Hi all, I’ve got a Brink Renovent Sky (wtw/hru) in my home that I’d like to control in home assistant. I’ve got a dedicated wireless button that I put in my bathroom to control it. It has 4 buttons on it.
My Brink has a rf receiver connected that catches the signals from the button. I was hoping I could replicate those signals and send them from home assistant. But I can’t find anyone doing it like that. I also can’t find the frequency they’re using. Anyone knows more about that?
It has this on the top on a sticker: rf receiver 510519
I’ve got a rflink laying around but am not able to find any data with that. But it might also be my lack of knowledge in that regard.
Or should I go another route to achieve this? I would like to automatically turn on the fan higher when the shower turns on, and off when the humidity is below a certain point again.
Hi, unfortunately not. Do you also have the rf module and a remote? I would imagine we should be able to use that to clone it. But I couldn’t catch any signals via rflink. I’m not sure which frequency is used.
Yes got the same setup. A box on top of the WTW with 510519 RF reciever and 4 button RF Sender in the bathroom.
I also have a wired switch in the living room with 3 options. Low - mid - high.
Read somewhere SONOFF DUALR3 could be used to replace this one and then a 3-button wireless switch to control it from the living room.
Would be way easier to replicate RF signal from HA, just no idea how.
Nope! I heard that some people in the appartment building have got it working with a zigbee relay, but I haven’t heard back from them yet how exactly it works.
Yeah shelly 2.5 should be able to, found some forum posts about this. Ordered one to try and ordered another RF repeater with a broader spectrum of HZ to see if that can replicate the signal. Hope one of those options will work.
The RF copier did not work, unfortunately. I found out another option, there is an EBUS connector on top of the brink and ordered a ESP wifi module. It reads the data over MQTT and at this point I am able to read data, filter status, temp, fan speed etc. Currently trying to figure out how to write data to it to change the speed fan. Dont have any MQTT experience prior to this so hope I can figure this out.
That’s cool! Can you link me to the module you bought? Maybe I can have a look as well. Do you have a photo of the connector? I’ll have to look for mine.
I got this eBus module. and used ebusd integration. with MQTT to read data. I needed to define custom .csv with all brink options. Read data is showing up, just struggle with the MQTT format to send it commands. .
I managed to got it working, I found someone on github who could help me with the config. I was trying to send MQTT payloads directly from an automation. But I needed to add MQTT as a Fan config in the configuration.yaml and after a bit of tweaking in the automations I got it working as intented. If the humidity sensor in bathroom goes above 60% it goes to speed 3 (100%) and dropping below 60% again it will return to speed 1 (33%). Going to add more sensors from living room and sleeping room to use as triggers control the WTW unit.
If you are going to buy an ebus adaptor I can tell you the exact config I used in HA.
Super cool, well done. Are you using the same unit as I am? I’m gathering the hardware and am wondering if the big green connector can be used as it looks different.
It’s a bit different. I have Brink Renovent (no sky) I think it has to do with the way it’s mounted. Looks like yours is a ceiling unit ? Mine is mounted against the wall.
Brink Renovent Sky has the external controller with display connected over eBUS. You can connect multiple devices on ebus and polarity does not matter (at least with this adapter) so you can safely add your adapter in parallel with the display. For reading values this is fine (I just got it to work), for controlling the unit it will be “fighting” over control of the unit with the display, but it should be possible to get it to work (but I am not there yet).
Hi @Zwoet, I’m trying exactly the same approach as you.
I bought this adapter (version 6.3) and connected to my Brink ebus port (Renovent Excellent 400). Initial configuration seems to be working, I made the module telnet connectivity test to port 3334 and can see binary traffic.
My problem now is to integrate it with eBUSd. I deployed the HA addon and configured it, but it seems that the 7c.csv file is not been recognized. I have download it from here and uploaded to HAOS /config as 7c.csv file.
Here is my eBUSd initial log, with some error messages. Any tip here?
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
ebusd --foreground --mqtthost=core-mosquitto --mqttport=1883 --mqttuser=addons --mqttpass=yeel6IeKaiz4HooTh1gohveeWee4ya1eiZeegeelee4dohSeiraijo2ieb9cah3H --scanconfig --mqttjson --mqttint=/etc/ebusd/mqtt-hassio.cfg --mqtttopic=ebusd --device=enh:192.168.68.65:3335 --log=all:notice
2024-10-23 17:14:26.435 [main notice] ebusd 23.2.p20230716 started with auto scan on device: 192.168.68.65:3335, enhanced
2024-10-23 17:14:27.238 [bus notice] device status: resetting
2024-10-23 17:14:27.238 [bus notice] bus started with own address 31/36
2024-10-23 17:14:27.246 [bus notice] device status: reset
2024-10-23 17:14:27.258 [bus notice] signal acquired
2024-10-23 17:14:28.064 [mqtt notice] connection established
2024-10-23 17:14:31.876 [bus notice] new master 77, master count 2
2024-10-23 17:14:37.454 [bus notice] scan 7c: ;ENCON; ;-;-
2024-10-23 17:14:37.454 [update notice] store 7c ident: done
2024-10-23 17:14:37.454 [update notice] sent scan-read scan.7c QQ=31: ENCON; ;-;-
2024-10-23 17:14:37.454 [bus notice] scan 7c: ;ENCON; ;-;-
2024-10-23 17:14:37.591 [main error] HTTP failure: receive error: 404 Not Found
2024-10-23 17:14:37.591 [main error] unable to load scan config 7c: list files in encon ERR: element not found
2024-10-23 17:14:37.591 [main error] scan config 7c: ERR: element not found
2024-10-23 17:16:29.756 [main notice] update check: version 23.3 available
2024-10-23 17:18:19.238 [update notice] received update-read broadcast id QQ=77: ENCON; ;-;-
Hey Nivalk and others, I to seem to be busy with the ebus challenge (also a Renovent Excellent 400). It seems you do not specify a config path. As i understand this means ebusd will look for a config file in an online repro (and this repro does not contain Brink csv’s). Second thing I found is that you not only need to specify a local config path, but within that path you need to create a dir named after the “manufacturer”, encon in this case. The 7c.csv file must be in that encon dir.
In my case this is still not working, my current issue is that “default” settings I found for Brink devices do not work. Here is a link to my question at the Ebusd repro Either “ERR: read timeout during receive…” or “ERR: SYN received during receive…” · john30/ebusd · Discussion #1369.
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