My RFXCom based setup for 433MHz has been working great, and I recently enabled debug output whilst I was trying to catch a new sensor. I’ve since noticed in my logs that I have a seemingly rogue sensor transmitting with a new ID every 30 seconds or so. It only appears when the RFXCom is configured to receive the Oregon Scientific protocol.
I live in a fairy remote location, so I’d be surprised if it was someone elses device. It’s not my weather station either, and everything else is accounted for. I have automatic_add: enable for the sensors class with rfxtrx, but nothing is being added.
What confuses me is that it’s a new ID every time, so even if I add it to the config, it never reappears.
You don’t happen to have a radio scanner or SDR radio, right?
That’s what I would use to check if the signal is actually existing (and it’s not imagined by the RFXcom or locally generated)…and then maybe pinpoint its location.
It might be my Alevel 0214 LPG tank sensor. As far as I can tell, though, that sensor isn’t supported by RFXCom at all. It might be the fallout of it trying to interpret it. I’ll trudge out into the snow tomorrow to see if there’s any correlation.
Even if it is the same device… I’m still in ‘undecoded land’ I do have a bunch of SDR captures from it [1] a few months ago. But I haven’t been able to figure them out yet. Will see.
Awesome, thank you @b_weijenberg - it was my OWL energy sensor that was providing those messages.
100% down to my lack of understanding what the Pkt_id is. I already had my sensor as 115a0100e452000000046600006462cb3e79 so I didn’t understand where all these ‘different’ IDs were coming from.
That just leaves me with a pile of SDR captures from my LPG sensor now rfxmgr doesn’t seem to report anything when the LPG sensor flashes its ‘transmit’ LED. Something for another day!
This just needs the RFXCom to be configured to receive Owl messages, and you’ll see your ID in the logs I think… or maybe in the list of devices in Home-Assistant these days. After that, you can add the ID under devices: as above.