Tellstick

[Lars65]

Is there any kind person who could help with a walkthrough, how to install a tellstick in domoticz?
I have it working with tdtool, but I just don't know how to add it to domoticz.

[antonh]

I have the same problem, did you find a solution?

[mlamie]

Did you check and tried one of the below wiki pages?

In case you found a good solution, please provide some feedback I can update the wiki pages. It's a bit weird that 4 pages are existing...

http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Adding_Tellstick_Support
http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Basic_Tell ... h_Domoticz
http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Basic_Tell ... aspberryPi

http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Linux#Add_ ... _Tellstick

[antonh]

Well the installation of telldus-core went fine and I can control the switches using ssh, but I can't get the devices to show up in Domoticz, even though one of the pages says that adding Tellstick in Hardware would make the switches show up in Devices. Will try a bit more to make it work.

None of the wiki pages clearly describes how to control the switches.

[bjacobse]

hi,
I only managed to get Tellstick to work like this:
Create dummy switch for each Tellstick switch device

and follow how I managed to get to be working
http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic ... 40#p102352

[Nerre]

It is very frustrating that there are several wiki pages, but none of them mention the integration with Domoticz...

I too have my Tellstick up and running with tdtool, in the Hardware setup in Domotics I can select Tellstick (which I assume means the version I am running supports Tellstick, otherwise it is very misleading).

But trying to operate it from Domotics I get "Error: Switch command not send!, Hardware device disabled or not found!"

How does the current integration with Tellstick work? Does Domoticz communicate directly with the Tellstick device or does it use telldusd?

Do I need to recompile Domoticz even though it shows Tellstick as an available hardware type?

Since Domoticz is supposed to have native support now it would really suck to have to go by the dummy switch and script solution.

[Zuikkis]

Tellstick support uses telldusd. All switches must be configured in /etc/tellstick.conf, however it's easy to just add fake entries there and teach them to your devices when needed.

However! Tellstick support is perhaps missing in the current beta builds. It works fine when I compile domoticz from source, but not if I download the binary. This is currently being investigated.

[Nerre]

Great, then I'll just wait for next release.

[Nerre]

Seems like it will take time before there is a precompiled version with Tellstick support.

I think I'll have a try with NexaHome instead of messing with compiling Domoticz. I just wanted to try somthing that works out of the box, and currently it seems as if Domoticz doesn't when it comes to Tellstick. If NexaHome sucks I might reconsider to compile Domoticz myself.

[Zuikkis]

Sorry, I forgot to update here what was discussed in github..

https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz/issues/1418

The problem is, libtelldus-core.so is a shared library, and cannot be linked statically to domoticz. If domoticz is compiled with Tellstick support, it refuses to run on systems that don't have telldus libraries installed.

Compiling domoticz is quite trivial, maybe you should try it?

http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Installing ... spberry_PI

[Nerre]

I started looking at Domoticz because I wanted to find something that I can start using with my old tellstick right away. If I need to compile it I will have to install a build environment on my very small SD card on my old Raspberry Pi, wasting valuable space. And to be able to keep the system updated I would have to keep the build environment installed.

To much trouble for me. I used to mess with compiling stuff, but nowadays I only install stuff using packages. Gives me a lot less headaches. I can live with that I sometimes can't get the version I want. Then I just wait a year or two (I did that with Zoneminder for example). No problem for me, I'm not in a hurry, I just want it to work out of the box.

[domo2017]

Did you check and tried one of the below wiki pages?

In case you found a good solution, please provide some feedback I can update the wiki pages. It's a bit weird that 4 pages are existing...

http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Adding_Tellstick_Support
http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Basic_Tell ... h_Domoticz
http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Basic_Tell ... aspberryPi

http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Linux#Add_ ... _Tellstick

Hi,

I installed domotictz with "curl -L install.domoticz.com | bash" (Version: 3.8356) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, after this install a Tellstick (http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Linux#Add_ ... _Tellstick). If I will add a new switch, this is inpossible. In the log: "Switch command not send!, Hardware device disabled or not found!"

With the "Old workaround for Tellstick" the stick is running, but this is only a emergency solution for me.

What am I doing wrong?

[domo2017]

is it not possible to install tellstick afterwards?

[bjacobse]

yes, but after changing your tellstick conf, you shall restart the service, as tellstick dont know the new/added devices. Reboot your rpi with tellstick running or maybe this:
systemctl restart tellstick.service
systemctl restart domoticz.service

[Nerre]

From what I understand you cannot get Tellstick support in Domoticz by the easy install. The referenced web page says you must install telldus-core before compiling Domitcz.

This means you need to compile Domoticz yourself to get Tellstick support.

And compiling on an old rPi 2b does not seem trivial (the compiling instructions state that compilation times are measured on a Pi3, and that you most likely need to install an older version of GCC, and that's where I stopped reading).

[canix1]

Is this still true? That you need to compile and not use the Easy install? I have no problems running the compile and have been running tellstick for quite some time now, but I'm thinking about upgrade to a Raspberry 3B+. Do the easy install support Tellstick yet?

[Jings]

For anyone finding this in the future:
I tried to get the internal Telstick support to work with "easy install" of version 4.9700 on a Raspberry Pi, but none of the devices I'd configured in telstick.conf showed up in Domoticz as devices. I then tried to compile version 4.10078, and when i added the Telstick in Domoticz, all my devices in telstick.comf showed up automatically in Domoticz

It _might_ be a problem with the specific Easy Install version I tried, but It looks like you need to compile Domoticz from source to get native Telstick support.