Where to find "parameter" for Chowmain Home Assistant Driver

[DLite]

I am trying to execute a custom service command in the Chowmain Home Assistant Driver.  I am a rank newbie at HA, so I apologize for the dumb question.  The Chowmain "execute service command" requires:  1) Service Command; 2) Entity ID; 3) Parameter; and 4) Parameter Value.  I know 1, 2, and 4 for the command I want to issue, but for the life of me, I can't figure out where to find the parameter name.  

I have a custom integration with AC Infinity Fan Controllers.  There is an Entity for the power level on a fan.  t is a number type, so I looked in the number.py file within the AC Infinity integration folder.  Is this the right place to look for the parameter name?  Should I be looking somewhere else?  

What confuses me is that, within HA, I can control the power level simply with the entity name and the power level value; I don't need any additional variables, so I'm not sure where to look for the parameter that the Chowmain driver needs.  What am I missing here?

Thanks!

[Andrew luecke]

You should be able to use the Home assistant Fan driver and bind it to the entity ID instead (then program against that)

 

Andy

 

[DLite]

8 minutes ago, Andrew luecke said:

You should be able to use the Home assistant Fan driver and bind it to the entity ID instead (then program against that)

 

Andy

 

Thanks.  That is definitely what I was hoping to do, but, for whatever reason, this Entity doesn't seem to have been set up as a fan by the HA integration developers.  And, I did confirm that it doesn't show up as an eligible device in the Fan driver.  This is why I was trying to puzzle out the custom service command.

[Andrew luecke]

Its possible its an old version, or there could be other reasons.. Maybe best to lodge a support ticket, or get your dealer to take a look. It could also be that it's using HVAC integration instead of the standard way

[DLite]

2 hours ago, Andrew luecke said:

Its possible its an old version, or there could be other reasons.. Maybe best to lodge a support ticket, or get your dealer to take a look. It could also be that it's using HVAC integration instead of the standard way

Oh gosh, this was indeed a dumb question.  I missed the part of the documentation that explained where to find the parameter in the Lua output.  Sorry about that.  Anyway, I've got it working now!  Thanks a lot.