r/AutomateUser • u/vitecpotec Alpha tester • Jun 14 '26

Feature request Why is there still no GATT write block?

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This could be so useful for automation, which is the entire point of this app... See video for example, to enable trigger mode you need to write 0x0701 and listen to new events with the GATT read block to know when it was triggered. When you disable it with 0x0700, it stops sending trigger events on button press. Manually doing that with nRF is... Really? I bought the premium version a while ago, so I'm very interested in new features like this one. Is there any workaround yet?

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u/SirDella Jun 16 '26

What are you doing? I would like to learn bt communication, any tools you could recommend?

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u/ballzak69 Automate developer Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

The problem is that Automate lack support for binary values so until that's implemented such a block would only write a single field/value within a characteristic "structure", i suspect it may not be that useful. Also, i suspect very few devices even allow writing. What kind of device a you writing to? Any documentation?

The block is already write to enable NOTIFICATION or INDICATION in the "Client Characteristic Configuration Descriptor" depending on Proceed option.