Add Tellstick Duo in Hassos

smurfen · November 29, 2019, 9:21pm

Hi!
I am new to Home assistant, but got my Samsung TV and Pioneer AVR up running without problems at all.
But struggling to add my Tellstick Duo, and need som help as i can´t figure it out.
My setup is:
I am running the readymade Hassos ova 2.12.vmdk on a virtualbox that runs on a server 2016.
My Tellstick Duo is plugged in the small computer, and i think the Tellstick is visible for the guest in virtualbox, but not 100% sure.
I have added the Add-on “Tellstick” (TellStick and TellStick Duo service) in Hass.io, and it runs. And i have added the following lines in conffiguration.yaml:
tellstick:
host: core-tellstick
port: [50800, 50801]
But i do not see something even after a hassio restart.
Do i also have to install something more (Telldus Center) in the operatingsystem hassio is running on?
Hope someone can help me out or point me in the correct direction.

Burningstone · November 29, 2019, 9:28pm

I don’t own a tellstick,but did you check out the documentation for the tellstick

github.com

home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/tellstick/README.md

# Home Assistant Add-on: TellStick

TellStick and TellStick Duo service.

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## About

This add-on wraps around the `telldus-core` package to expose a service
for your TellStick and TellStick Duo.

This integration allows users to add switches, lights, and sensors which are
communicating with 433 MHz. There are a number of vendors (Capidi Elro,
Intertechno, Nexa, Proove, Sartano, and Viking) who are selling products that
work with TellStick.

For more details, please check the TellStick [protocol list][protocol-list].


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And for adding tellstick devices

smurfen · November 29, 2019, 10:00pm

Hi! Yes i did, several times. I added this in the configuration.yaml
tellstick:
host: core-tellstick
port: [50800, 50801]
and this:
light:
platform: tellstick
But where to put the json code for adding devices? and i dont find the tellstick config file either,where is that file?
Is it some command or a way to check if the Duo is visible in the CLI or something?

smurfen · November 30, 2019, 2:21pm

Update: It is working now, there was just a missing usb setting in Virtualbox

Hamster · February 20, 2021, 10:04pm

Hello @smurfen
I’m trying to migrate from RPi 4 to Proxmox.
Even though I can see the Tellstick, and the nc core-tellstick 50801 command play the 433MHz messages, Home Assistant seem not to recognize any of the configured devices.

I forwarded the USB devices to the hassosova.

Did you make additional USB configuratons to Proxmox?

Kindly.

smurfen · February 20, 2021, 11:10pm

Hi! @Hamster

I don´t know Proxmox, i am running Virtualbox (Freeware from Oracle) with Hassos,
(Alpine Linux with docker).
Add a filter and mount it in virtualbox.
Installed the add-on in HA and added this to the configuration.yaml

tellstick:
    host: core-tellstick
    port: [50800, 50801]
    signal_repetitions: 3

And add all the devices under configuration in the add-on.

Hamster · March 28, 2021, 9:09am

Hello
The issue was identified some weeks later when I tried to migrate to nuc instead of Proxmox.
The problem was that my configuration from the pi3/pi4 hardware had gpio defined. This is pi specific and broke some functions and especially switches when it started on nuc and Proxmox.

End of story was to remove pi hardware specific config and reboot. HA now run perfectly on nuc. Would probably be fine on Proxmox too.