I have a home assistant setup that has been doing everything I imagined and then some with at home.
Unfortunately I’ve had things stolen out of my car at my apartment, so I’ve decided it’s time to move after the third time. At the same time I’ve been planning an overlanding rig so I’m deciding to combine the two situations and live in my truck for a year at least.
The three features I will miss the most is walking into a room and having the lights turn on, a bedtime mode that shuts everything off and sets the heat a degree lower and my alarm system that flashes the lights and starts playing music.
I can easily run HA on a rasberry pi in my truck, I also have starlink so I can also put HA in my private cloud and just connect over IP VPN to a smaller controller in the truck. I see benefit/drawback to both (namely I will need internet anyway for my alarms and some things to work)
Is there a chance someone out there has done something similar with ESP or something? My current plan to control lights, pumps, etc… is with a redarc manager30, but I see a lot more flexibility just using a basic power management system, and controlling everything from relays powered by an rpi or something.
I’m not skilled to make a new integration for the redarc (it would be nice if talking to it over bluetooth was no more than making some python script, no idea), but I can do the ESP basics.
I’m also looking for replacements that don’t require a lot of tinkering that are DC powered I can monitor powerusage of each DC circuit.
I recently purchased a Patriot Camper and optioned for the Redarc TVMS Manager30. And would like to be able to bring Control and data from that system into HA.
The Camper Trailer Rig has a Starlink Connection and can be powered on/off from the Redarc, as well as many other standard functions like Water Levels and lighting / 12V switching and Power Loads / Solar Input etc.
There is a Mobile App that is great and works (most of the time) when you are within BLE / Bluetooth range. the issue is that the Redard is mounted and enclosed in a metal box when closed up and when being pulled behind the car there is no access via the Mobile App as the BLE / Bluetooth signal is to weak.
I’m planning on running a RaspberryPi on a mini Network that is always running with a Travel Router with External Wifi Antenna, something like the Gl-iNet X300 and have the starlink connect to that instead of the AC powered Startlink Router.
I have successfully got a Bluetti AC200 Max polling via BLE and works great, but trying to work out how I could do the same for the Redarc and also REMCO Lithium Batteries that have BLE built in too.
Has anyone embarked on trying to interface with a Redarc System in HA?
The redarc devices communicate to the display panel over CANBUS, I’m making progress towards sniffing the network and hopefully proxying the messages to mqtt.
I’ve begged support to fast track an IP device that can be plugged into a house network for automation, and they won’t share any technical details at all. so it will be a completely creative process.
I’m not a developer at all, so anything I comeup with will be hacky at best
If I don’t have any luck with the CANBUS, my next attempt will be to proxy the bluetooth connection between my phone and the display unit and see if I can then pair it to my onboard RPI and proxy the connections that way.
I too have starlink and a wifi network I get about 300ft of range, so the goal is to be able to get updates over cellular and make sure power is set to minimal as soon as I leave the range of the vehicle triggered by my openwrt device tracker on my phone’s mac address.
