Testers for Verisure openHAB 2 binding

tnemrap · July 13, 2016, 9:21pm

Will it be possible to lock the door (doorman) with this binding?

/mike

stein_tore_tosse · September 2, 2016, 1:39pm

At the moment I don’t think this binding will be possible to use. I’ve set up a script that pulls data from the Verisure API to get the temperatures and alarm status of my home.
After a couple of weeks I got this e-mail:

We have discovered that someone with your user credentials generates a high
amount of data traffic.
We really appreciate that you enjoy our system, and that you integrated it
with yours, but the current setup do not support the feature to
retrieve/send information from “My Pages”, and to build your own
applications.
On 2016-07-19 there were 2 812 requests per 24 hours. Our acceptance level
> for calls towards “My Pages” is 1 call per 30 minutes. At this level we
will not limit the access, for now. Please adjust your application
accordingly. We reserve the right to “throttle”/lock out users that
generates to much load that interfere with our systems.

So this acceptance level of 1 call per 30 minutes makes any effort of making a binding useless, at the moment.

LDW · October 24, 2016, 8:37am

Hi

I am currently looking for a domotica system. I am a total newbie so if I seem to ask stupid questions, this might be due to my very limited knowledge so far

A first question I have if it is possible to integrate Open HAB with Loxone hardware as I am thinking to use Loxone as the backbone of my Domotica. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any relevant information on that topic on the internet.

A second question fully relates to this topic. I have an extensive Verisure installation at home with several motion detectors, magnet contacts and fire alerters. However, I ask myself if there is a walkthrough for newbies on how to integrate this system to Open Hab. I tried to understand this topic but it is somehow like understanding Chinese unfurtunately at the moment

If I understand it correctly, it should be possible to integrate the Verisure system to Open Hab but in a way that it pulls data no more then one time in each 30 minutes. You told that this might be not frequently enough but receiving data 1 time each 30 minutes to me does not seem to be a problem, right?

stein_tore_tosse · November 11, 2016, 6:40am

Hi,

I do not have any answer to your first questions, but about “integrating” with verisure I’m currently using the following:
This is only tested on OpenHAB 1 so far, but I’m in the process of migrating to OpenHAB2, I think it’ll work there as weel

NodeJS Verisure alaram-api to pull information from my verisure system, you have to set this up on your server so that the nodejs-command works from inside your Openhab-folder for example (nodejs ./configurations/scripts/alarm.js)
I’ve created some items that pulls the information from Verisure once an hour or so, this is basically for the temperature sensors, you can look at these items on my Github
There are some rules to parse the JSON from the Verisure-API as well as handling me leaving the house and coming home, there are located here

To make my house go into HOME or AWAY mode faster than hourly I’ve created a couple of extra adjustments:

If the house is in AWAY-mode but the motion sensor in my hallway i triggered, I pull the alarm-api to check if the alarm has been switched off, this is done here
I have a small arduino connected to a Versiure Smart Plug. The only thing this arduino does is to connect to the wireless network. The smart plug is switched OFF when the alarm is switched ON, and vice versa.
So when the Arduino looses network connections, I pull the Verisure alarm-API to check if the alarm has been switched on.

There are still some additions I would like to do, like these:

Lock the door when going to night mode
Check if the door is locked (you can get this info by adjusting the verisure-api.js

Hope this helps you to get started!

LDW · November 12, 2016, 9:07pm

Dear Stein

Thank you for your very helpful reply, I will take your advice into account and will contact you again in case if I have further questions, which might happen probably

Most important is that you succeeded well to add your verisure system to your domotica and that it seems to work pretty well, which I didn’t expect honestly as I thought that the verisure system would be very closed because it is a security device actually…

Kind regards
Lode

Thomas70 · November 22, 2016, 9:53am

I dont know if this helps, but i turned on mail notification on my Doorman and using ifttt to scan my gmail account. Then sets locked/unlocked status in OH2. I cant control the lock, but status is updated in less than a minutte.

jarlebh · November 23, 2016, 1:12pm

I have built and fixed some issues with this binding, it is now hardcoded to a 10 minutes refresh rate.
This is good enough for me since I don’t use it for “coming home” detection.

