LightwaveRF integration not doing anything

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Apologies but complete newbie to HA saw it on the youtubes and wanted to try. So far most things work as expected i have it installted, talking to the zigbee stick and doing weather etc online so its good.
My issue though is that i want to get my older kit working, looking at the docs you can use Lightwave as an integration adding it to your configuration.yaml and it somehow shows up.
So i followed the instructions added in

# lightwave test
lightwave:
  host: 192.168.0.119
  lights:
    R1D3:
      name: Wall lights
    R1D4:
      name: Ceiling lights
  switches:
    R1D2:
      name: Tree socket
    R2D1:
      name: Radio socket
    R2D2:
      name: Light socket
    R2D3:
      name: Phone socket
    R7D1:
      name: Hall_plug

then restarted home assistant completely but as far as i can see it does nothing, no butons no integrations to amend etc… so what am i missing here? Again sorry but just starting out.

2

As I remember, you get a switch entity for each light/socket - there’s no UI integration as such. If you go to Settings | Devices & Services | Entities they should be listed.

The main problem I experienced was getting the room and device numbers right - I think that was derived from the order in which they appeared in the app. Setting up was partly a matter of trial and error - toggle a switch in HA and see which light comes on.

Have you got Connect series devices or Smart series? (Smart are the more recent.) If you have Connect, you’ll find that the switches do not report their state back to HA, so it’s very easy to get out of sync if a switch is used manually. This is a “feature” of the switches, nothing to be done about it.

Since they are RF devices you may be able to get rid of the hub and use them locally with a remote like the Broadlink Pro. I did this a couple of years ago with my Connect series switches - which is why my memory is a bit hazy. :thinking:

3

Thanks for this it got me a step further, i added the config, and the room and device so R1D1 and one for the lights. So now the entity shows up, but clicking them does nothing.

4

Is it perhaps toggling a different light from the one you expected?