For more than 10 years, I had been using Oregon Scientific thermometers, equipment of remarkable reliability: no failure, batteries that last for years, and a 433 MHz transmission via an RFXCom. However, I decided to gradually migrate my entire system to Zigbee to simplify and modernise my home automation installation. Read More
Zigbee 4-channel dry contacts are an advantageous replacement for Sonoff modules. This ZG-005-RF case offers 4 NO/NC outputs that can be controlled via Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant. Discover my complete test to order lights, valves or gates in home automation.
The dry contacts (potential free) are essential in home automation. They make it possible to control any electrical appliance without supplying any voltage themselves. The current only passes when the contact closes, making this type of module universal and secure.
I tested this Zigbee module purchased with my own funds. No sponsorship, just realistic tests.
This housing supports a voltage of up to 240V maximum. Maximum load: 10A per channel (2200W to 220V resistive), limited to 220W with LED. Total 16A for all 4 channels combined.
Here is a small recap of the data that will allow me to save the data from the last charging session in sensor.wallbox _charges.
I have already described all the Wallbox integration entities on this Retex:
I warn immediately, this Retex is only for pedagogical purposes, I write it to share a methodology, namely that I have realized this feature differently since then, so I do not have this process in prod. Read More
For now in disorganised form, this RetEx allows me to take notes for the understanding of the data coming back from the Wallbox integration Read More
My goal is to make an animation via an animated gif.
I can change gif depending on the state of an entity.
Note that the integration described below can only work if the USB/RS485 stick is the only equipment on the RS485 bus connected to the EM112. Indeed (and with the help of Eric G.) I understood that there could only bea single master equipment on the bus. The master is the one who questions and the slave the one who answers. EM112 is therefore a slave.
My first idea was to sniff out the lines of dialogue between EM112 and my Wallbox, the Wallbox being the master, I cannot do that. For the beauty of the exercise, I tested with two masters, it works we find values but from time to time, when the two masters ask a question together, we find ourselves with an error.
If someone can point me towards a way of ‘snipping’ bus 485 to intercept the information that the EM112 sends to a Wallbox, for example, I am a taker because at this stage I cannot have a Wallbox and a RS485/USB Key in parallel (two masters).
Until now, I had not been able to retrieve my information in Home Assistant. Smart Air Quality Monitor.
In order to be able to tell my automations or scripts whether or not I allowed automatic watering, I wanted to create a ‘virtual’ switch, which has no link with any entity (i.e. not a template) and which keeps its state when the (persistent) Home Assistant is relaunched.
Here is the beast:
It takes a little fear with its 10 screw connectors and its large screen full of numbers.
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