Add ASA sun awning to HA using RFXtrx433XL

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Hi there,

HA newbie here; I have been playing around with HA for 3 weeks now and now trying to add some stuff that was previously uncontrollable :-). I am now running into a lack of understanding and the fact that things in HA keep changing and I’m unsure of the things I’m reading work now, or used to work in a previous version. I’m running HA on a Raspberry Pi 4.

I bought an RFXtrx433XL specifically to control my sun awning that uses an ASA motor that uses RFY protocol.

Using the Windows tool from RFXcom I was able to pair the sun awning on ID 5 05 05 and unit code 5.
Using info I found here, that would mean the device ID would become 071a000005050505.

I’ve installed the RFXTRX integration in HA, connected the RFXCOM device and it finds it, and when i enable automatic add, it finds a bunch of smoke detectors (from houses around me).

Now, I’m trying to add my sun awning.

I have added the following to my configuration.yaml:

rfxtrx:
  device: /dev/ttyUSB0
  devices:
    # zonnescherm
    "071a000005050505":

After restarting, nothing much seems to happen.

I’ve seen so many ways to add stuff into rfxcom on this forum, and there seems to be an old way and new way.

What is the best way to accomplish this, what am I missing or doing wrong?

Kind Regards,

Eduard

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OK; Solved this already.

For anyone struggling with RFXcom; the documentation seems wrong. After you install the integration, anything you do in configuration.yaml seems pointless. I’ve removed everything I did, reinstalled the integration and then just added the device code into the “event code” field in the integration configuration. A second window will then open to configure your device. After that, the device is available in HA.

Also note, for my ASA motor I had to use 071a030005050505 instead of 071a000005050505.

Hope this helps anyone :slight_smile:

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