Archive for September, 2013

In the continuing discovery of the Domoticz software I bought a couple of Home Easy HE305 magnetic door switches

To try to get them working I first of all had to switch on the Home Easy EU in the Rfxcom control panel like this

and the use the “Learn” button on the switches tab. This recognised the switch as long as I was very close to the Rftrx transceiver.

But – it does not work reliably. It updates the log for every time I remove the magnet and again when the magnet is close enough, but it only sporadically updates the panels.

So I may have to raise a bug…

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UPDATE : Found the problem – edit the switch to se the correct type like this :

This changes the display to :

Experimenting with Domoticz running on a Raspberry Pi – with a few routines pulling data from the house monitoring systems

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So in the end I bought one of these transceivers

It can communicate with a very long list of 433 Mhz devices – the full list is here .

And I plugged it into my Raspberry Pi running Domoticz

I can see my weather station sensors – so now I may get around the problem where my receiver (inside) stopped working when the temperature in the room goes below 15 degrees Celsius (!)