Homematic Intrgration Address

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Hello All!
I have a CCU3 homematic connected - all woks okay.
I’d like to invoke the virtual key-service
According to the documentation you can send a virtual key trigger to either a virtual Channel (BidCos-RF) or a device directly.

Question now - how to I find the address of the homematic device? to send the virtual key directky to the device?

Thanks

Albert

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You can either look them up in your CCU, or within Home Assistant if you look at the entity-details at yourhomeassistant.com:8123/developer-tools/state. The entities have an attribute called id. That’s the address you need when calling the homematic.virtualkey service. The channel depends on which device you are using.

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Hi,

thanks for the feedback - when I trigger I receive this message:

address: QEQ0661768
channel: 1
param: PRESS_SHORT
interface: hm


PRESS_SHORT not datapoint in hm device QEQ0661768

Any idea? Thanks!!

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What kind of device do you want to control this way?

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It’s this a HM-LC-Sw4-DR-2
( HomeMatic 132763A0)

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That’s not a device you can control this way. You have to use the entity (switch.yourswitchname) and the switch.turn_on (or off) service. The homematic.virtualkey service is for devices that have buttons, like remote controls.

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Aha - good to know - then I have to work around this with the virtual remote in HM.
(Reason is that with the virtual remote I can set an auto-off after 60 seconds - useful for the hallway light)

Thank you anyways for getting back to me with that info!

Kind regards
Albert

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The virtual remote is a button of the CCU? Then you should be able to use the virtualkey service with BidCoS-RF as the address. That’s the address the CCU always has.

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