SwitchBot documentation

[AlanMackie]

Hi, I have installed your component and HASSIO finds the entity no problem but "pressing" does nothing.

Does the setup require a SwitchBot hub?

Switchbot works fine via my iphone app but not via HASSIO.

Thanks

Alan

[cagnulein]

Hi, no you don't need a hub but you need a Bluetooth adapter connected to your HASS installation

[AlanMackie]

Great thanks. That is what I thought. I have a bluetooth adaptor. How do I connect to HASS? I am running it as a virtual machine on a PC.

[cagnulein]

First of all you need to connect the adapter into the VM. Which VM are you using? Virtual box? You have to select the adapter in the usb menu

[AlanMackie]

yes, using virtual box. I have just added the bluetooth USB device on virtual box and also added the device_tracker:

• platform: bluetooth_tracker

And restarted my Hass install.

No Joy

I didnt start virtual box...

[cagnulein]

Let's have a look into the logs, what did they say?

[AlanMackie]

I have restarted the VM. When I looking in known_devices.yaml my bluetooth speaker is listed. I deleted that from known_devices and restarted HA and it added the speaker back in.

It is the only device listed there. So bluetooth seems to be finding some devices.

switchbot is added as an entity, so that bit is working.

[cagnulein]

ok so now please add in your configuration.yaml these lines:

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    switchbot_press: debug

and try to press the switchbot from lovelace

[AlanMackie]

done that and not showing in the HA log

[cagnulein]

Did you restart HASS and did you turn on the entity?

[cagnulein]

If yes ,post all the logs. It must be something

[bezlitza]

good afternoon. Installed your switch bot integration. It doesn't work. ((I have hassia on a raspberry pi+). I apologize if my English is bad, I use a translator. I am from Russia

[bezlitza]

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza could you please post some logs? has the raspberry the bluetooth? is it connected to the HASS correctly?

[bezlitza]

logs.txt

[bezlitza]

Bluetooth is available. There was a bluetooth tracker in the configuration (and it worked). now I will add ble tracker.

[bezlitza]

Added ble tracker and didn't help. I have an esp 32 ble gateway. Is it possible to connect to it?

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza did you set to debug into the configuration.yaml? could you please provide the configuration.yaml about the switchbot integration?

[bezlitza]

For some reason, my integrations have stopped being deleted. I delete the lines in the configurator, but the device is still there after reboot, but in the unvialiable state

[bezlitza]

I installed it. something should be displayed and where?

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza you should see the switchbot in the entities

[bezlitza]

[bezlitza]

the first three are deleted

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza seems fine, so now try to turn it on in the dashboard

[bezlitza]

I've tried it a bunch of times. and through lovelace and here. Nothing happens at all. In lovelace the button turns off after a few seconds

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza so the plug-in reacts, so please put switchbot_press to debug, give a turn on cycle and post the logs

[bezlitza]

logs.txt

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza which version of HASS do you have?

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza post your configuration.yaml too

[bezlitza]

confyaml.txt 0.109.6

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza i think you have to change in this way in order to have debug log

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    switchbot_press: debug

I will check also the log tomorrow, let's try with this configuration and I hope we will see some useful information

[bezlitza]

logs.txt

[bezlitza]

thanks

[bezlitza]

Thank you very much. your integration started working after manipulating bluetooth on your phone. I manually connected the switch bot and disabled it in the phone settings and everything worked. Now it is controlled from both a smartphone and ha

[cagnulein]

@bezlitza strange, i didn't anything on my phone side in order to have HA working. Anyway good job!

[cagnulein]

@AlanMackie did you solve the issue? any updates?

[AlanMackie]

    Thanks for asking. I only had a little time yesterday to try some fixes and won’t have much today either. 

Keen to get it fixed though so will be back in touch. Really appreciate all your support.

    Regards

Alan Mackie

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[bezlitza]

Good evening. it stopped working again. I don't know why.

[bezlitza]

logs.txt

[cagnulein]

logs.txt

i checked the log and i can't find any trace at all of switchbot pressing, are you sure you are asking to press it?

try adding:

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    pyswitchbot: debug

[bezlitza]

logs.txt

[bezlitza]

I press. and nothing happens.

[cagnulein]

I press. and nothing happens.

i saw no evidence at all in your log, maybe you're pressing a wrong entity? bluetooth tracker it's still working? maybe the switchbot is too far and only sometime works?

[bezlitza]

Just deleted device trackers and put switchbot on raspberry. It doesn't work again.

[cagnulein]

Just deleted device trackers and put switchbot on raspberry. It doesn't work again.

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    pyswitchbot: debug
    switchbot_press: debug
    switchbot: debug

You must have something to the logs if you enable all these 3 debug log... Did you try to search the switchbot from the raspberry with bluetoothctl?

[bezlitza]

logs.txt

[cagnulein]

logs.txt

finally something it comes:

2020-05-15 11:40:06 DEBUG (SyncWorker_3) [switchbot] Sending command to switchbot 570102
2020-05-15 11:40:06 DEBUG (SyncWorker_3) [switchbot] Connecting to Switchbot...
2020-05-15 11:40:08 DEBUG (SyncWorker_7) [switchbot] Sending command to switchbot 570100
2020-05-15 11:40:08 DEBUG (SyncWorker_7) [switchbot] Connecting to Switchbot...

These are command sends to switchbot plugin not switchbot_press plugin, infact these commands are for turn on and turn off, not pressing. I think you've misconfigured the switchbot entity.

Moreover, you have problems also with the switchbot standard plugin, infact:

2020-05-15 11:41:51 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Updating switchbot_press switch took longer than the scheduled update interval 0:00:30
2020-05-15 11:41:51 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Updating switchbot switch took longer than the scheduled update interval 0:00:30

Both plugins fail to load...

[bezlitza]

What should I do?

[cagnulein]

What should I do?

you have to delete the switchbot part, only the first 3 lines must remain!

[bezlitza]

logs.txt

[bezlitza]

not help. it still doesn't work