Dear community,
Like I suspect many others do, I became a member today as I cannot find an answer to my question. Naturally, I hope that this will be solved so that others one day will benefit from your help.
In a nutshell:
I have an audio system from Bang & Olufsen that is not supported by an official binding today. In order to integrate it I purchased a Beolink Gateway (BLGW) a while back (basically a home automation hub in itself) and initially tried to create dummy switches and expose them to the BLGW through the Philips Hue emulator.
The BLGW would then sense states/changes and fire rules and macros which, in turn, interacts with the music system.
Regrettably, this did not work to well, I could get the BLGW to link to the Emulator but only real things (lamps/switches) were reacted upon.
I have since read that the BLGW supports TCP as well as IFTTT. As I do not wish to rely on IFTTT I was hoping that there would be someone here that can help me configure my OpenHAB 2.5.8 (RPi 3) to connect with the BLGW through this protocol. I have very little experience here, so any help is very welcome.
There are two documents that I think is relevant to this topic, one can be found at:
See page 6 section 3.2
The other one at:
See page 24
If you have made it this far, thank you in advance for your help.
MDAR
(Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)
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Thank you for your reply, MDAR.
It might help, although I have to be honest and say that Barjonas’ comment did not leave a lot for me to extrapolate from. The Beocreate is a Raspberry Pi making some older speakers “Smart”, so quite possibly something that I can use.
Did the post that you linked to tell you more than it did me?
MDAR
(Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)
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Hi
It was the reference to WebSockets that peeked my curiosity.
I’ve just discovered WebSockets with Node-RED & QLCplus, so I wondered if you could use something similar.
If… Bajonas would be kind enough to share the exact WebSockets URL. (Or you can find it somewhere else??)
Sorry for absence, I am in the middle of moving and have not spent a lot of time focusing on home automation of late. Your mention of Node-RED helped me find a solution to my problem. I have yet to look into QLCplus, but simply using the TCP nodes and the BeoLink Gateway’s HIP (Home Integration Protocol) has proven enough. However, if I did not have a BLGW the WebSockets would have been the next step.
Now, my focus will be to better understand Node-RED and JavaScript in order to automate authentication between Node-Red and BLGW at startup/reboot/network loss. Other than that, TV and music can now start or stop from rules within OpenHAB (which I will probably migrate to Node-RED when I am finished moving, to be honest).
Thank you for your nudge in the right direction!
