RFLink over WiFi best options

[Juliean_Galak]

I did get it to work, but because of the specific sensors I had bought the whole thing was so frustrating that I gave up and got a Sonoff RF Bridge. Not nearly as capable, but was much easier to get to work. May go back and poke at the RFLink eventually.

[RGN01 (Richard)]

Thank you for your reply, @Juliean_Galak Once I replaced my Arduino Mega for one that provides 3V3 I can get it to link to HASS but I still can’t get HASS to drive the blinds attached / issue the right code.

I continue to work with it!

[RGN01 (Richard)]

@Juliean_Galak did you happen to document the NodeMCU settings you used? I’m becoming convinced that this is where my problem lies - but can’t figure out where!

[RGN01 (Richard)]

I managed to get it sorted - not entirely sure how but it is working. Thanks for your help!

[gabter (Gabor)]

I hope you can point me in the right direction, I’m unable to configure Home Assistant with my RFLink and EspEasy. Everything seems to be working, but the sensors and switches do not appear in Home Assistant.
This is how EspEasy is set up and what’s showing in RFLink uploader:

Configuration.yaml:

#RFLink
rflink:
  host: 192.168.88.164
  port: 8989
  wait_for_ack: true

#RFlink sensors
  - platform: rflink
    automatic_add: false
    devices:
      02a4_temp:
        name: Outside Temperature
        sensor_type: temperature
      02a4_hum:
        name: Outside Humidity
        sensor_type: humidity
      02a4_bat:
        name: Outside Sensor Battery
        sensor_type: battery

I have also tried with bl999_02a4_temp, …
I have also tried auto_discovery with automatic_add: true.

EspEasy seems to be getting the data from RFLink as the log shows:
31802881: WD : Uptime 530 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 20568 WiFiStatus 3
31814960: EVENT: !RFLink#
31814971: EVENT: !RFLink#adioFrequencyLink - RFLink Gateway V1.1 - R48;
31820525: EVENT: !RFLink#
31820533: EVENT: !RFLink#RadioFrequencyLink - RFLink Gateway V1.1 -
31820541: EVENT: !RFLink#
31824053: EVENT: !RFLink#
31824061: EVENT: !RFLink#S;setRF433=ON;setNodoNRF=OFF;setMilight=OFF;
31824069: EVENT: !RFLink#ingColors=OFF;setAnsluta=OFF;setGPIO=OFF;
31824079: EVENT: !RFLink#=OFF;setMysensors=OFF;
31864652: EVENT: !RFLink#
31864660: EVENT: !RFLink#ID=41;SWITCH=1;CMD=ON;
32321956: EVENT: !RFLink#
32321964: EVENT: !RFLink#ID=02a4;TEMP=0084;HUM=74;BAT=OK;

Home assistant log shows Rflink to be connected:
2019-10-24 08:38:17 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.rflink] Initiating Rflink connection
2019-10-24 08:38:22 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.rflink] Connected to Rflink

But still, no data is displayed in Home assistant, the sensors show “Unknown”.

Any ideas, where it went astray?
Thanks.

[francisp (Francis)]

It looks OK. According to this thread the setting are right :

RFLink on Robotdyn ATMEGA 2560 with embedded ESP8266 and ESPEasy

After strugling a day with making my RFLink work with the ESP8266 I’ve finally got it working. Hardware Robotdyn WiFi R3 ATmega2560 + ESP8266 - https://goo.gl/GoNb6v Downloads ESPEasy Mega 4mb - https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/releases RFLink http://www.rflink.nl/blog2/download ATmega2560 part Set the dipswitches of the Robotdyn to a. 1: off, 2:off, 3:on, 4:on, 5:off, 6:off, 7:off, 8:off b. This will enable sketch uploading for the ATmega2560 Connect the Robotdyn to the comp…

For the moment I’m using this :

GitHub - seb821/espRFLinkMQTT: ESP8266 gateway between RFLink and MQTT server

You can always try another port.

