Thanks, this helped me out. I just site mine up on an apple device, here is what I did:
“Paired” with the Pulse 2 app and added all devices.
Did a reset and added it to the Home app to get it connected to Wifi.
Removed it from the Home app.
Added it to Home Assistant using the HomeKit Controller integration and the pairing code.
There may be a better way but this was the first solution I found that worked for me and was fairly easy.
Just to clarify - not saying this is a better solution than what you did, just providing another path to getting it working in case someone is having issues.
Got a second blind and the Pulse Hub v2 yesterday. Followed these instructions and got both blinds showing up in HA. Was a bit tricky and had to reset hub once but got there.
I was wondering if anyone knows how to add new blinds without resetting the hub and having to add all blinds in again? The second blind did not come across, so ended up doing the reset thing.
I added the pulse2 to HomeKit with no problem but then needed to rebuild my homeassistant installation. When I got HA back up it was not finding the pulse2. I factory reset pulse2 a couple of times reconnecting it to my WIFI successfully each time. A couple of times HA did find the pulse3/homekit but when I entered the code it told me that the device was no longer available. Before I offer my solution, it is possible that I had another instance of HA running (dont ask) so that might have caused all my problems. But if someone is having a similar problem here is how I solved it. On the android app I went through the set-up process connecting the pulse2 to WIFI (this did require a factory reset of pulse2 - recessed button press) once the pulse2 found its own wifi and then went to connect back to my main wifi, before I pressed next on the android app, I connected the pulse2/homekit instance using the homekit code on the pulse2 device (yes HA did find it). I then finished the set-up on the android app. I hope this makes sense and helps someone. (partly because it means the issue was not me mistakenly running two instances of HA at the same time)
Hello All,
I have 4 Rollease blinds which I’m trying to have work under HA. The discussion here is about how to do so using the Rollease Acmeda Automate Pulse 2 Hub, but two different techniques (integrations) are being used:
Rollease Acmeda Automate Pulse 2 Hub Integration written by atmurry. This integration interfaces directly with the Pulse 2 Hub. According to HA it has 0% use in active installations. See www.home-assistant.io/integrations/acmeda/
So which integration should I use? I’ve tried 2) and had nothing but problems. Currently I’m unable to get the integration to recognise my hub. I’d love to hear your experiences and opinion.
I have been using the Homekit integration - it was easy to set up and has been operating without any bugs for 2 years!
I haven’t tried the other one which may be good (or better?)… but I can recommend the homekit integration.
NOTE: you have to power cycle the PULSE HUB when you have a power outage or power cycle the HA server. Not sure if that has to do with the integrations.
I see now that there are actually two versions of the Acmeda Automate Pulse Hub integration: one for Pulse version 1 hubs written by atmurray, and another for Pulse v2 hubs written by sillyfrog.
I’m trying to use the latter as I have a Pulse 2 hub, following the instructions at github.com/sillyfrog/Automate-Pulse-v2. I have successfully loaded the integration but I’m stuck at the step where it attempts to connect to my hub. When the integration starts I put in the IP address found on the Automate Pulse 2 app which is the same as that found on my router. However, this always ends with “Failed to connect”.
I have downloaded the Automate Pulse LINQ app to my Mac and it successfully connects to the hub.
I’ve tried looking in the Configuration->Logs and Supervisor->System log but apparently the integration does not write to either???
I’m hoping someone out there will have some ideas on what I’m doing wrong.
I have been away from the home automation scene. Did a clean install of the new HassOS and so glad this custom integration exists. Thank you very much @sillyfrog !! Everything worked straight from the box.
@tallcuss - Do you have different subnets or firewall rules blocking your home assistant by any chance? Is your Pulse 2 hub on a static IP address?
Thanks Bunyip183 and timolol for your thoughts, but I’ve made no progress.
I cranked up the log messages and whilst I got a lot more messages, none mentioned the Pulse v2 integration or aiopulse2.
Some questions:
Must aiopulse2 be installed separately using the CLI command “pip install aiopulse2”? There’s no mention of it in sillyfrog’s instructions.
When connecting to the hub, must the P (pair?) button on the hub be pressed?
Is it normal/possible to have more than one device (HA, Automate Pulse2 mobile app, etc) connected to the hub simultaneously?
