markvader / ha-rpi_rf

Home Assistant Raspberry Pi GPIO RF Integration

Hi there 👋

I'm Mark B, I now work in Data Engineering & SysOps having worked previously in non-IT related fields for 15 years. I really like to dabble in many areas with software and contribute to a variety of projects in hardware (C++), Home Automation (mainly Python) & Medical Software (Java & User Documentation).

I have a strong interest in diabetes technology (having had type 1 Diabetes for over 22 years) and try to contribute to various opensource projects in the DIY Artifical Pancreas world and support the users of these systems. Commercial closed loop systems are the (near) future for Diabetes and DIY systems are here for the bold and the brave now. I use AndroidAPS, xDrip+ & Nightscout

Being a big fan of Home Assistant Website/Github, the open source home automation project (that puts local control and privacy first), I've taken on maintaining and developing some integrations. I maintain and develop the ha-rpi_rf custom component, I've written a python library for the Sonic water smart shutoff valve by Hero Labs and a Home Assistant integration for this device. I've now turned my attention to the local api, to really gave users local control and not have to be dependent on a webservice.

Want to collobrate, let me know

Much more to come.

Mark

ha-rpi_rf's Issues

whether it can use for receiver?

is this support receive 433M module for home assistant? Thanks.

Error in configuration.yaml after hacs and rpi_rf Update

hi,

i have an issue with the configuration.yaml since i have updated homeassistant.
i also updatred hacs, rpi_gpio and rpi_rf.

ERROR-Message:
bad indentation of a mapping entry at line 58, column 9:
gpio: 17

Has somebody any clue about a solution?

 - platform: rpi_rf
    gpio: 17
    switches:
      Stern:
    pulselength: 300
        protocol: 1
        code_on: 1394001
        code_off: 1394004
        signal_repetitions: 10
      Druckerbeleuchtung:
        protocol: 1
        pulselength: 300
        code_on: 1397073
        code_off: 1397076
        signal_repetitions: 10
      Nachtischlampe Freddy:
        protocol: 1
        pulselength: 300
        code_on: 1397841
        code_off: 1397844
        signal_repetitions: 10
      Lichterkette:
        protocol: 1
        pulselength: 300
        code_on: 4195665
        code_off: 4195668
        signal_repetitions: 10
      Nachttischlampe Jill:
        protocol: 1
        pulselength: 300
        code_on: 4198737
        code_off: 4198740
        signal_repetitions: 10
      Standlampe:
        protocol: 1
        pulselength: 300
        code_on: 4199505
        code_off: 4199508
        signal_repetitions: 10

Having trouble to read results

Excuse me for not understand, but i have the rpi_rf installed on my HA, but i dont know how to use it.
What do i have to do to read what RF devices the integration has found on my system ??
I have a lot of RF devices in my home that i want to control from HA and i also have a Telldus Hygrometer that i want to use in my bathroom to control the fan.
Is there any easy way to read the remoter values from a Nexa remote or any other brand in HA ?
Does it exists a Card thats easy to download to HA that also can control the rpi_rf and making it easy to integrate products in to automations ?
In my rpi_rf folder it did come up a new folder named "pycache" with 2 files, "init.cpython-310.pyc" and "switch.cpython-310.pyc" but i dont know how to use them or read them.
I think that the solution with adding a RF transmitter and reciver to the GPIO pins on RPI is a great idea because i dont want to buy different hubs and having dozens of hubs thats just doing 1 thing.
I did buy earlyer a Sonoff RFBridgeR2 but havent got anything working on that and when i find rpi_rf i instantly wanted to try that instead.
Great job on this integration, and if this work with Telldus/Tellstick products you deserves the Nobel price because the shops sell Telldus products that needs to be connected to a hub thats not anywhere to find or buy!

Switch service call order not guaranteed?

While we don't know real status of RF devices in some automations I call "switch off" first and then "switch on" (because actually my RF lights controller works in "toggle" mode. But I found that light can be turned on and then turned off. It looks like RF call order is random.

Maybe it is an issue. Or maybe it is something specific, I don't know.

Add length option to transmission

The code_on/code_off, protocol, and pulselength options are currently supported.

