Hello!
I’ve just gotten started with Home Assistant: installed it on my Raspberry Pi 3 with the pre-cooked VM image on an SD card (version 0.107.6). First of all, kudos to the developers, maintainers, and community. Home Assistant is quite impressive!
I have 5 RF-controlled (433 MHz) plugs distributed in my apartment, each controlling a light, which I switch on and off with a transceiver connected to the GPIO pins of my Raspberry Pi. The following lines in my configuration.yaml do the magic, e.g.:
switch:
- platform: rpi_rf
gpio: 17
switches:
# 1 in the remote control
llum_peu_tele:
code_on: XXXXXXX # Actual number here...
code_off: XXXXXXX # Actual number here...
pulselength: 170
signal_repetitions: 15
Works beautifully. The only annoying problem is that when I reboot the Raspberry Pi, the state is gone: all switches reset to off.
After searching left and right in the forum, I have the following alternative (maintaining the switch lines above):
input_boolean:
testbool:
name: Test1
icon: mdi:floor-lamp
automation:
- alias: 'Test input_boolean'
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.testbool
to: 'on'
action:
service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.llum_peu_tele
With this scheme I can turn the light on/off and, additionally, the input_boolean maintains the state after reboots (the switch does not).
I could add one such block for every switch (power plug) and every trigger (on/off), but it strikes me as too cumbersome. Also, with this scheme I see both the input boolean and the switch in my Lovelace interface, but that’s a minor issue (and can probably be solved easily once I have a bit more experience).
Is there a straightforward way to add the input_boolean functionality to a switch so as to retain its state under reboots? Is the input_boolean my only hope?
Many thanks in advance for any pointer you may provide!
PS: I’ve searched extensively in the forum and did not manage to find an obvious solution. Apologies in advance in case I failed to find the right post.