RFLink arrived. And now?

[woody4165]

Hi

I just got the RFLink attached to the Raspberry.

I would like to start connecting a Temp/Humidity sensor from Oregon, THGR122N, and also a wireless electricity monitor from OWL, +USB.

But where to start?

I've added, in the Hardware tab, the RFLink as below:



Added twice on both ports proposed, because don't know where is connected!

And now?

How can I "pair" the Oregon and OWL to the RFLink and how I can define in Domoticz?

I'v searched in wiki and in most 3d related to RFLink, but haven't found a solution to a begginers with 433Mhz devices.

Any help?

Thanks
Vittorio

[leecollings]

Does anything appear in Devices?

Also, make sure in the Settings at the bottom of the general page that you have 'Accept new hardware' ticked

[woody4165]

In settings, Accept New Hardware is ticked and nothing is showed in Devices.
I'm very newbie to RFstuff...

[pj-r]

Just remove the extra hardware first.
You can check were the rflink is assigned with help of these commands:

Code: Select all

dmesg |grep ttyA
lsusb
lsusb - v
...

After that just allow adding new devices from settings and your sensors shoud start appearing to settings -> devices where you can select what to use.

[woody4165]

It's working, thanks.
I've shutdown the RPi, connected again the RFLink (but I did the same before ), and now I can see both the temp sensor and OWL.

So I don't have to do ("pair") nothing, it will appear automatically if a device is in the compatibility list?

[Stuntteam]

Yes, most of your devices will appear automatically.
All supported sensors will. Some devices you can add manually in case you lost a remote control.

When you have devices that are unsupported by RFLink you can use the RFlink Loader program to obtain debug data which you can send for evaluation.

[woody4165]

Thanks.
Is it possible to run RFLink Loader (or a similar one) directly from RPi to get debug data?
I tried a chinese motion sensor from a previous alarm I got.
I can see new devices from the Domoticz list, but it added me two devices, one is always On and the other always Off.

Last question, what if I switch off an RFLink device and remove it from the Domoticz device list?
It will be added again as soon as I will switch it on?

[RidingTheFlow]

To get debug data you just connect to RFLink via any serial terminal (screen, minicom etc). RFLink is serial device and sends data in cleartext.

[pj-r]

Pick up the "always On" device and after that set Off delay on settings page of the PIR. The device itself is sending on(or off) every time it senses move.
Its common for many PIR devices.

[woody4165]

I think that this motion sensor is not the compatible device list and this is why I don't get On/Off even if I put Off Delay on it's setting page.

[RidingTheFlow]

Even if its not compatible you can try to make it supported. Just follow guidelines on adding unsupported devices - http://www.nemcon.nl/blog2/2015/07/cc

Try to see with RFDEBUG if receiver gets any signal when sensor switches.