So, add length option too.

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The rpi_rf 0.9.7 already supports the tx_length parameter in transmission, the method signature:

def tx_code(self, code, tx_proto=None, tx_pulselength=None, tx_length=None):

https://github.com/milaq/rpi-rf/blob/0.9.7/rpi_rf/rpi_rf.py#L91

running rpi_rf from a remote raspberry pi

Hello,
Just wanted to find out if this is a possibility :

Home Assistant running on a PC or as a VM with HACS installed + the RPI_RF integration as per your instructions via HACS.

Raspberry PI running Raspberry Pi OS Lite with GPIO RF Modules & also the RPI_RF ( basically with the ability to sniff / send commands to 433mhz devices via command line ).

Is there any way to direct the rpi_rf setup in the configuration.yaml to send commands to the remote raspberry pi ?

Example idea :
#############################################

Example configuration.yaml entry

switch:

• platform: rpi_rf
  gpio: 17
  switches:
  bedroom_light:
  code_on: 1234567
  code_off: 1234568
  binary_sensor:
• platform: remote_rpi_gpio
  host: IP_ADDRESS_OF_REMOTE_PI
  ports:
  17: RF Tranmitter
  27: RF Receiver
  #############################################

Hope all this is making sense ?

The crux of the idea is to use Home Assistant either physical or virtualised and then be able to utilise a remote raspberry pi with GPIO RF modules to send commands to the RF devices / sockets etc thus making it a in-house solution instead of any third party RF Gateway / Vendors.

Many thanks.

'rpi_rf' has no attribute 'RFDevice'

I've just upgraded ha to the latest version and needed to use your integration but upon adding via hacs I get the following error.

I've tried all sorts to fix it. Any idea?

Logger: homeassistant.components.switch
Source: custom_components/rpi_rf/switch.py:69
Integration: Switch (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 13:56:13 (3 occurrences)
Last logged: 13:56:13

Error while setting up rpi_rf platform for switch
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 281, in _async_setup_platform
await asyncio.shield(task)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/config/custom_components/rpi_rf/switch.py", line 69, in setup_platform
rfdevice = rpi_rf.RFDevice(gpio)
AttributeError: module 'rpi_rf' has no attribute 'RFDevice'

No issue, question: Support of Klik aan Klik uit.

Hi,

What a wonderful integration for HA!!! Im using a RFlink to control 2 old klik aan klik uit modules. (Dim)
When I install this integration will it support KaKu also? Because then I only need to add the receive/transmitter module on the right gpis pins and I can remove the old RFlink board.

Cheers,
Peter

Error after HACS install ha-rpi_rf

I have core-2022.3.8 installed with supervisor-2022.03.5 and Home Assistant OS 7.6.
I installed via HACS, rebooted. I am getting the following errors:
Any ideas what might be causing this failure?
Thank you!

ERROR (SyncWorker_1) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package RPi.GPIO==0.7.1: error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      running build_ext
      building 'RPi._GPIO' extension
      error: command 'gcc' failed: No such file or directory
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for RPi.GPIO
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Running setup.py install for RPi.GPIO did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [8 lines of output]
      running install
      /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py:34: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
        warnings.warn(
      running build
      running build_py
      running build_ext
      building 'RPi._GPIO' extension
      error: command 'gcc' failed: No such file or directory
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  WARNING: No metadata found in /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages
error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> RPi.GPIO

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.
WARNING: You are using pip version 22.0.3; however, version 22.0.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

The integration doesn't seem to work

HW: Rpi3

Home Assistant 2023.10.5
Supervisor 2023.10.1
Operating System 11.1
Frontend 20231005.0 - latest

my configuration

switch:
  - platform: rpi_rf
    gpio: 17
    switches:
      bell:
        signal_repetitions: 1
        pulselength: 388
        code_on: 3010305
        code_off: 3010305
        unique_id: "custom_unique_id"

RuntimeError: Cannot determine SOC peripheral base address

Hello,

tried to use this HACS integration and failed to make it works because of this error :
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=361218

I think it could be interesting to create a version using "rpi-rf-gpiod" instead of "rpi-rf"

thanks