I use a jeelink USB device to connect 6 different Sensors (tx29dth-it) to my home assistant. This works so far since month and I have no problem so far.
But there is one question to me.
How can I control / check regularly if the sensors are still available ? This would be nice to see if the sensors are still working correctly.
How can I change / define the update rate on home assistant? As far as I see can see the sensor sends signal every few seconds, but home assistant only updates if there is a change of the value.
Hi, could you advise me how you managed to run these Sensors? I have the same (tx29dth-it) but I do not see them in my home assistant.
I checked a lot of post in this forum but was nit successfull so far. For the Question on how to check regularly if the sensors are still available I would propose to read out the battery status regulary. This could help to see if the sensors are still working.
please tell me how you integrated them. I am completely lost. I use the jeelink USB as you.
this is exactly what I did.
I have a similar yaml config, I have calculated the values as described bu i do not have the sensors anywhere visible in Home Assistant.
do I need to restart HASS completely or do I need to reload the yaml files (what I did) …
OK. Found the issue!
Actually I have connected 3 Sticks via USB. Z-Wave, Zigbee and the Jeelink. all of them are prbably too much for the RPi4 - the powered USB Switch seems to be brocken as this was also not working. I connected the jeelink alone and BOOM it worked. seems that I have to buy a new USB powered switch.
Hi Karle,
I think id did it in the same way like you.
i have checked the usb by plugging and unplugging the device it is definitely
/dev/ttyUSB0, the baud rate and the ids of the first two sensors are from Rasperymatic/fhem
the id of the third sensor is shown as 38 so in decimal = 56 /4 = 16
alle devices are listed, but all values are “unbekannt”
Do you or anybody else have a tip for me?
These is my config:
sensor:
- platform: lacrosse
device: /dev/ttyUSB0
baud: 57600
sensors:
gewaechshaus_klein_humidity:
name: Gewächshaus klein Humidity
type: humidity
id: 17
gewaechshaus_klein_temperature:
name: Gewächshaus klein Temperature
type: temperature
id: 17
gewaechshaus_klein_lacrosse_battery:
name: Gewächshaus klein Battery
type: battery
id: 17
gewaechshaus_vorgarten_humidity:
name: Gewächshaus Vorgarten Humidity
type: humidity
id: 44
gewaechshaus_vorgarten_temperature:
name: Gewächshaus Vorgarten Temperature
type: temperature
id: 44
gewaechshaus_vorgarten_lacrosse_battery:
name: Gewächshaus Vorgarten Sensor Battery
type: battery
id: 44
terrasse_humidity:
name: Terrasse Humidity
type: humidity
id: 14
terrasse_temperature:
name: Terrasse Temperature
type: temperature
id: 14
terrasse_lacrosse_battery:
name: Terrasse Sensor Battery
type: battery
id: 14
Thank you for your reply. Yes, it currently 16. “Unbekannt” is displayed for all 3 sensors for all three values. Do you ore anyone have any idea what the problem could be? The Led is blinking, and the the terrace sensor is only approx. 2 metre away.
Does nobody have any more ideas? I have also tested it on a Pi4 and Pi5 in the meantime. The same result. Chat GPT said it could be the rights one but homeassistent runs under root, I used haos_rpi5-64-11.5.img.xz to install homeassistent.
On my stick is written JeeLink JeeLabs.org/jl3
(in Raperymatic it returns values, but to get nice diagrams I have introduced extra homeassitent)
ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 returns crw-rw---- 1 root audio 188
ps -ef | grep homeassistant returns
312 root 0:00 ttyd -d1 -i hassio --writable -p 65444 tmux -u new -A -s homeassistant zsh -l
355 root 0:00 {tmux: client} tmux -u new -A -s homeassistant zsh -l
359 root 0:00 {tmux: server} tmux -u new -A -s homeassistant zsh -l
I stumbled across the same question as you intially did before the thread was captured I’m migrating from FHEM and used the tx29dth-it as presence detection for our cars (no updates for 5 mins = absent). In HA my automation only triggers on changes of attributes which can sometime take hours. Did you find a solution to change the update rate in HA?
Hello,
I am complete new in Home Assistanst. But I have used this sensors in openhab and had this problem also there.
The solution was to create a timestamp every time it send data.
Not clear if this is possible in Home Assistant but I think that should be possible.
If someone can do this public the solution here please.