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Hedda opened this issue Apr 14, 2020 · 3 comments
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[REQUEST] Allow setting strength of "TX Power" configuration for radios with Power Amplifier (PA) #372

Hedda opened this issue Apr 14, 2020 · 3 comments

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Hedda commented Apr 14, 2020 •
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Allow user to change/set "TX Power" for Power Amplifier (PA) if available option in the radio library?

This is a follow up to the requests zigpy/zigpy-cc#33 and zigpy/zigpy-znp#11

If and when radio libraries allow configuration of custom "TX Power" (TX PWD) settings on radio modules which feature integrated or external Power Amplifier (PA) then Zigpy too needs to be able to allow users to set a custom "TX Power" setting for that radio module via the software using zigpy, like from Home Assistant's ZHA UI configurations, or?

It should be noted that even if radio modules have this type of "TX Power" feature and a function to set a custom configuration, they will also have a default setting which is always automatically used if no custom "TX Power" setting is asked to be set.

PS: As I understand, in the case of TI CC chips, those have their maximum dBm hardcoded within safe limits so that there is no way to destroy the HW through these settings. It is just that depending on the frequency band, too high dBm values may not be legal outdoors and/or indoors depending on your country regulations, and therefore TI has set a low default value so that it is legal in all countries if one does not increase the values.
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Unless this could be configured across all zigpy supported radios, I'd leave it to the radio lib implementation. Could be implemented with pending changes in zigpy. For example take a look at https://github.com/zigpy/bellows/commits/new-zigpy-init/dev which implement EZSP config customization.

@Hedda Hedda changed the title [REQUEST] Allow configuration of TX power for radios with built-in Power Amplifier (PA) frontend [REQUEST] Allow setting strength of "TX Power" configuration for radios with Power Amplifi 8000 er (PA) Apr 15, 2020
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Hedda commented Apr 15, 2020 •
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FYI, apparently @puddly has already enabled "TXPower" settings in 3f6968d for zigpy-znp radio library.

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Hedda commented Apr 17, 2020 •
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As I understand this is related to #381 as "TX Power" is an example of an optional extension that is maybe not used by all radio libraries will use but zigpy / ZHA need to be able to permit and configure its option setting.

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