FYI, Dresden Elektronik have offered to donate RaspBee and ConBee hardware to developers of Home Assistant if they would like to implement native support for them (to use without seperate DeConz bridge), see comment from manup here:
I see some traffic coming to my blog from this link, so just wanted to link my two guides that are about setting up Conbee in Home Assistant (with Trådfri lights) and setting up a Trådfri motion sensor to work in Home Assistant with Node Red as middleman to ensure immediate updating of sensor status (otherwise it takes about 30 s for the state to switch).
The guides are in Swedish (sorry ), but there are pictures / screenshots for every little thing and Google Translate should work well for you to understand the rest.
The Pi used in the guide has Pixel desktop, so not headless (due to the blog being oriented primarily to people who are relative beginners, it is often convenient to have the desktop available).
Once configured, though, you have no need to really interact with the deCONZ desktop app at all.
(Not sure, however, if it is possible to do more advanced stuff like firmware update for bulbs exclusively via the rest api, I am going to look into it soon).
It is possible to run deCONZ in headless mode (without X11) as well, see this Github thread: https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/issues/9
I personally have not tested it, but I seem to recall that it worked fine for at least one of my readers.
Wow that’s a lot of development, I may buy this dongle for my Pi that actually runs HA
do you know if it is possible to do OTA updates for different brands with this?
I have an osram plug and an ikea tradfri that needs update and I don’t want to buy gateway to only update devices
@abmantis when you say this what do you mean by that ? I run Home assistant in a docker containter so the customer_module i developed runs in that. To add sensors you need to run deConz software, open network (done in deConz) and depending on the sensor turn it or in some cases do a reset of the sensor. What kind of sensor are we talking about also what do you have ConBee or RaspBee ?
I’ve quickly wrote a simple GUI for the Rest API to get some config infos, permit join, rename and delete sensors. You can find it on my github.
@abmantis - I’ve managed to include Xiaomi Sensors by permit join, then click on the small button on the sensor for about 3 seconds - as soon as the led lights up stop clicking the button. Then they should be joined.
My sensors also don’t show up on the deconz webapp - that’s why I wrote this simple tool. I think the official webapp is only for their lightning products.
Since I want to run deconz headless, I needed a way to add devices, and though that the web ui was the only way. With @Romanski GUI I can get around that. I could also do the REST requests myself.
So yeah, I don’t need the web ui.
By the way, is there any way to pair a device with two gateways? For example, having a sensor paired with the Xiaomi gateway and the Raspbee simultaneously.