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  Home assistant integration
  • marko2276  

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  @Peli Hi Martin Due to relatively large number of inputs (All my switches are hooked to a DI on a Neuron device, the same goes for motion sensor. Then I have each light connected over a relay output or digital output for PWM control. Then there are blinds, each requiring two relay outputs. ...) I have three Neuron devices installed. 2 x L203 and 1 x M203. I am running Neuron OpenSource OS image from May last year I think. In the beginning I did intend to run my HA server on one of the Unipi devices, but have ultimately decided to rather use a separate NUC server that I had laying around. But I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work on the integrated RPi (especially if you plan to use only one device). I also did start with some of the links that you are mentioning. But all of them eventually came to the questions how to lower the latency of getting a signal change state from Unipi device to HA. All solution are designed around polling (MODBUS registers) - and this is already being done by EVOK SW layer running on unipi device, so why introduce another layer on top of that that would do the same. So then it is just a question how to hook to EVOK. With number of standard interfaces EVOK luckily also exposes asynchronous one (websockets) and this is where the performance increase (compared other polling mechanisms) comes handy. I am running HA with Neuron device for a while now and I haven't had any stability issues so far. So yes, I would definitely recommend trying it out. I don't have any Zigbee devices installed but there are standard integrations available in HA so this should work out of the box, if you ask me. Regards Marko
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  Patron a mervis/evok vs home assistant
  • kratas  

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  @kratas Mervis a Evok je SW, který můžete nainstalovat na jednotku zároveň, stejně jako Home Assistant, openHAB apod. Problém nastává v logice ovládání vstupů a výstupů, pokud s nimi pracuje více SW souběžně. Mervis, jelikož je spíše pro průmyslové nasazení, tak zapisuje neustále do IO jeho aktuální stav. Tedy pokud program v Mervisu má nastavovat relé, tak jej nastavuje na tu stejnou hodnotu několikrát za sekundu. Je to z důvodu bezpečnosti, kdy jedno nastavení by nemuselo "dotéct" až do IO a tím pádem by byla technologie v mezistavu. SW typu Node-RED, openHAB apod. fungují událostně - tedy zapíší hodnotu do IO pouze při její změně. Míchání těchto dvou postupů vede k problémům, tedy tento postup silně nedoporučujeme. Pokud hodláte používat naše rozšiřující moduly, doporučím použít Evok, protože přes něj budete moci z HA ovládat jak lokální IO Patrona, tak IO na rozšiřujících modulech. DirectSwitch je funkcionalita, která celé řízení velmi komplikuje. Současné ovládání relé autonomním DirectSwitchem a externě ze SW je velmi složitá a osobně ji nedoporučuji. S pozdravem, Martin Kudláček
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  A first post about my home
  • rferrazz  

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  Here is a brief video about the system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mjHFFgHrBA It is controlling heating actuators, lights, it is reading rooms tempertaure via 1w sensors and it operates an anti-theft system (sensors on windows and doors). I also have multiroom audio (with snapcast) but that is not fully integrated yet.
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  Otazky k Patron v domacej elektroinstalacii
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  Ďakujem za odpoveď! áno, relé výstupy som myslel a tiež som zvažoval použiť samostatný zdroj pre relé.
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  Neuron L203 - nefungující wifi
  • Whitegg  

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  Zdravím @Whitegg, píšete, že se PLC nepřipojí. Znamená to, že jej nevidíte na routeru, nebo že jej IDE nenadetekuje S pozdravem, Martin Kudláček
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  Neuron SPI overlay and TCP modbus with docker
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  Unipi 1.1 - physical press button - Philips Hue
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  Hello Martin, Perfect, many thanks for your answer! Best regards,
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  Domoticz home control and unipi
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  I don't visit forum frequently so, sorry for my late responce.......... Get rid of this LUA script. I have really good news for you. Check here : https://github.com/mccwdev/domoticz-unipi Go at domoticz/plugins and make a new directory named UniPi. Download the plugin.py file from the link above and copy it into the domoticz/plugins/UniPi directory. Go to you domoticz and from hardware choose unipi evok plugin and fill your evok info. Enjoy !!!
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  New Build Home
  • lessmann  

