I would like to replace my telekom smart home with an PI 3+ with open hab 2 installed.
I currently use the Telekom home base 2 with Homematic Doors sensors (HM-Sec-SCo), Wall switch (HM-PB-2-WM552) and some Bithome devices e.g. smoke alarm which are connected by zigbee.
I would like to use the PI mainly as an alarm system
My question is:
Could I replace the home base 2 by an raspain with open hab 2 WITHOUT using an HM CCU2 and could I connect the HM and Zigbee devices directly?
If yes what hardware (Radio-modules?) do i need to add here to the PI?
Yes - I guess it depends on your definition of “gateway” . The dongle is effectively the gateway.
Sorry if you already knew this, but I see quite a few posts where people just expect to be able to connect directly to OH without ANY interface hardware, and your mail looked like that was your understanding…
Yes I know that i need a technical device/usb dongle which will do the radio connect to the zigbee or homematic device​:slightly_smiling_face: But my dream of an perfect solution were that I will be able to connect devices from different vendors to one Rasbian and OpenHAB without the need to buy (and configure)e.g. an HM CCU. But as I understand the last posts, unfortunately for HM there is a need of an dedicated CCU
For Zigbee I have already ordered an USB dongle from Qivicon. Hopefully it will work fine with my Pi 3+ and OpenHAB and of course my zigbee devices/sensors
Okay that means that there is no need of a second PI with OpenHab installed?
Could I use the RPI-RF-MOD and e.g. an Zigbee usb module within one pysical pi?
Thanks a lot.
I have sucessfuly installed both an Zigbee Stick (QIVICON USB ZigBee-Funkstick) and ELV HM-MOD-RPI-PCB (Homematic Radio Interface) with Homegear on one PI 3+
I will describe a bit what I have done, maybe it is usefull for others:
The Qivicon Zigbee Stick will be installed first under Linux (Raspianpi) with an cp210x driver. Please note I have used the latest Openhabian Image (1.4.1) on my PI 3+
Hi
I did try to install the QIVICON USB ZigBee-Funkstick, and did follow your guide.
I did insert the code in the rc.local file and then restart my pi
and after restart the QIVICON USB ZigBee-Funkstick did pop up in things, but when i add the USB if will not og online.
Can you help?
018-10-12 20:52:20.059 [me.event.InboxRemovedEvent] - Discovery Result with UID 'zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65' has been removed.
2018-10-12 20:52:20.126 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65' changed from UNINITIALIZED to INITIALIZING
2018-10-12 20:52:20.221 [me.event.ThingUpdatedEvent] - Thing 'zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65' has been updated.
2018-10-12 20:52:20.306 [me.event.ThingUpdatedEvent] - Thing 'zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65' has been updated.
2018-10-12 20:52:20.389 [me.event.ThingUpdatedEvent] - Thing 'zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65' has been updated.
2018-10-12 20:52:20.395 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65' changed from INITIALIZING to UNKNOWN
2018-10-12 20:52:20.735 [nt.FirmwareStatusInfoEvent] - Firmware status of thing zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65 changed to UNKNOWN.
==> /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log <==
2018-10-12 20:52:21.494 [ERROR] [ding.zigbee.handler.ZigBeeSerialPort] - Serial Error: Port /dev/ttyUSB0 in use.
2018-10-12 20:52:21.496 [ERROR] [ngle.telegesis.ZigBeeDongleTelegesis] - Unable to open Telegesis serial port
==> /var/log/openhab2/events.log <==
2018-10-12 20:52:21.569 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'zigbee:coordinator_telegesis:1200000D65' changed from UNKNOWN to OFFLINE: Failed to initialize ZigBee transport layer
Sometimes I have also problems with the zigbee stick, especially after rebooting the system.
In this case a complete shutdown will help.
To be honest…Not really a solution
algo4711
Thanks a lot for your instructions. I have been trying to install my Qivicon USB Stick for quite a while. In the documentation it just says, that it shoud work!?!
This is the first real instruction I found. Unfortunately the installation still does not work.
The Stick is not found automatically by openhab, like you reported.
Since I do not completely understand linux, I’m not sure why and where I should add the lines to /etc/rc.local
If a type the commands in the console it says
access denied after echo 10c4 89fb > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/cp210x/new_id
It looks like I cannot change the permission to this file
Hi I have added these lines at top of the /etc/rc.local
Please ensure that you have full rights. I will do this by logging in as root (sudo su)
give it a try…
Does it work well via the Qivicon stick, now? Do you use the first version or the current one? Do you experience any restrictions or performance problems with it?
Qivicon stick works fine for me. But I have only one device so far (Osram Smart Plug). I just learned that the qivicon apperently does not support Zigbee 3.0.
I always thought that there are many zigbee devices that can be used with the binding. But is very hard to find zigbee devices. Most manufactures want to sell their own connector and often don’t say if the device is zigbee or not.
. The dongle is effectively the gateway.
