting the interest they show in feedback and suggestions from their customers.