My Problem with OpenHab

[matt1 (Skinah)]

@Rintano

I planned to make an entry system with e-key, which have a binding too, but where is the garantie that if i invest 2k euro in the ekey system it would work with the binding, and that the binding would be updatet for later use?

I think they are rs485 and work fully locally? If so they should be fine just read this post of what not to buy.

Ekey integration into openHAB3 (as ekey binding is deprecated and won't be available for OH3)

For anybody reading this and planning to buy an ekey fingerprint solution. Do yourself a favour and don‘t buy an ekey Arte fingerprint scanner. The Arte controller cannot send data via RS485 to any kind of CV Lan converter (Net or Home). Therefore a connection to openHAB or any other smarthome solution is not possible.

Also on these locks in general (don’t know if the ekey suffers from it) you should be aware of this issue.

https://youtu.be/XXW27KKHtc8

You could always get a broken system working again by adding a Shelly that uses a relay in it to trip the system or even get a cheap setup connected to openhab in this way.

If you post on this forum asking for help you can usually get a few different ideas on how to achieve a result.