Configuration Homematic-Devices CUL Homegear

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Hi,

I am new in Home Assistant. I would like to switch from FHEM to HA. To control my Homematic devices (switches, thermostats) I would like to use my CUL 868 (from Busware) and the raspberry. Is there someone who can give some instructions? I think I have to install homegear on my raspberry…? Anybody of you did something similar and can give me tips to configure my devices? Thank you!

Best regards
Benny

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I am trying to use HA with Homegear and hmland. But still have Problems (Automation Trigger dont Work, ui state after switching with the UI not correct,…) I think i will Switch Back to FHEM.

How about You? Did you switch to HA?

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Hi cathiele,

how did you get your setup running with Homematic? I’m new to this system and currently use FHEM with hmland to connect to the Homematic USB-Stick (The so-called “Konfigurationsadapter” which isn’t sold any longer). I have no idea how to set this up - maybe you could paste your config here if you got it working?

Best Regards
Daniel

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I’m also trying to add CUL 868 USB support for my HomeMatic Thermostats and I’ve already tried a couple of Homegear tutorials. Many of them seem to be outdated / intended for an older version of Homegear and thus don’t work anymore. Overall I wasn’t satisfied with Homegear, starting with the fact that I couldn’t even install it on my Linux Mint 17 server because of dependency problems. Installation using docker worked, but then none of the online resources I could find were compatible.

I think I’ll write an interface for FHEM to integrate my HomeMatic devices in Home Assistant, but would be much happier if I had direct CUL USB support. Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything on how to work with the CUL USB and the existing Perl code in the FHEM code repo is anything but readable to me.

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Hi,
New to homeassistant - tried it for a week now with appdaemon and i like it :slight_smile: .
Now im in decision with thermostats to use/buy.
I dont want to use any cloud based access points/hubs etc. but i would like to use for example the Homematic IP HmIP-eTRV.
To integrate this device in homeassistant do i really need homegear and a nanoCUL ?
Is there a better sulution ?
Or are there any recommends which thermostats work well directly with homeassitant ?
Maby a wireless device which only controls the valve and the rest - mesurement of temp - automation etc. ist done by homeassistant core ?

thanks

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I haven’t followed the Homegear development, but that last time I have checked Homegear did not support IP devices at all.
If you want to use those devices and not buy the CCU, you could use RaspberryMatic. Here you use a regular Raspberry Pi together with either the LAN-gateway (HM-LGW-O-TW-W-EU) or the HM-MOD-RPI-PCB module.