Relay control from home assistant

Installation
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Dear forum
I have just started working with home assistant on a rasberry pi 4 it has managed to add sensors with integrations but want to start building controls but how do the control the gio pins in home assistant for relays or a usb relay and what hardware can work together with home assistant
Greetings jurgen

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I have github but how does that irrigation work thanks for the quick response I had read that but just started and still understand those hence the question

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Dear forum
Is this relay board suitable for a raspberrypi 4 and home assistant
Greetings jurgen

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Hi @Jurgen2003, have you heard of ESPHome, it’s for programming ESP8266/ESP32’s and more for whatever purpose you like, be it sensors, relays, lights and many more.

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Thanks I’m going to look into that
So a relias board on the. Giopinnn can so also with that

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From what I’ve seen searching, it’s possible, but unwise due to change of state during pi booting etc.

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The rasberry stays running in a home assistant situation toxh continuously but what is a better plan a usb relay or ethernet relay or wifi

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Dear forum
I am trying to understand how home assistant sends a relay. With some searching I find that this is about a start but it does not work
Via studio code server I added the conguration yml this
What am I doing wrong
Can anyone help
It is the relias on the gio pins.

Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.

default_config:

Load frontend themes from the themes folder

frontend:
themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
switches:

  • platform: rpi_gpio
    switches:
    • port: 21
      name: “CM4 relay1”
    • port: 22
      name: “CM4 relay2”
    • port: 23
      name: “CM4 relay3”
    • port: 27
      name: “CM4 relay4”
    • port: 24
      name: “CM4 relay5”
    • port: 28
      name: “CM4 relay6”
    • port: 29
      name: “CM4 relay7”
    • port: 25
      name: “CM4 relay8”
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Did you install the custom integration I linked above? The configuration won’t do anything if the integration doesn’t exist.

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Through hacs I downloaded the integration that was understandable , but I don’t understand it anymore

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Dear forum
it worked the relay switches but relay is switched on at position off and on in home assisntent it switches off is this normal it is a changeover contact so doesn’t make much difference but it was noticeable
greetings jurgen

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I’ve a raspberry pi 5 and can’t get it to work.
Entity’s are not showing up in the list.

EDIT:
“rpi_gpio” doens’t work with the library from rpi_gpio

Solutions is to use: GPIO from raboof/ha-gpio

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