Connecting Vorwerk Kobold VR200 to openHAB2

Interesting!

I’m confused about the jar file: @fatman42285 is a public download of the jar available? Ideally a GitHub repository? What about this one? You can always upload new bindings to the Eclipse IoT Marketplace
Did you consider adding your binding as an official openHAB binding?

@fatman42285 would you mind to post a download link for your binding? if not, would you send me a direct message with a link?

Hi bsteinert,

unzip the file from attachment and copy/move it to the addons directory.

have fin
Bernd

I’m sorry, but unfortunately i don’t see an attachment. :frowning:

Hi bsteinert

please send me your email adress, i will share the file on icloud.

Bernd

Maybe somebody else is searching for the modified vorwerk .jar file. I have attached the link to it.

fatman42285, vorwerk-file:

Hi, can somebody help? I have inserted my Vorwerk-Credentials but got a “Not allowed” in the Event-Log.

2018-02-26 23:39:28.036 [INFO ] [b.binding.neato.handler.NeatoHandler] - {"message":"Not allowed"}

2018-02-26 23:39:28.040 [INFO ] [b.binding.neato.handler.NeatoHandler] - Authentication Response: {"message":"Not allowed"}

Are you sure your credentials are right? Test it with the original Vorwerk app.

OMG I’m so sorry. Layer8 Problem :slight_smile:
The Vorwerk Account is an other PW than the App Account. Now it works. Thank you!

Hello all,

tried to connect my VR200 using the modified binding described above. Auto discovery does not work. To add the thing manually is possible but then after setting the robot supplier to Vorwerk the thing configuration screen (PaperUI, see below) requires 2 more values instead of none as described above before the thing can be added:

  1. Serial, is this the serial number of the machine?

  2. Secret_key, how can i get this?

Are serial and secret required or not? Every input leads to a response that the adress is wrong?

Also recognized that the http:// adress for the Vorwerk cloud server which is implemented in the binding is different to the one i see if i activate the Vorwerk skill in Amazon Alexa. There it is beehive.ksecosys.com instead of nucleo.ksecosys.com/...as within the binding. Is this model/firmware dependent or might i have an old version of the binding? Use openHAB2.4.0, build #1346 under Windows10.

Does this binding actually work out for anybody? Appreciate every hint.

Thanks,

Willi

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Thanks for this setup. It’s working perfect for me. I’ve gont one question. How can i implement all states to the openhab panel? do i need a special widget?

again thanks and have a nice day

Hey,

thanks for all. But i have the Problem that the Cleaner is not going online… it stands only on offline!
How can i fix that?

Best regards

@fatman42285 @Giga522 Hello Bernd & Jan! Is there an updated version of the vorwerk binding that will work with OH2.4?

I really do not know it if it will work with 2.4. I am still using 2.3 without a problem. But when I have more time and @fatman42285 is not interested anymore in updating the app for Vorwerk, i will try to update the neato app, if nobody else is doing it :wink:.

You can proceed like every other Item. Nothing special here.

Thank you for your help with this! Should we add the changes to the original binding and bring them to the main repo? Because the the binding is under active maintainance, that should fix issues longterm… (if not neato/vorwerk will change something that the api is not comaptible any more)

Yeah you are right. Maybe we send them the vorwerk file that they officially support it in the future.
I do not think that they have to change too much to support it. If you know how to contact them could you do it?

i have opened an issue at github.

EDIT:
our issue is fixed. In the next openhab version we do not have to use the modded version anymore!

when you are still interested:

@Giga522 you may take a look at my implementation here:
https://github.com/Pavion/openhab2-addons/releases/tag/2.4.0.NEATO.1 (diff)
This is a fork of the current Neato Binding with added vendor option. Unlike the old version (origin here afaik), now the account Thing (with vendor supplied) has to be added first. Available vacuum cleaners should then be discovered automatically. Cleaner Thing UID should stay the same, allowing for old Items to be kept.
I’m running a long time test now, keep me posted if you’re willing to test (no guarantees though :slight_smile:)

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@Pavion
Thank you very much!
Really nice Christmas gift!
Will it be in the near future included in the normal neato binding or will it be separated?