timleland / rfoutlet

Control 433Mhz Rf power outlets from a Raspberry Pi

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rfoutlet's Issues

iOS and watchOS app for RFOutlet

I have published an iOS and watchOS app that integrates with toggle.php here: https://github.com/marcetcheverry/Outlets

A free Apple developer account is required to deploy it on your devices.

– Marc

Piscope shows pin activity but RFSniffer does not report it

Hi - I'm not able to get RFSniffer to report any signal on my RPi 3 and wondering if I have a software issue (running RaspiOS bullseye). I ran Piscope to check GPIO27 and there certainly seems to be signal on that pin.

In this screenshot, I pressed a button on my 433mhz BN-LNK remote and could certainly see some signal coming over it (in red box). The signal would repeat with each button press.

Does anything look amiss or is the pin just too noisy for RFSniffer to pick up the signal from the remote? My Pi is wired like this. I'm using WiringPi from here

HomeKit Support Using HomeBridge

I have managed to enable HomeKit support using:

• HomeBridge
• HomeBridge-HTTP

There is also the alternative of calling the codesend command directly with the cmdswitch2 plugin

Here is the sample config file that works with my branch of RFOutlet that supports GET requests.

{
    "bridge": {
    	"name": "HomeBridge",
    	    "username": "CC:22:3D:E3:CE:30",
    	    "port": 51826,
    	    "pin": "031-45-154"
    },

    "description": "HomeBridge HTTP Status Control",

    "accessories": [
    {
   	"accessory": "Http",
   	    "name": "1",
   	    "switchHandling": "realtime",
   	    "http_method": "GET",
   	    "on_url":      "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=1&outletStatus=on",
   	    "off_url":     "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=1&outletStatus=off",
   	    "service": "Light",
   	    "brightnessHandling": "no",
   	    "sendimmediately": ""
    },
    {
   	"accessory": "Http",
   	    "name": "2",
   	    "switchHandling": "realtime",
   	    "http_method": "GET",
   	    "on_url":      "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=2&outletStatus=on",
   	    "off_url":     "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=2&outletStatus=off",
   	    "service": "Light",
   	    "brightnessHandling": "no",
   	    "sendimmediately": ""
    },
    {
   	"accessory": "Http",
   	    "name": "3",
   	    "switchHandling": "realtime",
   	    "http_method": "GET",
   	    "on_url":      "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=3&outletStatus=on",
   	    "off_url":     "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=3&outletStatus=off",
   	    "service": "Light",
   	    "brightnessHandling": "no",
   	    "sendimmediately": ""
    },
    {
   	"accessory": "Http",
   	    "name": "4",
   	    "switchHandling": "realtime",
   	    "http_method": "GET",
   	    "on_url":      "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=4&outletStatus=on",
   	    "off_url":     "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=4&outletStatus=off",
   	    "service": "Light",
   	    "brightnessHandling": "no",
   	    "sendimmediately": ""
    },
    {
   	"accessory": "Http",
   	    "name": "5",
   	    "switchHandling": "realtime",
   	    "http_method": "GET",
   	    "on_url":      "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=5&outletStatus=on",
   	    "off_url":     "http://localhost/rfoutlet/toggle.php?outletId=5&outletStatus=off",
   	    "service": "Light",
   	    "brightnessHandling": "no",
   	    "sendimmediately": ""
    }
    ]
}

Alexa Support

Hi there, I love the project so far but it seems to be missing something. I've read in your blog that you got rfoutlet to work with both siri and google home however, I don't have an iPhone or a google home 😢 .

Long story short, I've gone down the rabbit hole of rewriting rfoutlet with alexa support. It involves:

• creating a web service on the raspberry pi and
• exposing all of its endpoints globally for alexa skills kit to call it then finally
• securing the endpoints so anyone can't turn on your lights

It's quite a rabbit hole, but I'd be willing to help get alexa support in this project.

I regret not starting my project out as a fork but here it is.