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mlfunston / node-red-contrib-broadlink-control

Set of node-red nodes to manage the Broadlink home automation device suite
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node-red-contrib-broadlink-control with HASSIO #40

Closed BSD31 closed 4 years ago

BSD31 commented 4 years ago

Hello. I am very interested in your work 'node-red-contrib-broadlink-control' but I can't get them to work properly. My Node-Red is in a Docker container with Home Assistant. I use the 'RM' node for my RM3-Mini type 272a but I cannot fill in the 'Catalog' field of 'Edit rmdevice node'. So the learned codes do not register ... My problem comes from the connection between Home assistant and Node-Red. With other nodes, I use 'node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket' to communicate with Home Assistant. Can I imagine that this is possible in this case? Thank you

mlfunston commented 4 years ago

If you are mapping a data volume in Docker, then you could store the catalog files in that volume or folder location, eg map the config folder in your container to an external location, dump the SharedData folder in that location and then point to it as /config/SharedData

What data are you trying to send between the Broadlink nodes and Home Assistant?

Thanks.

BSD31 commented 4 years ago

I would like my Samsung air conditioning to communicate with Home Assistant via Node-Red. I created a folder '/ SharedData /' in the '/ config /' directory of Home Assistant and I indicated '/ config / SharedData' in the 'catalog' field of the node. The white LED lights up well to learn a new code. When the code is received, the white LED light is down but no file is saved in the indicated directory. I can see the directory when I am in Windows via the address \192.168.0.12\config\ShareData\ but it remains permanently empty ... Thank you for your help. Bruno from France

BSD31 commented 4 years ago

Perhaps important information: My Hassio is installed in a Virtual Machine Manager on Synology.

mlfunston commented 4 years ago

@BSD31 - Did you use the example code to "add code to db"?

Also, can you read the data from the catalog file in the RM node - IE do the remote and button show up when selecting the send function in the action drop down?

BSD31 commented 4 years ago

Hi Here is my configuration :

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Regards

BSD31 commented 4 years ago

The Broadlink RM3

mlfunston commented 4 years ago

Have you followed the instructions in the readme to extract your econtrol app SharedData folder and put that in the \config\broadlink_data folder or copied in the example db from the node?

BSD31 commented 4 years ago

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for the sending part, the drop-down lists 'Remote' and 'Button' are empty

BSD31 commented 4 years ago

I do not want to use the e-control application and indicate my wifi passwords on the Chinese site! Can you use your node without registering on e-control? I'm sorry but my English is very light and I use Google translation to write here ... Maybe that's why I don't understand everything ...

mlfunston commented 4 years ago

If you don't want to extract the econtrol files, you at least need to have the JSON data files from the BroadlinkDB folder from this repository. Otherwise, where will it try to put the data in your folder when it's empty? No files in the folder = Not working.

This is clearly mentioned here: https://github.com/mlfunston/node-red-contrib-broadlink-control#installing-and-setting-up

mlfunston commented 4 years ago

@BSD31 - Did you try with the sample broadlinkDB files and did that improve things?