Support for Velbus Home Automation

Feature Requests
387

Hi,

Did you manage to take a look at the Cooling (AC) mode in HA wrt Velbus?

R

388

Hello,
I just migrated from docker HA to HAOS, and I uploaded my backup file.
But now I have access to none of my Velbus devices, the error is the following:

velbusaio.exceptions.VelbusConnectionFailed: ā€˜Connection setup failedā€™

Also there is no .storage folder anymore, so not sure what to doā€¦
Thanks !

389

i would remove and re-add the velbus integration

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390

Hello,

I am using this integration for some time now and it is great! For some modules I have some issues/questions:

VMBPIRO:

  • updates temperature almost every 5 minutes ā†’ great
  • light value is only updated on system restart, can this value be updated more frequently?

VMBPIRM:

  • light value is only updated on system restart, can this value be updated more frequently?

VMBEL1, VMBEL2, VMBEL4 and VMBELO:

  • temperature value is only updated on system restart, can this value be updated more frequently?

I donā€™t know if this is supported or maybe I need to change some things in Velbuslink, but it sure would be very nice if this would work. :slight_smile:

Thanks!
Robbe

391

are all modules configured to send sensor updates?
via velbuslink you can configure this.

we do not poll, we wait until a module sends an update

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392

Aha, good to know, Iā€™ll check that this evening :slight_smile: Thanks!

393

That did it, thanks!! :slight_smile:

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394

Hi,
i have a velbus system with a connection to a signum module.
Now i want to connect it to Home assistantā€¦
I installed the velbus integration, but iā€™m stuck at the connection stringā€¦
What should i use to connect home assistant with the signum module?

i have read through this thread, but did not find a answer to thisā€¦

395

the connection string is build like this:

tls://password@host:27015

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396

@Cereal2nd

Hi fella

Someone put a comment on one of my videos, asking about the MemoText feature.

Apparently, a MemoText message appears, but as soon as he presses a button, it vanishes

Is this how you intended it to work?

(As in, does HA automatically send the NULL message?)

See comments in this video - https://youtu.be/hSgGj2zHdUE?si=BfVLH_UhiWfkXAfV

Their HA Community post on this subject

397

What must be wrong with my yaml ? cos the memotext is not in my oled (GPOD )

alias: memo via usb
description: ""
trigger: []
condition: []
action:
  - service: velbus.set_memo_text
    data:
      interface: dev/ttyACM0
      memo_text: testUSB
      address: 20
mode: single

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398

shoulde be /dev/ttyACM0

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399

I have created an integration with my velbus installation in HA (the new Home Assistant Green).
The gaz and water counter of the VMB7IN do not work in the energy dashboard of HA. They are not recognized as gaz and water counter and HA says itā€™s a problem xith the integration.
Is it a bug in the integration? Or a configuration to change in velbuslink?
Thanks

400

Hello,

I saw on the velbus-aio github that a function had been added to toggle the edge LEDs on the edgelit switches. I searched for the service but it is not there. I saw that on April 1 of this year @wlcrs was talking about writing this service call. Is this functionality already available?

Thanks!
Robbe

401

Hi

These behave the same way as a normal #Velbus feedback light / LED.

Set / ON
Clear / OFF
Slow_blink
Fast_blink
Very_fast_blink

Itā€™s only the colour setting that is more complex.

@Cereal2nd
Am I correct in saying that HA supports affecting Velbus feedback states?

Is this example in the docs still valid?

402

@Cereal2nd
Whatā€™s the correct way of reporting this bug?

Is there an appropriate TAG on GitHub for these?

@fontainechristophe
Please note the response from Maikel below.

Thanks @Cereal2nd :man_superhero:

403

Hello,

Thanks for this. Yesterday I added the hidden feedback led entities and I guess I was not patient enough, I could not switch the status, they were always displayed as ā€œonā€ (even if they were off). When I tried the same thing this morning, I was able to change the status. Iā€™m not at home for the moment so I canā€™t tell if the LEDs are really on or off, but it seems to work. So I just had to wait a little longer before trying to change the feedback status of the LEDs.

For the colour setting: it would be nice if that would work too! :grinning:

404

Youā€™re very welcome.

Iā€™m not very good with HomeAssistant, but happy to share what little I know.

A little odd that it needed some time to adjust, but again, happy that itā€™s working for you.

But donā€™t forgetā€¦

If something else in your system requires the LED to be ā€œONā€, any lower command will be ignored.

Think of the logic as an OR gate.

Thatā€™s a lot deeper in the software and may be outside of the roadmap for integration.

It should be noted that ad-hoc colour setting happens by writing directly to the memory map and isnā€™t advised as a long term solution.

Howeverā€¦

Donā€™t forget that you can assign colour change events to button presses and other events.

If itā€™s possible to mimic button events from HA, you could activate unused button groups of an OLED panel (without enabling their respective page on the display) and assign each actions to set the colours you want.

Alternativelyā€¦

I have got a flow for NodeRed that will set colours on the flyā€¦

405

bugreports should go here:

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406

Hi,

I tested it now I am at home but the feeback led is not lighting up. When I toggle the physical button to turn on the light, the led feedback state in home assistant follows (even if there is no feedback led programmed in velbus). So if I turn the light on, in home assistant the feedback led switches to on (but the led itself is not on), and it switches off when I turn of the light. But when I toggle the feedback led entity in home assistant nothing happens. Is it nessacary that the feedback led functionality is enabled on the specific module in velbuslink?