Good morning all,
This is my first question on the forum so I hope I posted it in the correct category.
To be fair, I have been a Domoticz user for years, but since I miss a number of plugins and HA has these on board as standard, I am now investigating whether HA is a good replacement for me.
I have successfully installed HA on an intel NUC7i5BNK (it took a while but thanks to the forum it worked)
Because I have 3 screens in my house with which everything is controlled, I first keep using Domoticz - dashticz and try to proceed slowly and step by step.
I managed to operate HA via Domoticz through Node-Red.
The first thing I missed in Domoticz was a Somfy Tahoma plugin.
I managed to connect HA to Somfy and also operate it via Node-Red.
This is what the flow looks like:
if (msg.payload.nvalue == 0) state = "open_cover"
else if (msg.payload.nvalue == 1) state = "close_cover"
msg1 = {
payload: {
"domain": "cover",
"service": state,
"data": {
"entity_id": "cover.zonnescherm_links"
}
}
};
msg2 = {
payload: {
"domain": "cover",
"service": state,
"data": {
"entity_id": "cover.zonnescherm_midden"
}
}
};
msg3 = {
payload: {
"domain": "cover",
"service": state,
"data": {
"entity_id": "cover.zonnescherm_rechts"
}
}
};
return [ [msg1], [msg2], [msg3] ];
The problem I run into is that Somfy is not always stable in HA.
The 3 screens are placed together but do not run smoothly in sync.
Sometimes it seems that a screen is randomly not being commanded to open or close.
I created the Somfy API an app and added the API key and secret to my config.yam.
Is there something wrong? or something in Node-Red that causes this situation?