Need help with RFXtrx

Configuration
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Did you end up using an RFXtrx in Australia? I can get Somfy venetians to go up/down with it, but not tilt (the <0.5 or >2 second guidance in rfxmngr doesn’t work)

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Hi Sfmcfar,
the configuration seems not working anymore in new HA versions (I run HA Core 0.118.2 on HassOS 4.16 ). The syntax must have changed. Do you have your conf file still working ? Could you publish it ?
Thanks !

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Yep, the RFX config changed a while back. I have three blinds that I control:

# Cover
rfxtrx:
  device: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-RFXCOM_RFXtrx433_XXXXXX-if00-port0
  automatic_add: true
  devices:
    071a000001020101:
    071a000001020201:
    071a000001020301:

cover:
  - platform: group
    name: Great Room Upper Blinds
    entities:
      - cover.rfy_010201_1
      - cover.rfy_010202_1
      - cover.rfy_010203_1

And you give them friendly names via the front-end.

Hope this helps,

Stan

24

Sorry for the long absence…
Yes i did get it to work, fairly easily. My case is roller blinds, so unfortunately I cannot comment on tilt :cry:

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Hi all,

I am fairly new to home assistant, so i need some help adding two somfy rfy blinds to HA.

I configured the somfy motors via RFXmgr, and this works! I have used the following ID and unit codes:
01020301
01020302

i am using the config provided by stan.

but there are no devices or entities found in HA.

what am I missing? it’s driving me crazy,
any help is welcome :slight_smile:

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Did you add the RFXCOM integration via Configuration → Integrations → +ADD INTEGRATION?

27

Yes, already added. All other switches and lights (kaku) are working.

28

Did you restart HA Core or did you reload the RFXCOM integration after configuring the Somfy motors?
Just checking the basics first :slight_smile:

A Core restart or an integration-reload is required to be able to discover any new devices.

29

Another suggestion: did you tick Enable automatic add under OPTIONS before the restart/reload?

30

I did restart the thing like crazy :smile: Also automatic add is enabled, kaku devices are automatically found when Triggered. What is the Trigger for the somfy blinds to be found. When i use the remote, the blinds are not found in ha.

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Try adding this in configuration.yaml:

rfxtrx:
    devices:
        01020301:
        01020302:

That should help in detecting the two devices.

And, there’s one more thing to try if that doesn’t work: in the manual I read this:

ADD A DEVICE BY EVENT CODE

To manually add a device, in the options window, an event code can be added in the field Enter event code to add.

32

adding the device manually did the trick! seems like the rfxtrx config in the configuration.yaml doesn’t work in combination with the rfxcom intergration.

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Thanks for helping me out!

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Nice! You’re welcome :slight_smile: