ESP RainMaker Local Control - Scene & Schedule Not Working

[milan pipaliya]

Hello everyone,

I am working with ESP RainMaker in Local Control mode and successfully implemented switch ON/OFF and execute functionalities. However, I noticed that Scene Scheduling is not being created or working as expected in Local Control.

Has anyone faced this issue? Is there a way to enable scene scheduling in ESP RainMaker Local Control? Any guidance or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

[ESP_Piyush]

Since scenes and schedules can be created across nodes and also because scenes are also reported to Alexa and GVA, the phone apps allow creating them only through cloud. Realistically speaking, since scenes and schedules are also exposed via params, they can be set locally. People can modify the phone apps to allow this, but we don't plan to change this behavior in the default phone apps any time soon. It may be picked up some time later, but at a relatively lower priority.

[milan pipaliya]

you suggest if we make our custom app then we scene & schedule create locally?

if we want to create scene & schedule locally with default rainmaker app what change we do??

[ESP_Piyush]

As mentioned previously, this is not possible with the public ESP RainMaker apps. Since the payloads for schedules and scenes are arrays of complex JSON objects, they can't even be exposed as simple device params editable from the device control screen.

[milan pipaliya]

if we make our custom application any change we want need from firmware side? & where?

[ESP_Piyush]

There would not be any changes required in the firmware. Firmware can indeed accept scene and schedule info on local network as they are like regular parameter updates.

[milan pipaliya]

In mqtt we add our mqtt aws certificate but in http any certificate or security required?

in mqtt we will give json through AWS , but in http how we send json??

[ESP_Piyush]

Creating a secure channel between the phone app and the node is already managed by the underlying library in the phone app. The exact same JSON payload sent over the REST API can be sent to the node via local control. In case you are indeed working on adding the support in phone app, it will help if you ask specific questions on these GitHub projects:
https://github.com/espressif/esp-rainmaker-ios
https://github.com/espressif/esp-rainmaker-android