EnOcean Support

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I would like to use EnOcean-Devices with pimatic without the need to cheat via MQTT and FHEM

Hardware is already ready for purchase (USB 300 from Dolphin or Enocean PI 868 - they’re both the same module but one is a raspberry hat which uses the raspberry’s serial interface. The other one has some FTDI-Chip to set up an usb-serial-interface).

Eltako hosts a nice variety of devices which are interfaced either directly via EnOcean or via FAM14 which “translates” to RS485-bus. A lot of these devices are able to be clipped in top-hat rails -> Thats why I chose them

@leopoldkoenig seems to be interested aswell. I hope there are some more people interested in pimatic-EnOcean

I do have a test setup consisting of a raspberry pi, USB 300, FAM14, FMS14 and PTM 215 DB (EnOcean Push Button Module).

It seems that @mwittig already has an idea about it (hopefully I do not spoil a secret here )
https://github.com/mwittig/pimatic-enocean

If any additional information is needed do not hesitate to contact me

Cheers,
Max

no you dont spoil any secrets
there are efforts taken on implementing enocean into pimatic as you already have seen. we have gotten our hands on some enocean hardware. now the codework has to be done. actually this is still in the beginnings @mwittig, marcus maybe you can tell a bit more about the enocean project and the neccessary steps and efforts.

No secrets. I am working on this and I have the hardware in place. I am using a FAM4PI adapter which was a bit tricky to setup due to outdated documentation. The plugin will also support the USB300 USB adapter at least. Generally, any adapter providing a serial-line interface should work.
I am experimenting with the learning mode, auto-learning and the differenz device types to better understand the protocol. Please do not expect much before Xmas as I have not much spare time to work on this.

Best news to start the day with
As soon as it comes to testing I will be happy to help.
There seems to be a bit of documentation for the USB300 - > https://www.enocean.com/en/enocean_modules/usb-300-oem/
Scroll down to the buttom of the site for Datasheet and User manual.
A bit further down is even more documentation for EnOcean in general (see links under “System Specification”.

Cheers,
Max

Good morning everybody!
Any news regarding the EnOcean development?

Cheers,
Max

Things are progressing slowly. I have made several experiments with node-enocean and have also been in contact with the author. The Enocean protocol is limiting in some aspects. Basically, you can only monitor the state of device or setup virtual devices to control other devices. This is different from the drivers we have for other home automation protocols. I want to give this some more thought. Nevertheless I’ll release something very basic soon.

Hi there,
has there been progress since your last post? I have stalked monitored your github-repo for the enocean stuff
If you need any assistance let me know. I’d be happy to help.

Cheers,
Max

@craptec

Hello everyone, I’m new here, and I have the following need: I’m trying to use the HOPPE SECUSIGNAL
which sends a signal of EnOcean 868mhz, I am trying to receive this signal on a RaspBerry PI 3 (Operating System RASPBIAN “LINUX”),
with a USB receiver 300, I made a program and C or Python to read the USB port, but the information comes all in hexadecimal,
already tried everything, if possible I would like an example to handle the information received.
If anyone knows anything about this, help people.
Thanks for listening

example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2azgyhxg86k

@kiko said in EnOcean Support:

I made a program and C or Python to read the USB port, but the information comes all in hexadecimal,
already tried everything, if possible I would like an example to handle the information received.

Have a look at https://github.com/node-enocean/node-enocean which provides basic EnOcean support for node.js applications. It is straightforward to use and the code should be fairly easy to comprehend for a developer.

Unfortunately, there are not that many OSS libraries for EnOcean, probably, because it is a fairly expensive niche product in a highly fragmented smart home market.

EDIT: Please note you’ll node.js version 7.x or higher for node-enocean! For this reason there is currently node plugin for pimatic as the pimatic framework is still tied to version 4.x