[Solved] HouseCode and Protocol for Brennenstuhl

lukx

Hey folks,

I am looking to switch from my working pilight setup to pimatic with pimatic-homeduino. I am running the cheap Mumbi-m-fs300 switches (the old edition with dip-switches) and the technically equal Brennenstuhl RCS-N1000 Comfort. The 433 MHZ Sender is directly on the GPIO Ports, as I don’t want to add an arduino to the setup just yet.

On pilight, I am running them, e.g., like this:

pilight-send -p brennenstuhl -s 22 -u 2 -t

The house code is 22, or 10110 (right to left on the dip switches).

However, on pimatic, I tried both the switch2 or switch3 protocol, with the same house and unit code, and nothing happens.

I am not able to read the real remote’s input, as I don’t have a receiver at my disposal

My Questions

Can anyone confirm that the GPIO pin numbering is the same between pilight and pimatic? I am using wiringX pin numbering, 0 for transmitting (“sender” in pilight)
Can anyone confirm which protocol is supposed to be used with Brennenstuhl RCS-N1000 Comfort?
Can anyone confirm that the house code and unit code is calculated the same way, reading the dip-switches from right to left?

Thanks a lot for sharing any insight you may have on the topic!

mwittig

@Lukas-Domnick said:

Hi, I only can help you to some extent as I am using a different setup. Maybe @sweebe can help you further.

Can anyone confirm that the GPIO pin numbering is the same between pilight and pimatic? I am using wiringX pin numbering, 0 for transmitting (“sender” in pilight)

According to the docs the pin numbers used by pimatic-homeduino are wiringPi pin numbers. See http://wiringpi.com/pins/

EDIT: See also http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/202/4-homeduino-433-mhz-sending-receiving-and-even-more/2 for an excellent how-to. Following this it suggested to use pin1 for transmission.

Can anyone confirm which protocol is supposed to be used with Brennenstuhl RCS-N1000 Comfort?

It should work, however, the following thread indicates it doesn’t. Maybe @temp can help you further. See http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/578/brennenstuhl-rcs1000-n-comfort

Can anyone confirm that the house code and unit code is calculated the same way, reading the dip-switches from right to left?

I think this depends on the protocol implementation. Generally, unit/id/housecodes may differ from pilight to pimatic, therefore you cannot takeover your config 1:1. See also the following posts:

Overflow

@Lukas-Domnick Hi Lukas, I am using these switches too (bought them on Amazon really cheap) and I have to say I am using the Switch2 protocol and they work fine. Find my config below to give you a lead

It is set to be triggered by the A key on the remote. However, I never used Pilight so I can’t tell.

{
  "id": "rfswitchBrennA",
  "name": "Printer",
  "class": "HomeduinoRFSwitch",
  "protocols": [
      {
      "name": "switch2",
      "options": {
        "houseCode": 12,
        "unitCode": 16
      }
    }
  ]
}

Greets!

lukx

Hey overflow, Thanks a lot for your insights! Just in case it doesn’t bother you too much, would you mind sharing the exact dip switch Status with me? Thanks a bunch!
By the way, I will try to read the dip switches from left to right tomorrow, making the house code 13 instead of 22. I’ll keep the board updated of course.

SLiX

had the same problem, while coming from pilight. Thought i can keep unit-/house code, but it differs (can’t tell exactly anymore)

Here is my example: housecode: 10; unitcode: 16
Systemcode: from left to right (1 to 5) 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 (down - up - down - up - down)
Unitcode: from left to right 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 ( up - down - down - down - down)

lukx

Thanks a lot!

I can now confirm that Brennenstuhl RCS 1000 N Comfort and my old Dip-Switch-Operated Mumbi M FS300 work with the switch2 protocol

For further reference:

The House Code is read from left to right, unlike in pilight (right to left).

Pilight’s House Code 22 becomes 13 in pimatic. This reads as 01101 on the remote.
As described by @SLiX, 01010 on the remote becomes 10 in pimatic.
If unsure how to shift between the number systems, you can use any Binary-To-Decimal-Converter.

Unit Codes are mixed up as well, as @Overflow mentioned.

Pilight’s Unit Code 1, which triggers as A on the remote, becomes 16 in pimatic.
To my brief experiments, I could confirm that B => 8, C => 4, and thus presumably D => 2 (untested, though.)

Thanks a lot for all of your efforts. I hope we will have made it easier for everyone.