Digitalstrom: Only devices/lights, no switches available?

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Hi there,

maybe I am missing something or I am having a rather unusual Digitalstrom setup?

I have lights and separate switches for rooms and/or areas.

The problem:
If I power on/off the lights „directly“ using HomeKit with the Digitalstrom binding, I have to push the corresponding room/area switch twice for the light to turn on/off.

I then thought I could control the room/area switches directly. But these are not available as items, only „real“ lights (not switches) and scenes.

Is this true?

Last idea: Am I able to combine area on and off „items“ into one switch to be presented to HomeKit?

How did you solve this?

2

The separate switching devices indeed are not available as things and not controllable. But you can scan for scenes available in your installation to control them. Unfortunately I am not using the scenes so will not be of help.

3

Thank you Hans-Jörg for your feedback.

Just for clarification: The separate switches are also GE (Licht-Klemmen) devices.

I‘ll look into scenes to see if those are of any help. Don’t use them currently.

4

Depends on your installation.
I am controlling just 3 lights but all of my rollershutters with digitalSTROM.
Only one GE device is directly connected to a bulb and a switch.
All other switches are connected to 4 channel Joker devices which then control a certain function or area. So everything is setup as „Bereichstaster“ not „Gerätetaster“.

5

Your Joker devices are listed in openHab? Only GE devices directly associated with a light and scenes presets are listed over here…

6

Joker devices are not discovered, even they are setup to match the color ( GE or GR)

7

I think the problem is I am using GE-TKM230 for my switches. They are not discovered and if added manually as thing they have no channel.

I guess this is only fixable by code/updating the binding, right?

8

Have found a solution, sort of, a few bugs and another “problem”:

The solution (to the above):
Changed my setup from “Room switches” (Raumtaster) to zones (Bereichstaster) and then was able to setup all needed things and items.

The bugs:
While playing around I’ve found a few bugs(?).
When adding a thing (for the digitalstrom binding) manually, I was unable to add the dSID in OpenHAB 2.x but it worked in OpenHAB3 milestone 1.
Also the Zone-IDs and Group-IDs always have to be corrected from x.y to x (i.e. 2.0 -> 2) for all digitalstrom things to become online.

The one problem left:
I’ve added my shutters/blinds to HomeKit but always have to tap twice to make them work (Lights are working as expected).
Controlling the blinds with openHAB works without any problem.

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