I have running Openhab and mostly Homematic devices (33) for years. Homematic, not HomematicIP! I use a NanoCul connect by USB and homegear to my Raspberrys (First Pi3, than Pi5).
The NanoCul is always making trouble. I want an other transceiver which fits to my Pi5. So USB or GPIO Pins connection would be prefered. I dont want to use an additional device such as a CCU or a LAN Gateway.
What is you experience? What are you using, that would fit to my needs (USB/GPIO connection, must work with Pi5, stable and long range, additional SMA or RP-SMA for an external antenna would be cool too).
Hello,
I dont knew anything about homegear. But it exists some boards to connect a raspi with a CCU Software like Raspimatic or Debmatic. The HB-RF-USB-2 and HB-RF-USB-TK via USB and the HB-RF-ETH via Ethernet.
Homegear is a simple software/server interface for different hardware like NanoCul, so software like openhab can connect to homegear and does not care for the hardware at all, as long as it is supported by homegear. But homegear is not the solution I need to have.
Your hardware is hard to find, seems like a underdog solution. I am afraid finding little to none support over the internet. Also using “Openhabian” as operating system, means switching to Raspimatic would be a lot of work. But as this Thread is for collecting different options, I thank you very much for your suggestions. I would like to wait for other suggestions to pick the best one at the end.
I just found “HB-RF-USB-2”, but I think that would work too. But I can’t find the answer, if it fits to the GPIO Pins to RaspberryPi5. Only Pi3 seem supported. Can you surely confirm, that it fits on a Pi5?
