[solved] Elro AB440S and Pimatic

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So i have a few problems getting my Elro Switches running.

I was using pilight, but want to get rid of it, for now without the arduino, the sender & receiver are directly connected to my pi.

I activated the Homeduino Plugin:
{
“plugin”: “homeduino”,
“driver”: “gpio”,
“driverOptions”: {},
“receiverPin”: 1,
“transmitterPin”: 0
}

Under Pilight it worked with these settings:

            "Steckdose3": {
                    "name": "Steckdose3",
                    "protocol": [ "elro_hc" ],
                    "id": [{
                            "systemcode": 3,
                            "unitcode": 27
                    }],
                    "state": "off"
            }

When i try to use the Switch3 Protocol, with Housecode 3 and unitcode 27, nothing happens.
somehwere i read i could use just the dip settings in binary so i entered the following:
{
“id”: “rfswitch3”,
“name”: “RFSwitch2”,
“class”: “HomeduinoRFSwitch”,
“protocols”: [
{
“name”: “switch3”,
“options”: {
“houseCode”: “11100”,
“unitCode”: “00100”,
“state”: “off”
}
}
]
}

It switches, but in reverse order: when i set it to on in the webgui it goes off and vise versa.
I got the hint to use the switch2 protocol as ist should just be reversed but that didn’t help.

I get the feeling that the setting with housecode & unitcode is not right…does anybody have a hint?

Systemcode and Unitcode might vary from pilight - do you have a remote to test?

@theslashy

the order is reversed here, I had the same problems when switching from pilight to pimatic-homeduino.

house-code 11100 would be 28 instead of 7 and Unit 10000 would be 16 instead of 1

I’m also using Elro AB440 with 12345 ABCDE and here it works like this, in that case housecode is 10010 and Unit is 10000:

{
  "id": "corridor",
  "name": "Licht Flur",
  "class": "HomeduinoRFSwitch",
  "protocols": [
    {
      "name": "switch2",
      "options": {
        "houseCode": 18,
        "unitCode": 16
      }
    }
  ]
},

if all fails take your remote and press the button for on / off and have a look at the homeduino debug messages. there you can find the correct unit and id. then set up your device accordingly.

i remember that the ab440 series can also be switched via intertechno protocol.
maybe you can try it with switch4 protocol but without any warranty …

@Ralf H

That worked, thank you very much!!!

@theslashy said:

@Ralf H

That worked, thank you very much!!!

no problem

Hello. I have the same Problem here. I’m switching from Pilight to Pimatic. I’ve an Arduino Nano laying around and was trying to use it with Homeduino. Same setting as seen above, but no reaction. It was working with pilight. I’m using a FS1000A Transmitter. No Receiver attached though.
Is there any chance to see if the transmitter is sending anything? I also tried to attach only the transmitter to the pi without Arduino (Nano, Chinese not original, Problem? Tried also reversed code for Elro AB 440. No luck… Any ideas how I can debug?

@beniroquai
you should attach a receiver and check the debug messages of homeduino.
the unit/id/housecodes may differ from pilight to pimatic, therefore you mostly cannot takeover your config 1:1.
if you’re using intertechno devices with the turnwheels you can check this out (even without receiver) : pimatic/pimatic#380

Thank you for your reply and sorry that I forgot to mention, that I’m using the ELRO as well. So you can send and recieve at the same time with the arduino?
I’m sending a code and getting a debug message? I don’t have the remote control for the Elro at the moment

While sending is the receiver deactivated. Eventually we can create a debug entry to activate receiving while sending.

@Icesory said:

While sending is the receiver deactivated. Eventually we can create a debug entry to activate receiving while sending.

would be a nice feature!

@beniroquai the easiest way is to have a remote at hand, that’s what i forgot to say if you don’t have it, maybe you can try to switch on in pilight and receive in pimatic at the same time. just a suggestion. don’t know if that works.