Support for Velbus Home Automation

I see that the vmb1ts is not loading.

Not sure why, as I do not own this old legacy module.

Hi,

In the previous Velbus integration, this module has always worked perfectly. The only one, as far as I know, was the VMB1TCW and the VMB4PD, who where not integrated. The VMB1TS module is still available at Velleman.

yes, in the previous version it worked, but keep in mind this is a complete rewrite of the module.

about the vmb1ts module, i start to think that there was an error somewhere in the script.
as the loading and loaded variable are both false, and if i read the code correctly this should never happen, except if an exception occured during the initialize of the module.

Can you try to give me the full log (in text version)? or contact met on discord cereal#0919

In the upcoming release (3 november) most of the above problems should be solved.

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did the update. Still no climate. Am I missing something?

Clear the velbus cache

In the config die .storage/velbuscache

Clear that folder

mmm same thing. No climate entities

then we need to setup a debug session, so i can have a look

sure, tell me what to do

What update? Latest update i can see was 1november. Wasnt there supposed to be one today?

At first glance the update didn’t really improve my situation either. For some reason now device names aren’t complete anymore. Clearing the cache and even re-adding the integration results in the same scrambled up names. For example instead of Shutter Relay 1, the device is now added as shttr Relay 1. Same with Push Garden is now Pus Garden.

I even rewrote the whole bus using VelbusLink to make sure the device names were correct but that didn’t seem to do the trick. I’ll monitor if this affects the functionality in the long run.

Climate is there. The update just came out. Thanks

Where can we find this folder in home assistant os, with file editor I can not go higher than the folder config…

It’s in /config/.storage/velbuscache

Thanks, the climate is back but the temperature of the vmbgp4pir is now unavailable.

vmbgp4pir does also support a thermostat not?
in that case it should be avilable as a thermostat, is it maybe an idea to export both, a climate device and a sensor for each module that supports temperature and climate?

Yes. That changed now. The thermostat function is back but the individual temp entity is no longer available. Not a big issue since its part of the current thermostat temp

However in same case it might be useful to have the individual temp also

The pull-request has been created:

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this PR is merged and will be in the 2021.11.1 release

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Hi Cereal2nd, I noticed that the issues described above by other users are still present in the 2021.11.1 release. Its about the incomplete or missing characters in the channel names, and the climate that is sometimes not working properly.
I have a solution for these issues and requires a small change in velbusaio. It works well when I test velbusaio separately on my system. But in Home Assistant, Velbus is not fully loaded when HA is restarted. After HA startup you have to do a reload of the Velbus integration to fully load the Velbus modules. This is not related to my change. Maybe you can help here. Once it works well, I can do a pull request of velbusaio.