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maxwellhadley / node-red-contrib-rfxcom

node-RED nodes to access an RFXtrx433 transceiver
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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lighting2 not supported? #60

Closed 6wheels closed 5 years ago

6wheels commented 5 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to migrate from OpenHAB to Node-RED, or at least check if I can get everything to work with Node-RED. I have several Chacon On/Off switches to control both lights and heaters. In OpenHAB they are declared liked this: channel="rfxcom:lighting2:a5a65bd4:command" I thought that a simple topic like: /lighting2/a5a65b/d4 would work, but I actually get the following error: [warn] [rfx-lights-out:da70600b.8c6b5] rfx-lights-out : device type 'LIGHTING2' is not supported

Am I missing something? or Lighting2 is simply not supported?

Thanks in advance.

maxwellhadley commented 5 years ago

There are two different types of Chacon switches: the older type uses 'lighting1' protocol, and has thumbwheel switches to set the address, the newer type uses 'lighting2' protocol and sets the address by 'pairing' with a transmitter. The topic name for the old type is CHACON, while the topic name for the new type is AC. I think /ac/a5a65b/d4 is what you want. (Note that topic names are not case-sensitive)

6wheels commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your answer. I managed to make it work! I had already tried the /ac topic but I was using the wrong device address... I was using the OpenHAB's internal identifier instead of the one declared in the RFXCom.

It works like a charm now.

Thanks for your work, migration seems possible now ;)