I am currently using PiLight to control my lights in the living room. But I really like what I see from Homeassistant. So I would like to change the Raspberry PI that i currently use for PiLight to use Homeassistant. (i dont have a 2nd PI atm and really want to use just 1 PI for what i describe below)
I have my 433Mhz transmitter and receiver directly connected to the GPIO of the raspberry PI.
I have tried a day now to get Homeassistant to work, but I think I am stuck in some missing concepts I think.
From what I read it seems RFlink is really the best approach, but I have not found any good explanation on how RFLink can work with Homeassistant when the 433Mhz receiver/transmitter are directly connected to the RPI on which home assistant is running (everything assumes that the sender/receiver are on some other device). I then also looked at 'Raspberry Pi RF Switch", but I am stuck on how that would work.
Am I trying to do something that is just not supported? Or am i completely blind and have I just missed the obvious explanation somewhere?
(I am very new to home automation and new to this forum, so if I posted it in the wrong section, i do apologize)
thanks for the reply, but when I move to Home assistant I wont have Pilight anymore as Homeassistant will be running on that RPI. My confusion I think is, that I don’t understand why Homeassistant is not able to work with 433Mhz Transmitter/Receiver that is connected to the GPIO of the RPI that Homeassistant is installed on
I have tried that one, but could not figure out the right codes. I recorded the codes with Pilight, but that does not seem to translate to the codes used in PI RF switch
Thanks for the help all. Decided on buying a new PI just for Homeassistant, I am really impressed by it. So I will leave PiLight running for the lights.