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  Hello @lessmann, the limit of how many devices can be connected to one RS485 line comes from the RS485 transceiver (the chip on the RS485 output) and on our PLCs it is 32. But be aware, that this is just a theoretical limit and the real limit depends on the current situation. Second limit of the RS485 is the speed of the communication. Since RS485 is a half-duplex type of communication (master can speak only to one slave at a time), the more devices you have the lower speed of updates you will have. If you have PLC with more RS485 ports, you can split the extensions into groups. Best regards, Martin
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  Axon S605 driver now part of upstream python-dali
  • Martijn Hemeryck  

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  Waste water and irrigation automation
  • Mike  

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  Hello @mike, I am currently working on a very similar project - monitoring of a groundwater level and a independently controlled water pumps. There will be a web interface with information about exact water level in cm (up to 5m) with charted historical values and when the set threshold level will be exceeded an email and SMS will be sent to a set of addresses. All of that accesible via web interface. If you are interested, please contact me on martin@modori.cz. We can continue in Czech language there. Have a nice day, Martin
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  basic connection to neuron
  • foulques NERA  

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  Hello, I expect that by console, you mean SSH. You need to enable the SSH in order to use putty (via SSH) the raspbian way: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/ check option 3
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  Unipi neuron home assistant setup
  • Martijn Hemeryck  

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  @sennevds My notes: reading of inputs: works reasonably well right now. I did create my own implementation (based on golang) that basically just polls the states of the switches continuously and pushes out any change as an MQTT event -- processed directly by home assistant. The polling implementation works on the background and eats about 5-10% CPU (still tolerable, might still be improved), switch behavior feels instantaneous for me. writing outputs: my implementation is also able to again translate incoming MQTT events into toggle outputs. Here, you don't need to poll directly (the MQTT handler itself is able to deal with that). Alternatively, you could look into home assistant modbus, to send a modbus command directly from home assistant. My implementation completely sidesteps the whole modbus translation phase, so if you'd be using it for reading, writing would make sense as well. pushing out DALI commands: I did receive my axons S605 not that long ago, been fiddling with it, see https://forum.unipi.technology/topic/966/dali-interface-integration-in-python-dali . I have the feeling support for this product is still in its infancy, as well as the python-dali library it depends on. If I would have some more low-level documentation on it, I would very much like to take the development on this to a higher level! If you'd like more input on how to use the unipitt binaries, and you feel a bit tech-savvy yourself, I'd be happy to help you set it up. That way, I can improve the project to make it more robust a portable for other interested users.
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  Hot tub controller with UniPi 1.1
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  Home Assistant - Evok - extension xS10 ?
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  Hi Steven, thanks for sharing us your experience with UniPi and kudos on the EVOK-MQTT bridge! We definitely want to support some ready-to-use opensource home automation SW and Home Assistant is one of the candidates (alongside the openHAB). But we have no definite plans yet... Martin
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  Another home automation project
  • BlackSoll  

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  @martin-kudláček said in Another home automation project: our din rail mounted relay - and connect it to DO or RO. Awkward, but it works. In most of my projects i use external relays to extend the life of embedded hardware relays, so it's not that awkward. I use mostly relays with coil voltage 230 V AC with UniPi 1.1 but now with the shared COM port and neuron power suply, i'll go with coil voltage 24 V DC.
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  Android app for UniPi using EVOK over websockets
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  @tomas_hora Hi Tomas, It is already, this is the test version: Dr.OnOff Have a nice day! Boris
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  Controll UniPi via Rj11 Connector
  unipi python automation programming project • • M.Musel  

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  Hello @M-Musel, I think this is not possible. Digital inputs are connected directly to the GPIOs of RPi's processor. You might be able to control only Relays/Ai and 1Wire but the rest will not work - I am also not sure if there are any I2C devices in the Pi-Top so you would have to make sure the addresses would not colide with I2C devices on UniPi. You also cannot connect two UniPis together via the I2C
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  Industrial automation project
  • Merv  

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  Sure there is a solution for each industrial. We hope this is a challenging work to bring the automation in this industry.
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  Nem home, automation project
  • rfortunas  

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  There are multiple solutions, see the list at wiki.unipi.technology Basically it depends if you want to use a free opensource solution (pidome,pimatic,…) or a completely different approach with proffesional solutions (Mervis) Both solutions are possible. But remember there are only 12digital inputs (14 if you make a custom cable). But eg with mervis you can hook multiple unipis together. Blinds are the same as lights, so yes. Depends on what AC you have, most of them has infrared remo tecontrol which should be used....