I built my house a couple of years ago and included HDL SmartBus as the smart house system (http://hdlautomation.com). This means that all my lighting and a lot off other stuff is connected to relays and dimmers, and the switches in attached to a low voltage bus. I also have a connection between this and my network. I would really like to connect this to my home-assistant system, but can’t find any integrations.
So, first question is: does anyone know something about this or have started working on it? I found a node.js project on it here - https://github.com/caligo-mentis/smart-bus.
If nobody is working on it - could anyone point me in the right direction to get this started? I do some python programming, but is a bit short on time. Could I use the node.js project somehow?
Hi, I’ve got the same problem. It will be great, if someone could explain me some details about Smart-Bus protocol. I’m also trying to make homebridge plugin based on npm smart-bus for my apple home. If you already tried to control any relays via this node app - please, text me.
So far, I think the most plausible solution is to use the web server from https://github.com/roys/java-hdl-webserver and have normal web calls do the actions. I’ve installed the server, but can’t get it to discover my gateway yet, as I have it on a different subnet. I’m hoping that will be solved, as I have contacted the developer.
thanks for suggestion! I’ve also got some progress in my work. I’ve installed HDL setup tool and WireShark. With help of WireShark I got some UDP commands, and now I can control lights. Everything works pretty well, but I still don’t know, how to get data from sensors. Later I’ll try try java-hdl-webserver.
I have just created a simple tool to integrate hdl smart bus protocol to home assistant. At this moment relays only supported (and I think not all of them) Here is simple demo. If you guys still interested let me know.
then run my binary: ./hdl-arm --ip 192.168.10.10 --mqtt tcp://192.168.10.11:1883 --mqttUser USERNAME --mqttPass PASSWORD
parameters:
ip - ip address of the raspberry pi you are running this binary on
I hope the rest parameters are understandable, you should use your own values
I believe that your raspberry pi and SB-DN-1IP device should be in the same subnetwork. After a couple of seconds(minutes) you will see you hdl relays.
So I finally had time to test this, and I ran into an issue:
hdl-arm connects to the mqtt server:
1510258934: New connection from 172.30.32.1 on port 1883.
1510258934: New client connected from 172.30.32.1 as 4a6d49e3-ade6-4763-a76d-f956b419ac17 (c1, k60).
1510259051: New connection from 172.30.32.1 on port 1883.
1510259051: New client connected from 172.30.32.1 as hdl-mqtt (c1, k30, u’andreas’).
But nothing happens - no relays appears. Anything I could test? Could I run it with debugging on?
Thanks! I just switched to Hass.io, and I guess that is docker. The ip of the RP is 192.168.10.24 and the HDL is on …250. I’ll try the debug when I get home from work.
It seems that the problem is with the docker and listening to the local interface. The debug shows:
core-ssh:/addons# ./hdl-arm --ip 192.168.10.24 --mqtt tcp://192.168.10.24:1883 --mqttUser andreas --mqttPass HIDDEN --logLevel DEBUG
2017/11/11 11:52:13 [DEBUG] 192.168.10.255:6000
And then nothing more happens.
Anything I could test, or do I need to test it with another RP (without Hass.io).
I’ve got this working now by using another RP - Thanks! It reports the status of some of my equipment, but does not seem to be able to turn things off or on. Is this to be expected, or am I missing something? In my mqtt log, I can see that HA sends the right commands (e.g. “homeassistant/switch/hdl_1_32_1/set” to 100) but the logs of hdl-arm shows nothing.
Also, can we get the unsupported equipment to work? I have some relays, 8in1 (the 12in1 reports temperature nor) and temperature sensors that I would love to get to work with this.
You should be able to turn on/off switches that appear in home assistant. Are you using wifi on the computer where my app runs? What is the model of the switches you can’t control?
I will add support for new devices in future, just a little bit busy now.
Right now I’m running it on wifi, but I can try to switch it over to LAN tonight. The switch is a SB-DN-R1216.
I would be happy to contribute in any way on getting the unsupported devices supported - supplying logs, developing, documenting or even putting some money on the table.
These are the ones I would like to see happen:
SB-DN-DT0601 (dimmer - 6 channels)
SB-CMS-8-in-1 (temperature and movement would be good)
SB-MTS04-2 (4 temperatures)
SB-DLD (Would be great to be able to get the temperature readings from these to)