After connecting to the hub, were you able to connect the hub to your router via an ethernet cable and do away with the WiFi connection?
No. That is only required to pair new entities to the hub
Yes. I can still access my blinds through HA, Automate Pulse2 app and RF remote. Though I’ve never tried using all three methods simultaneously.
Initially I did have the ethernet cable connected but I reverted back to WiFi only because I found that it caused problems when trying to use the Automate Pulse2 app.
@tallcuss You don’t need to do a pip install - Home Assistant takes care of that for you.
As mentioned, I would suggest going with HACS. It took me a while to get around to using HACS myself, - and now I have started, I regret it took me so long! I have made that repo compatible with HACS (as you probably noticed). Once HACS is setup it’s much easier for any new module, and you have access to a lot more integrations - many of which are kept up to date (which you don’t get with core). This aiopulse2 integration has been pending for nearly a year to get into core. I’m now working to get it as part of HACS default instead.
That said, if you are getting to the point where you can enter an IP address, then the install I think has gone well. It’s probably a connectivity issue. For the setup, I would suggest exiting all apps etc (on your computer/phone) - as there are some channels that only allow a single connection.
To crank up the debugging just for this, I have the following to cover all aspects of the plugin and module:
logger:
default: info
logs:
aiopulse2: debug
automate: debug
custom_components.automate: debug
Here’s what happens when I attempt to add the Pulse2 Integration: Configuration->Integrations->+ ADD INTEGRATION->Automate Pulse Hub V2. At that point a small popup window appears requesting the hub IP address. I enter the IP address 192.168.1.100 that my router shows for the WiFi connection of “espressif”, MAC address C4-4F-33-18-F7-81, and hit SUBMIT. A rotating arrow occurs for a few seconds and I get the message “Failed to connect”. When I linger the mouse over the SUBMIT button it shows the message “Not all required fields are filled in”.
I had already tried disconnecting everything from the hub so the Automate Pulse 2 Hub Integration would be the only connection. I’ve also tried many other things. None of them changed anything.
I used your suggested entry in my configuration.yaml file to output additional log messages, but there were no additional messages. (I’m looking at Configuration->Logs-> LOAD FULL ASSISTANT LOG, right?) When I look at the Python code I cannot see any logger messages that would be output if the connection were refused, and this would agree with what I’m seeing.
I am able to connect to the hub using the Automate Pulse 2 app on my phone and the PulseLINQ app on my Mac. Using the latter app I can see the hub’s serial number is 1010981 and its firmware version is 010100. The motors are type U (240v AC) and their firmware versions are 21 and 22.
Some questions:
Can I make changes to the Python in place (like insert logger statements), reboot the system and have it run properly?
First I worked out the log I need to be looking at is in config/home-assistant.log.
I’ve also found that the hub connection problem is aiopulse2.Hub, function test() throwing an exception saying it cannot connect to the hub. I determined this by placing logger statements into the Automate-Pulse-v2 Python code.
I’d like to pursue this further by placing similar statements into the aiopulse2 code but I’m unable to find the code in the Home Assistant system.
How does Home Assistant “take care of” installing aiopulse2? Where is the aiopulse2 code located in the system?
@tallcuss - that’s the URL for their RPC (API) end point (at least at the time of inspecting the traffic). Web sockets are also at URL’s, and start with an HTTP connection that’s then upgraded to a websocket stream.
Another small step: This code snippet runs fine with my Pulse 2 Hub
import socket
HOST = '192.168.1.100' # hub address
PORT = 1487 # port
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
s.sendall(b'!000NAME?;')
data = s.recv(1024)
print('Received', data.decode("utf-8"))
Producing the output
Received !000NAMEdefault;
Meanwhile I’ve found that when using the Automate Pulse 2 Hub Integration the code get stuck when attempting to connect to my hub, i.e. aiopulse2, device.py, line 361
async with websockets.connect(self.wsuri, ssl=ssl_context) as websocket:
I got a replacement Pulse 2 Hub from the dealer, plugged it in, did the phone Automate Pulse 2 app thing and then attempted to add the Automate Pulse Hub v2 Integration to Home Assistant. It worked! I am now able to see all my blinds and move them via Home Assistant. So it was a hardware problem!
