Still trying to work my way around the whole Home Automation world and enjoying it so far.
I recently bought an unbranded version of one of these:
It works in Smart-Life so I know it ‘works’ as such and HA hass.io on my RPi3 seems to find it ok (along with the other 25 devices etc):
TS0215A
by _TZ3000_wr2ucaj9
Zigbee Coordinator
IEEE: bc:33:ac:ff:fe:63:xx:xx
Nwk: 0x58c1
Device Type: EndDevice
LQI: 55
RSSI: Unknown
Last Seen: 2021-01-21T14:18:49 (< pressed just before sending this)
Power Source: Battery or Unknown
It found a couple of entities:
binary_sensor.tz3000_wr2ucaj9_ts0215a_ias_zone
What I have renamed ‘Panic button’ and …
sensor.tz3000_wr2ucaj9_ts0215a_power (‘Panic Button battery’)
The latter shows as 100% as of an hour in the future (time stamp timing issue?). That said, taking the battery out for a while and putting it back didn’t seem to be noticed (no gap / drop in the graph)?
However, I haven’t been able to get it to do anything when trying to add it into an automation? What have I missed please? ;-(
Is it like the Sonoff pushbutton switch where the button doesn’t have an entity and you have to capture an event?
Erm, ‘quite probably’ I am, judging by your question Tom. ;-(
I think I used what you are referring to (event triggers) with a Sonoff SNZB-01 and I tried to emulate what I did but replacing the bits I could but with no luck.
This is all very new to me and I’m leaning (exploring) new things every day.
How should I proceed in finding out what is needed to be able to use these SOS buttons please? Is there enough into in what I posted and from the link that suggests that the ‘TS0215A_sos’ is supported but mine seems to report as just a ‘TS0215A’?
That’s what I just tried to add to configuration.yaml and it gives:
‘duplicated mapping key at line 67, column -204:
sensor:
^’
Possibly because there is already a ‘sensor’ entry in there (for the date and time, when I was trying to get to the bottom of logs being out of time with the real time) or me doing something very silly? ;-(
What mqtt broker are you using?
Erm, I did look into this and understood that HA comes with one ‘built in’ so I was happy to leave it like that?
This is how big HA is (especially to an old and lowly ex Datacomms support Tech):
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This is where I am:
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I have tried creating an automation and looked at state and event to toggle a switch with a desk lamp in it but as yet no luck?
Are we sure that this particular device is supported (it doesn’t have the SOS letters on the button or the -sos in the name when discovered) or must it be given it’s ‘found’ with the add-device etc?
I really am in the dark with this as I don’t understand the relationship between the devices / system pre/post adding the MQTT broker etc? ;-(
Could you suggest how you would normally add something like this please in case I’m missing something?
Well, I went back in and there seems to be an automagic feel to it and when I ran their ‘How to test’ bit, it looked like I got the sort of thing back as expected (as much as any of these sorts of guides ever seem to match what I have in front of me etc).
"Message 0 received on home-assistant/switch/1/power at 16:51:
On
QoS: 0 - Retain: false "
I think I’ll just leave the TP-Link P100 smart WiFi switches to the Tapo phone app and this SOS button to the Smart Life app.
Thanks though.
Cheers, T i m
p.s. I seem to have had more luck flashing a new CC2531 as a sniffer and getting Wireshark running. Only because the walk-throughs worked.
Em, I’ve just come back to this SOS fob again and re-installed the Mosquitto MQTT broker and it does seem to be as I suggested and a automagic installation (ok, you get it and tell it to install but it needs no configuration (and therefore no need to ‘read the documentation’))? ?
Anyway, the test message seemed to work like before so now I just need to find out how it will help me see the SOS fob etc.
Just picked one of these up and ZHA picks it up fine. Seems to work okay and treated as an ‘Alarm’ vs a SOS panic button. I guess this could make sense. However the button press ‘triggers’ the alarm, but there is no easy way to reset (disarm). I can see the disarm entity, but it requires a disarm code. …yet no way to set or see the code. Does anyone else have these under ZHA? Eventually it’ll time out and reset at some point.