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Free@Home component for Home Assistant
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6221-Sensor is not detected correctley #183

Open Spartacus68 opened 2 months ago

Spartacus68 commented 2 months ago

Hi all, I have installed a free@Home SYSAP with a Sensor 6221/2.0-WL. The integration is setup and the Sensor is online in SYSAP.

Homeassistant detetcs the sensor only with the left Channel and on/off events are generated. Nothing happens if I click on the right channel.

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Also long-press will not be sent out. Is this technically not possible? I only use free@home with sensor. No actuators

jheling commented 2 months ago

Hello, the integration works by intercepting the messages of a sensor when a sensor is paired with an acuator. You can test this under home assistant as described as point 2 of the debugging section of the homepage of this integration. Then you should see the messages of the left button and maybe the right button

Spartacus68 commented 2 months ago

Hi,

does this mean, that a sensor only works, if an actuator is paired with the sensor in free@home directley? And does this also mean, that a setup with only sensor in free@home and actuators in HA does not work?

Sorry for my stupid questions but I am totally new in freee@home and in close contact with Busch-Jäger in order to test the szenarios with HA. BJ provided me only sensors for testing the connection to HA. Only to understand the situation: Is it a technical limitation of freeqhome that the communication only works if sensor and actuator are paired in the SysAP or is this the current functionallity within your integration?

jheling commented 2 months ago

Hello, When I started with this integration there had to be a link from the sensor to the actuator if you wanted to see a button press of the sensor in home assistant. The integration intercepts the messages that are on the free@home bus wire. This bus wire also makes it possible to use the sensors and actuators without a sysap.

If you want to use a free@home sensor in combination with a home assistant actuator you can use the Emulated Hue integration. This will make a home assistant actuator look like a philips hue bulb. The free@home will see the emulated hue and you can connect a sensor to this bulb.

Using the free@home only for the switches/sensors looks a bit expensive as there are also zigbee of wifi switches that are a bit cheaper.

Spartacus68 commented 2 months ago

Hello

I'll explain the background:

I hve bought BJ Zigbee switches 2 years ago. As it turned out, they just don't work in big Zigbee networks and are no longer usable for me. Since I spent a lot of money on the BJ wall switch program and use the design throughout the house, I didn't want to accept this circumstance and complained to BJ. On a Zigbee basis, BJ can't offer anything because they will no longer support Zigbee products in future. Instead, the company will focus on Matter and free@home in the future. I would like to continue using BJ in future and BJ promised to replace the Zigbee sensors. But this only makes sense if I can connect them to HA. I now understand that your free@home integration currently only works if actuators are installed on the bus or in the SysAP. For me, this means that a pure solution with sensors will not work. BJ also has a keen interest in connecting the free@home with HA. I'm not a programmer and don't trust myself to develop it further, but I could make contacts to make the sensors and actuators transparent. It would be great if they could help!Just let me know!