[gabter (Gabor)]

Thanks, that’s exactly the link I used to figure out the setup (the only difference is my ESP-01 is separate, not embedded on the MEGA. That’s why I don’t understand why it’s not working. It seems that the data does not get through from EspEasy to HASS. There is nothing in the HASS log, except that it got connected to RfLink.
espRFLinkMQTT is working, but I was hoping I could get stuff autoconfigured with the direct setup, and maybe it consumes less resources than MQTT.

[francisp (Francis)]

If you use espeasy, if HA connects you should see an entry here

A message like ser2net connected. If not, you probably have to try another port.

[gabter (Gabor)]

Thanks. I tried different ports, none seemed to work. I checked with Packet sniffer on my router, it seems that no packet was sent out on those ports by EspEasy.
Solved it finally using Esp-link, which connected without a problem.
Thanks for the help.

[sylvaing (Sylvain Garcia)]

Hi, I use my rflink with MQTT gateway on ESP since 1 year without any problems:

seb821/espRFLinkMQTT

Very good projet, just work!
I have Two rflink one 433,92 Mhz and an other for Somfy RTS 433,42 Mhz

[mrrodge]

@sylvaing

Very good projet, just work!
I have Two rflink one 433,92 Mhz and an other for Somfy RTS 433,42 Mhz

That’s exactly what I’m looking to do. Going to get pre-built Nodo devices, connect one locally and use the RFLink integration and ESP the other.

New to the ESP bit though, any advice on what device to use/how to connect it to the Arduino?

Thanks!

[electrik (Rik)]

This is a similar approach as I’m using.
Did you get it working with the rflink integration in Hass IO also?

[proton999]

After my first approach to get RFlink talking to HA with the espRFLinkMQTT over MQTT it was working fine but it not really intergrated in HA.
So, I have put RFlink on a Arduino Mega 2650 mini and a Wemos D1 mini with Esp-link on it to do the serial communication over wifi. With this combination the RFlink intergration is as simple as over USB. Just fill in the IP adress and port number and you good to go.
I added a few switches, temperature sensors an two window screens (covers).

[francisp (Francis)]

This works, but HA only supports one RfLink this way. If you need a second, the only solution I know that works well is espRfLinkMQTT.

[AhmadK (akasma74)]

probably because in case of serial port somehow the port is ‘captured’ by one of the RFLinks when with MQTT anyone can post and listen

[francisp (Francis)]

No. It’s ‘baked’ in the integration to only support one RFLink. There is a topic on it on the forum. Even if I copy all the Rflink files and put them in custom_components, and change all references in the python files from ‘Rflink’ to ‘Rflink2’, as soon as the files are there HA does not start any more.

[AhmadK (akasma74)]

hmm… any chance to have a link to that topic?

[francisp (Francis)]

Here are some :

Dual Rflinks

Hi! I have two Rflinks, one for 433MHz and one for receiving 868MHz. I thought it would not work to connect both to the same Pi, but it does. It shows the sensor values as expected, but at the same time logs an error due to “duplicate key port”. And thats true, I’ve entered both ports in configuration.yaml. Anybody else tried this setup?

2 RFlink devices

I want to use two rflink devices on my HAS. One for Somfy covers and one for switches / lights etc. I have to use 2 RFlink devices because they operate at different frequencies. I can have them both working separately but not together. I have searched for a solution on this forum and made some changes in my config, but it´s still not working. I made a custom_components folder in my config directory. In this folder I made a folder named rflink2 with a file inside called rflink2.py In this filled…

Home assitant with 2 rflink

not buy for now

[electrik (Rik)]

I got it working also but I went the ‘lazy’ route. In node-red I’m sending the raw data received on the mqtt topic to a port which is then connected by rflink from HA.

[stryker (jonathan spooner)]

just on a side note re usb dongles… my server is not in a good place for my usb zwave and zigbee dongles… so I’ve got them plugged into a raspberry pi in the middle of the house and I share the two usb dongles back to my ha server using usbip. Google it, the devices show up like any other locally connected usb device and thus far has worked flawlessly.