New plugin pimatic-orvibo

thex

Just published a new plugin for controlling orvibo s20 sockets.

For example:
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I suggest blocking the outlet on your firewall as the normal app for these outlets is communicating via servers in china ^^

Nevertheless this plugin uses UDP to directly switch the outlet.

If there are more users of this plugin I might implement auto discovery but for now I will not develop this further as it is working fine for the outlet I have and it looks like Amazon is not selling them anymore. ( I guess because it is lacking protective ground which I guess is required in europe)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/pimatic-orvibo

thex

Fixed a bug which would crash pimatic if the network connection drops out. New version is published.

mwittig

Implemented automatic device discovery which should simplify the setup of s20 sockets with pimatic. It is a pending PR, to date https://github.com/thexperiments/pimatic-orvibo/pull/6

hongkongkiwi

Awesome! Thanks so much for this.

thex

Just merged it into the repository. Code looks good, thanks for the implementation!
However I will not find time for testing it so feel free to install it from github and test it.
If it is working I’m happy to publish it on npm “blindfolded”.

mwittig

@thex That’s great. Thanks!

The master can be installed as follows …

cd /home/pi/pimatic-app
sudo npm install thexperiments/pimatic-orvibo --unsafe-perm

Felix Haverkamp

anyone can implement this to pimatic-orvibo?

it basicly implement the ORVIBO ALLONE infrared bridge and s20 sockets

https://github.com/Grayda/node-orvibo/blob/master/index.js

mwittig

Note, the Orvibo S20 shall no longer be used due to a RAPEX warning.

thex

Thanks for the Info, was already clear to me when I ordered it.
I only use it with a lamp which has no protective ground anyway.

I hope the release an updated version with protective ground so that we can still have a cheap outlet which is supported by this plugin.

thex

@Felix-Haverkamp said in New plugin pimatic-orvibo:

anyone can implement this to pimatic-orvibo?

it basicly implement the ORVIBO ALLONE infrared bridge and s20 sockets

https://github.com/Grayda/node-orvibo/blob/master/index.js

I think I looked at this but decided to write my own code because it did not have any proper feedback mechanism. My implementation is waiting for the socket feedback via UDP to make sure switching worked which was very important to me as UDP has no guarantees.