Has anyone had any success in installing Tellstick Core in Hassbian Stretch? I’ve read and followed counteless attempts, but none seem to work. I’m able to install it and check the status after installation. It’ reports being active.
However, once I try to modify the file /etc/tellstick.conf to add devices and I do a tellstick core re-start it stops working saying it cant connect to Telldus service.
I have just moved from Jessie to Stretch, by doing a fresh installation. Home Assistant 0.60 was installed using the “Manual installation on a Raspberry Pi” instruction.
There was some minor problems with the Zwave controller (Razberry), and I could not get Telldus to work (I am using a Tellstick Duo with a set of temperature sensors).
For the Telldus problem, there is an “unstable” version available, that I have installed. Soo fare it works fine for me.
Hint of this version found here: https://forum.telldus.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5427
Before downloading the keys I also had to install had to install “dirmngr”. It looks like dirmngr is not included in Raspbian Stretch, but without any good replacement. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=193536
sudo apt-get install dirmngr
Rest of the installation instruction I found here: https://forum.telldus.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5427, but replaced http://download.telldus.com/debian/ stable main with https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/download.telldus.com unstable main.
Short summary:
sudo sh -c 'echo " deb https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/download.telldus.com unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys http://download.telldus.se/debian/telldus-public.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y telldus-core libftdi1
After the installation, I did a reboot, not sure if that necessary. I also had to do a restart of Home Assistant after the reboot to get the sensor values from Tellstick. This was also the case with my old installation.
Good luck, if you want to try, but again, be aware that this is not a stable version of Telldus.
Thank you very much for sharing; much appreciated. I’ve tried pretty much the same before, except for dirmngr. That may be the issue I’ve had in earlier attempts. All I wanted the tellstick for was sensors; so pretty disappointing.
In the interim I found a much better and cheaper solution. Worth a look!
Bought 2 (for a 3000 sqft residence coverage) sonoff rf bridges at USD9 each and flashed them with this awesome software. You can then use rf sensors at an average for 7 dollars each and they work better than telldus with better range.
Many thanks again.