Remote mechanical finger :)

[eagapov]

Hello guys,

does anybody know somethnig about this device and it's compatibility with RFXCOM and domoticz?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/micr ... ur-buttons#/

[jannl]

Seems wifi to me, so not compatible with RFXCOM I guess.

For now I think buying z-wave or kaku is better.

Nice idea by the way

[alfred_j_kwak]

Just yesterday I said to my wife that I'm 44 and I just did my first lightbulb firmware upgrade.

Now this.

[BazsoDombiAndras]

The official website of the Microbot Push is now here:
https://prota.info/pages/microbots

It's basically a robotic finger, or in other words an automatic button pusher, which can be controlled over Blutooth (not WiFi!) To control it over WiFi, you need an additional control center called Prota (https://prota.info/pages/prota).

I'm wondering if Domoticz can pair up with Bluetooth devices and control them (provided that the hardware which hosts Domoticz has Bluetooth capabilities - for example the Raspberry Pi 3). Can Domoticz control the Microbot Push? If not, are there any plans for this in the not-so-far future?

Thanks!

[an0key]

I've implemented these today, and wanted to do a direct Pi > MicroBot without having to use their Prota. That today isn't possible. Reverse engineering their BT commands is easy enough, and quite simple, however they do something 'odd' when pairing, and I cant get them to pair.

However they do offer a Pi image for their Prota hub. I have a load of old original spare Pis where I have upgraded them, so used one of those. Their Prota OS is way over engineer for what I need, i.e. trying to be a domoticz like OS.

That said, I have achieved what I wanted to do, which is Domoticz pushing a button (or rather two).

Instead of
Domoticz (BT) > MicroBot

I have had to do the below
Domoticz > Prota Webhook > Prota Story > Microbot

This means I need to go out to the internet, talk to their API, and which then talks to the Prota Pi, then to the MicroBot.

Some things I have observed... their API sometimes just doesn't respond. I've written a wrapper in bash to talk to their API, and try 10 times, if after that it gives up and sends me a message. I've also setup some monitoring to see how often their API dies...

They seem rather unresponsive on Twitter to my request to know how I might be able to pair directly.

Happy to share any of the code I have written to achieve the above.

[alexcf]

Did you get anywhere further with it? I can't find this webhooks thing you mentioned. I might be being totally blind!