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paulw11 / homebridge-wiser

Clipsal C-Bus Wiser plugin for home bridge
MIT License
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Use without homebridge #3

Closed NovaGL closed 7 years ago

NovaGL commented 7 years ago

Hi,

Just wondering if you would make something similar that would work without homebridge.

Say just a node.js project. I just want something I can use with Alexa.

Any help would be great.

paulw11 commented 7 years ago

wiser.js is independent of homebridge, so you should be able to work from that. You can create an instance of Wiser and then call start on that instance. It will emit a discovery complete event once the wiser project has been parsed. You can then access the wiserGroups property to get the C-Bus groups. You can set a group's level and a group will emit a level change event when it's level changes.

NovaGL commented 7 years ago

Thanks. What information do I need from the tech to access wiser project

paulw11 commented 7 years ago

You just need the same parameters that are in the homebridge config file; the wiser address, port, username and password.

Also, note that I have only tried this code on an original wiser. I don't know if it works on the new Wiser 2; if you have one I would be interested to see

NovaGL commented 7 years ago

Great. Will let you know how I go.

NovaGL commented 7 years ago

Got it working with homebridge. So that works fine.

How would I go about passing a command say turn off kitchen lights without homebridge.

paulw11 commented 7 years ago

The wiserGroups property of your Wiser object is a dictionary of WiserGroup objects. The key is the C-Bus group address. You need to find the group address of the kitchen light and then use that to get the appropriate WiserGroup object. You can then pass this group to the setGroupLevel function of Wiser to set the group level. You could also build some other dictionary of wiserGroup objects, say by name.

Are you using an original Wiser or a Wiser 2? It would be good to know if it works with the Wiser 2.

NovaGL commented 7 years ago

Thanks so much but this is a bit beyond me. If it is not too much trouble could you give me a full example without personal information.

I am using the Wiser 2. It seems to crash sometimes but might just be me overloading it. Thats why I wanted to try it with just one switch.

NovaGL commented 7 years ago

Going to use node-cbus instead thanks anyway