Have successfully managed to add 8 BG900 sockets to Home Assistant.
All sockets running the same firmware but not all connected easily and restarting my mobile seemed to improve chances of success.
What I did was:-
Used BG Home app, setup to add device using AP config
Set socket into AP mode (intermittent flashing buttons)
Socket connected to phone by selecting the BGHome-xxxxx network as per app info popup
Select 2.4G network to be used and socket connect to wifi (in some cases had to repeat this step)
Don’t add socket to BG Home app as this will lock it. i.e. stop when ‘Add to room’ appears.
Used Broadlink app to setup socket, it finds the newly added one when you run app.
Name socket and unlock
Repeat 1-7 for each socket you have, BG Home app has no registered devices as these are all setup in the Broadlink app.
Added each socket to Home Assistant and configured automations
Added Broadlink skill to Alexa
If you lock them then HA won’t be able to connect to the sockets if restarted.
Thanks for this info. Had my socket for sometime. Just updated the firmware on it and followed your instructions here and it work straight way. Very happy.
This works perfectly up until step 6. However, in the Broadlink App when I select the device previously setup by BG Home App I get this screen:
Adding device is failed
The device is connected to the network, but the current account location does not match the user area supported by the device, so the device cannot be added to the account…
I am in the UK, does this only work if I set my location to Europe or USA? This is a UK BG Smart model from Screwfix. Just puzzled as to why the steps working for others are failing in the Broadlink app.
I added it in the bghome app, stopped at the add to a room prompt (step 5) but left the app open and then looked at my router for the IP address and used that to add a broadlink integration in HA. Didn’t use the broadlink app at all.
Based upon the ethos of these steps the following worked successfully for me in the UK:
I left all my ten 900 series smart sockets intact and registered on the BG App.
Download Broadlink iOS app.
Put first socket into AP Config Mode. (Hold both buttons down until you hear the relay click then release. They should be flashing red/blue)
Using Broadlink then ‘add device’
Broadlink find device.
Setup device with name for device and both sockets.
Once device registered select the device in Broadlink then click the 3 dots in the top RH of the screen.
Select ‘Attribute’
Scroll to the base of the screen and uncheck ‘Lock device’.
Select ‘Device Info’ and note the IP Address of the device.
Head to HA and add the Broadlink integration. Add the first IP address and check it registers.
Repeat steps 3 to 11 for each socket. Note on step 11 you need to add a new integration each time but these subsequent additions appear on the single Broadlink integration.
I’ve done this successfully for 3 of my sockets so far. I can now use interact with them from BG, Broadlink or HA. Hope this helps… Thanks @540YMX for the golden nuggets to get this working!!
Hi @craigmdennis. I realised on my side that when my router restarts the socket becomes unavailable.
I can make it work from the app, however the only way to get it back on HA is to remove the Broadlink integration and restart the integration.
I’m wondering if you have faced the same issue and if you have a recommendation to overcome this one?
I had to assign a static IP in my router for each switch so that the router assigned the same address each time a switch disconnected. Since I did that I haven’t had any disconnections or ‘unavailable’ (touch wood).
You can find the IP of each socket in the app under ‘socket name’ → attribute → Device info.
Silly question… what’s the full name of the “Broadlink” app on the Android play store? there are many variations so I got a bit lost…
Had mine working fine today, rebooted HA server and then my sockets don’t work as they are reporting as locked, so need to use the refined steps shared in this thread to unlock.
Has anybody else noticed odd behaviour with their BG smart sockets?
I’ve got a few lamps plugged into ours, and every now and then, they will randomly switch on for a split second then off, which makes the lamp flash. Checking the home assistant log, it wasn’t triggered. so it’s happening outside of hassio.
one observation I did notice, is that I blocked internet access for all my smart devices. the issue seems to happen after I start up the devices (mains ring power off, to on), and the socket has not been able to check in online. In that scnenario, the socket seems to flick off/on every 10 minutes or so. it’s happening with all the sockets I have. I gave them net access as a test, and they have not done it once since…
I am wondering if they added something crappy to the firmware to make it do this, so you HAVE to let them have net access (a requirement I despise).
I can’t say I’ve noticed this. Our internet was totally out for 2 days a few weeks ago and nothing untoward happened with on/off behaviour but then I didn’t also switch off/on the circuit.
It appears to only happen if the power to the ring is off, then you turn it on and the devices start up from powered off. If they can’t get online , they all randomly flick on/off until such time they managed to check in with something.
Once they checked in at least once… things just work.
Just fitted some of these sockets and it seems that Broadlink has removed the option to unlock the sockets from the App. So, what you need to do to get them to work with the Broadlink Integration is to remove the sockets, if you have already added them in the Broadlink app. Put the socket into pairing mode by pressing the left button for 5 seconds until it starts flashing red. Use the app to scan for the sockets. Once it asks you for the Wifi access point and password, enter that, but don’t go any further! Now you can use the Broadlink integration in Home Assistant, enter the IP address of the sockets (you may need to login to your router to find the IP) and your socket will be added as a new entity.
In your router, give your sockets a static IP address, so that if the power goes out or your router is turned off, your sockets will always have the same IP. If the IP changes, they will show as unavailable in HA.
