I’m currently looking to migrate from Domoticz to Home Assistant, but I could do with some pointers on being able to easily migrate RFXCOM devices between the 2 platforms.
My HA core is currently running via WSL, accessing an RFXCOM via ser2net on an old RPI located in a more central location of my property.
In Domoticz I have the IDs of the devices to move (some of which I don’t have remotes to fire the signal for), but i can’t figure out how to add via the GUI… I’ve so far stayed out of yaml files for devices etc.
I’ve tried searching the docs and this forum but am struggling… Any advice greatly appreciated.
Well, of course it is covered by HA documentation, but I understand your frustration after coming from Domoticz facing a different approach in HA. As I moved from DZ to HA already, want to assure you, there will be no regret. All what was possible in Domoticz, is much more handy to do in HA and much more. Like yourself I also use yaml config at minimum, but I rely to Node-Red add-on, which I suggest start using ASAP.
As for your particular problem, you can check my recent posts where I discussed related things. Depending whether you use RFXtrx integration, in HA you can enable automatic collection of new devices and then play with device entities with its data to show, etc. This is quite similar to what you do in Domoticz to detect existing devices. As in Domoticz you do it only temporarily as if enabled permanently it collects a lot of garbage. In HA you also can delete not needed devices/entities and disable collecting new devices in RFXtrx integration menu. Forget about device ID as they have been in DZ, and use another type of entity name. That all is possible using GUI as you prefer. If you can figure out more specific question, you may get more answers… Good luck.
Thanks. I eventually figured out the patterns to manually add COCO GDR2, lightwave and PT2262 devices I’d long lost the remotes for – but really surprised I couldn’t find a bigger library of the patterns (GDR2 and lightwaverf are given as examples on the RFXCOM docs, but not the lighting4 pattern which I found elsewhere). So far so good – I’ve quickly got to grips with things to the extent that it would be hard to return to Dom, my only niggle is that the RFXCOM integration doesn’t reconnect to my remote device (via ser2net) if the connection drops, but more a nuance of my config than anything else…