Problems with smoke alarm FA20RF

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HI all,

Now that the summer seems to be over time to continue with pimatic.
I have a strange issue: I have two FA20RF smoke detectors which are linked to eachother. When I press the test button of one, the other also sounds so there is communication between the two devices. Somehow, although it should be supported, I see absolutely nothing happening in my logs. So the homeduino is not reporting any signal. What I have tried to resolve this:

• New batteries in smoke alarm
• have smoke alarm next to antenna
• update arduino nano sketch

Pimatic reports being completely up to date, and I have also looked in the pimatic-homeduino files which seem to include the alarm1 protocol. I have also tried with an old version of pilight, and this definately reports a signal (pilight-debug).

I am completely clueless, any ideas?

Gijs

@stat Hi. Did you enable the debug logging in the pimatic frontend? See also http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/210/5-homeduino-and-rf-devices-433-mhz-transmitting-receiving

Do you also have other RF devices with your homeduino setup?

Yes, I have, and I do not see anything when I press the test button.
I do have many other devices, including KAKU devices and self-made devices. They all work fine.

It should not be a problem that I first paired the devices right?

I do notice that the code received in pilight-debug is very variable:

time: Wed Sep 16 15:30:18 2015
hardware: 433gpio
pulse: 2
rawlen: 50
binlen: 12
pulselen: 308

Raw code:
924 924 2772 616 2772 616 2772 616 1540 924 2772 616 2772 616 2772 616 2772 616 2772 616 1540 616 1540 616 2772 616 1540 616 3388 2772 616 1540 616 1540 616 2772 616 1540 616 2772 616 1540 616 2772 616 2772 616 2772 616 10472
Binary code:
111111111111
–[RESULTS]–

time: Wed Sep 16 15:30:19 2015
hardware: 433gpio
pulse: 45
rawlen: 52
binlen: 13
pulselen: 237

Raw code:
948 711 2844 711 2844 711 2844 711 1422 711 2844 711 2844 711 2844 711 2844 711 2844 711 1422 711 1422 711 2844 711 1422 711 2844 711 2844 711 1422 711 1422 711 2844 711 1422 711 2844 711 1422 711 2844 711 2844 711 2607 711 10665 8058
Binary code:
0000000000000
–[RESULTS]–

time: Wed Sep 16 15:30:19 2015
hardware: 433gpio
pulse: 2
rawlen: 51
binlen: 13
pulselen: 312

Raw code:
936 624 2808 624 2808 624 2808 624 1560 624 2808 624 2808 624 2808 624 2808 624 2808 624 1560 624 1560 624 2808 624 1560 936 2808 624 2808 624 1560 624 1560 936 2808 624 1560 624 2808 624 1560 624 2808 936 2808 936 2808 624 10608
Binary code:
1111111111110
–[RESULTS]–

time: Wed Sep 16 15:30:20 2015
hardware: 433gpio
pulse: 833
rawlen: 52
binlen: 13
pulselen: 240

Raw code:
960 720 2880 720 2640 720 2880 720 1440 720 2880 720 2880 720 2880 720 2880 720 2880 720 1440 720 1440 720 2880 720 1440 720 2880 720 2640 720 1440 720 1440 720 2880 720 1440 720 2880 720 1440 720 2640 720 2880 720 2640 720 199920 8160
Binary code:
0000000000000
–[RESULTS]–

time: Wed Sep 16 15:30:20 2015
hardware: 433gpio
pulse: 3
rawlen: 51
binlen: 13
pulselen: 311

Raw code:
933 622 2799 933 2799 622 2799 622 1555 933 2799 933 2799 933 2799 933 2799 622 2799 622 1555 933 1555 933 2799 622 1555 933 2799 933 2799 933 1244 933 1555 622 2799 622 1555 933 2799 622 1555 622 2799 622 2799 622 2799 933 10574
Binary code:
1111111111110
–[RESULTS]–

time: Wed Sep 16 15:30:20 2015
hardware: 433gpio
pulse: 44
rawlen: 52
binlen: 13
pulselen: 238

Raw code:
952 714 2856 714 2856 714 2856 714 1428 714 2856 714 2856 714 2856 714 2856 714 2856 714 1428 714 1428 714 2856 714 1428 714 2856 714 2856 714 1428 714 1428 714 2856 714 1428 714 2856 714 1428 714 2856 714 2856 714 2618 714 10472 8092
Binary code:
0000000000000