I am absolutely new to the community. I set up an raspberry pi 4b 4GB with openhab 3.3.0.
Now i would like to use the free@home binding because I have this System in my house.
Using putty on my Windows 10 PC i downloaded the “org.openhab.binding.freeathomesystem-3.4.0-SNAPSHOT.jar” file in my addon folder using the command:
cd /usr/share/openhab/addons
sudo wget “https://github.com/andrasU/openhab-free-home-binding/blob/main/org.openhab.binding.freeathomesystem-3.4.0-SNAPSHOT.jar”
The file seems to be very new just 3 days old. But I wasn’t able to download the 3.3.0 version from kjoglums because I could not make it work with the provided link via putty. And since I am on a Windows PC I wasn’t able to transfer the file without putty. Can anybody provide a Link ending with .jar?
Anyways. If I restart openhab I can not add the bridge in things. Absolutely nothing happend.
Has anybody any Idea. I would love to use the binding.
Thanks in advance and sorry for the maybe very basic problem.
The version you are referring to, the @UhA version of the binding, is based on REST API, and I have no clue if/how the binding works.
For the other version, it can be downloaded as described under link. Since you are running RPi, you could easily set up samba share, and put the jar file into the openhab/addons folder.
Thanks Samba was the key. I was able to install your binding from the Link.
For anybody who might encounter a similar problem:
I followed the instructions from the following Link.
But I wasnt able to access the addons direcotry (/usr/share/openhab/addons).
Solution here was to add the “Netzwerklaufwerk” “\192.168.x.xxx\openHAB-addons”
With user .\openhabian
pw: openhabian
Then i just copied the file from the link above. Worked like a charm.
I also checked the directory via putty and now the binding file was in green color.
When I was adding the other binding via putty it was in red colored writing.
Thanks
I do not want to hijack this thread. But this is true I made an other version of f the free@home binding and I am using this binding since some weeks without any problem.
This binding is based on the REST API for setting values and Event Socket communication is used for status updates. This current version is complete re-design of the first my binding which I developed because I cannot make working the binding from @kjoglums on my Raspberry. (sorry… but it was maybe my fault )
The usage of the current version is very simple, it needs only configuration of the SysAP (gateway) the further devices and channels are detected automatically, no user interaction or any additional configuration is needed.
The automatic detection is based on the REST API available function ID and pairing ID information. Due to this the binding can adapt itself and able to detect and control new/unknown devices.
Further on the binding is not splitting the multi-channel free@home devices into multiple but single channel Things, this means a 4xChannel actuator will be kept as one multi-channel Thing. For this it is important to give a name to the channels on the free@home dashboard, because it is used for the openHAB representation.
Introduce new Input/Output (Sensor/Actuator) functionalities is very simple, it just needed to define on which channel, and which “idp/odp” are used for the communication.
I made my test based on my free@home system and based on some shared configuration file.
If somebody would like to have a binary to test, to try it, I am happily sharing my current binary build.
In case of any question, or request to implement a new feature please contact me, the best would be in private message.
and again… I did not wanted to hijack this thread.
Hi everybody, hi Stian!
I use the Binding and everything works fine so far.
Now I have a new project: Use the Free@Home API to create a Virtual Device in Free@Home - a “EnergyInverterMeterBattery”. First step worked fine.
Then I try to pass all values from my Fronius-inverter to that Device, as described here via Openhab (Fronius-Binding show all values) and Nodered (via openhab2-get2-nodes and http request). Goal is to show all those values on my Free@home-7-panel in the living room. I was able to reach that goal partly.
The problem is, that it seems, that Free@Home does not create or use or pass all necessary Datapoints (e.g. for power consumption live or aggregated) - or I cannot use Nodered correctly…
Now I want to test, if I can create the “EnergyInverterMeterBattery” directly also in Openhab using your binding, maybe the passing of the values is more easy, when I stay in Openhab and do not have to go via nodered.
The Device “EnergyInverterMeterBattery” is not discovered by the Free@home-Binding. And Manually, as far as I understand, it is only possible to create all the things listed in the Binding (e.g. “raffstore”, “dummy”, “weather” etc). What about other Virtual Devices, like “EnergyInverterMeterBattery” (or others listed here: [F@H IP-Adress] /swagger/fhapi). Is there a trick to achieve a Thing named “EnergyInverterMeterBattery”, where you can cover the serial number and different Channels and ODP to adress the different values?
Using the Snapshot-Version 3.3.0.
Sorry for the long description, I hope I described my problem understandable. Thank you for reading…!
The only virtual device currently supported by the binding is virtual switches. However, even these devices have limited functionality, as the ABB/Busch-Jäger team has changed the behavior of these devices as part of the latest FW upgrades, i.e. the devices do not report status updates over local websocket when included in scenes etc, and it is thus not possible to get a successful interaction between OH and SysAp.
Also, this version of the binding does not support local API (which seems to be a prerequisite for your goal), as it is based on XMPP over local websocket.
Update: I successfully integrated not only my Solar-Inverter but also 3rd-Party-Sensors (Netatmo) for Humdity, CO2, Temp etc. (and all values which I gather thanks to OH) as Virtual Machines in Free@Home.
If you´re interested, I combined a “How-To” for the 3rd - Party - Sensors here.
Hi
I upgraded to FW version 3.1.2 recently and from that time my connection between openhab and sysapp doesnt work. It looks there is some problem to access local API. I still didnt figure out.
I dont know how to downgrade that firmward without any demage so it is very difficult to confirm.
I just tried to use virtual F@home Switches in free@home scenes - I see then, can set and save them into Scenes, but when the scene is triggered the virtual switches do nothing - is that bug still unsolved ? F@h 3.1.2 Openhab 3.4.3 Binding 3.3.0 (seems that’s still the latest?) .
Edit: I tried Devices set
up with virtualDeviceEmulation and set up without, outside of
the scene those switches work perfectly, but seem to not work in a scene.
Any ideas ?
Edit2: Adding virtualDeviceEmulation in the backup file, reloading the backup into the AP was not enough - restarting the F@h SystemAP then made it work!
The binding is installed and it works for existing things in Openhab 4.0 M2, but I’m not able to add new things. The binding is not listed any more in the “add thing menu”
I have also been successfully running F@H binding version 3.3 under OH 4.0M2 (Sysap FW 3.1.2), although without being required to make changes to existing setup, thus being unaware of the issue pointed out by @ML1982, so thanks for bringing it up.
Have made a new compilation of the binding, under 4.0 development environment, and the new version compiles successfully without errors, but still unable to find binding under “add thing”. org.openhab.binding.freeathome-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
See others have reported similar issues for manual installs of bindings, so need to investigate further.
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