Hi All,
New to Home Assistant, having used OpenHAB for years before exploring HA over the last 2 months.
I wanted to share a bit of progress on a C-Bus C-Gate integration for Home Assistant, mainly for anyone considering HA but hesitant about setting up and maintaining an MQTT bridge.
This isn’t anti-MQTT at all — it’s powerful and well-proven — but this project is aimed at a more direct C-Gate approach, closer to how the OpenHAB C-Bus binding behaves.
Current status:
Lights
- Naming
- On/off
- Dimming (including low levels)
- Reliable state updates
Switches / groups
- Working as expected
Fans
- Naming
- Low / Medium / High commands work
- Fan speed changes correctly on C-Bus
- UI state in HA isn’t always staying in sync yet (actively being worked on)
The idea is to keep things feeling native in Home Assistant, with no external broker or translation layer required, and a structure that should feel familiar to anyone coming from OpenHAB.
If you’re already running C-Gate and exploring Home Assistant, this might be of interest. The main remaining focus is polishing the fan UI state before calling it “done”.
If you’d like to try it, here’s the link. Please note there’s no warranty or guarantee — this project is still very new and actively evolving.