Moving from PiLight to Home assistant, but so confused

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Hi,

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)

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I think you just need to use the pilight component in HA, but maybe I don’t understand your situation

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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

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That depends on how you install HA. You can install HA on your existing Pi with Pilight using this installation method.

Note that this will not install hassio, but the differences are shown in the FAQ.

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Does this fit your requirements?

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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

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Interoperable with codes sniffed via the rpi-rf module or rc-switch.

Did you try that?

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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.