Python Plugin : Broadlink

[zak45]

Hello everyone can someone do a step by step instalation for the RM4 mini ? I was confused with all this. Someone shows the Broadlink RM2 with kodi remote and their plugin didnt have the RM2 in the sellection. Whats that plug in and where to find ? also did someone manage to understand why the setup.py is faulty when someone try to install it ?

what do not work on the process described at first page ?

[rutek024]

I know this is not the answer, but as a previous Broadlink user I want to mention I found a nice Zigbee alternative and have recently added support for this in Domoticz

Tuya Zigbee Smart IR Remote Controller (~ 9 euro)

https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005008588051335.html

MOES Tuya ZigBee Smart IR Remote Control Universal Infrared (18 euro)

https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005004176577444.html

Working perfectly here with by AC

Could you please explain how to connect this to Domoticz?
Is there a plugin for this?

[jvdz]

You simply connect to zigbee2mqtt or other zigbee hub.
I use it to send mqtt messages via a lua script to control devices. So created dummy switches and when they switch on or off it sends the required it code to mqtt.

[TiXav]

I gave up this plugin and now I use this
https://github.com/eschava/broadlink-mqtt
Now I can control (Heat Pump / Tv / Soundbar / candles(LED) like this
from Dzvents script with executeShellCommand:

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topic= 'Broadlink/x/'..string.lower(folder)..'/'..string.lower(name)
--         Broadlink/x/tv/volminus                                --to reduce volume of my tv, so name above is the name of a push button
local CmdStr ='mosquitto_pub -t '..topic..' -m replay'
dz.executeShellCommand({
	command = CmdStr,
	callback = 'Retour_Mosquitto',
	timeout = 2,
})

In Mqtt explorer:

MQTTexplorer.png (12.45 KiB) Viewed 51 times

In fact the topic above correspond to the folder/file where the IR command is stored

Folder where located the IR command.png (7.89 KiB) Viewed 51 times

The best : I copy the old IR commands from the python broadlink plugin (the .ini files) into the folder of the broadlink-mqtt (I renamed them and keep in, only the IR code) and it's working WELL!

There is also an automatic learning functionality of new IR code but I did not use it yet

I hope that would help someone...