If you like to test:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26815772/org.openhab.binding.verisure-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
GitHub

Xellvas · November 27, 2016, 8:19am

Just got a system installed and was exited when i found this thread, but im not sure what to input as Auth string in the config?

jarlebh · November 28, 2016, 7:55am

You should get the auth string from your browser when you login to myverisure. It is basically the username and password.
You use the developer tools in chrome and then you look at the https://mypages.verisure.com/j_spring_security_check request. In this you will find something like this in the content:
j_username=XXXX&j_password=YYYY. this is what you should use in the auth string,

stein_tore_tosse · November 28, 2016, 8:31am

Thanks.
I’ll test this and give my feedback.

Have you built the jar-file som it can be downloaded directly?
Is there any documentation?

jarlebh · November 29, 2016, 9:31am

See the post above for jar file. Also see the github link for a simple readme.

Xellvas · November 30, 2016, 7:30am

Thanks! That did it, seems to be working well. Thanks

stein_tore_tosse · November 30, 2016, 7:31am

Thanks, just installing it.

Do you have any details on how to configure it using files instead of the paperui?

jarlebh · November 30, 2016, 7:43am

For the Bridge just add a verisure.things file to the things folder.
Content should be something like:
Bridge verisure:bridge:myverisure “Verisure Bridge” [authstring="", refresh=“600”, pin=“XXXXXX”]
The refresh and pin is optional.

stein_tore_tosse · December 1, 2016, 5:37pm

I’ve started using the binding, but wish you could give me some examples on how to define the things in the thing-file. Currently done the following:

verisure.things:

Bridge verisure:bridge:myverisure "Verisure Bridge" [authstring="{{alarm_authString}}", refresh="3600"]

alarm.items:

String alarm_current_status {channel="verisure:bridge:myverisure:status"}
Number alarm_current_status_number {channel="verisure:bridge:myverisure:statusnumeric"}
String alarm_current_status_no {channel="verisure:bridge:myverisure:alarmstatuslocalized"}
String alarm_changed_by {channel="verisure:bridge:myverisure:changername"}
DateTime alarm_time_changed {channel="verisure:bridge:myverisure:timestamp"}

When restarting the server I got the following errors:

2016-12-01 18:31:37.681 [ERROR] [risure.handler.VerisureBridgeHandler] - Supposed to handle a commandREFRESH
2016-12-01 18:31:37.683 [ERROR] [risure.handler.VerisureBridgeHandler] - Supposed to handle a commandREFRESH
2016-12-01 18:31:37.684 [ERROR] [risure.handler.VerisureBridgeHandler] - Supposed to handle a commandREFRESH
2016-12-01 18:31:37.685 [ERROR] [risure.handler.VerisureBridgeHandler] - Supposed to handle a commandREFRESH
2016-12-01 18:31:37.686 [ERROR] [risure.handler.VerisureBridgeHandler] - Supposed to handle a commandREFRESH

also alarm_time_changed and alarm_current_status_no both show the value of null.

jarlebh · December 2, 2016, 12:36pm

I guess {{alarm_authString}} is replaced with the actual values ?
You should see the things in the Inbox in PaperUI, then all you need to do is add them.
That we normally create the items, but you can also do it manually as you have done, however the channels would be different. I don’t have any of these in my items file.

Jarle

Jakob_jensen · December 3, 2016, 3:57pm

Hi I have installed it and im able to add my lock.

But my lock keeps state INITIALIZING

is there any ides how to solved this?

stein_tore_tosse · December 4, 2016, 12:48pm

I’m getting the following error in my logs. Also having the same issue as @Jakob_jensen mentioned. The lock only says “Intializing”

    2016-12-01 10:30:08.646 [ERROR] [ng.verisure.internal.VerisureSession] - Failed in updatestatus
com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1 path $
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:822)[12:com.google.gson:2.3.1]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:775)[12:com.google.gson:2.3.1]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:724)[12:com.google.gson:2.3.1]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:696)[12:com.google.gson:2.3.1]
        at org.openhab.binding.verisure.internal.VerisureSession.updateAlarmStatus(VerisureSession.java:171)[219:org.openhab.binding.verisure:2.0.0.201611290738]
        at org.openhab.binding.verisure.internal.VerisureSession.updateStatus(VerisureSession.java:60)[219:org.openhab.binding.verisure:2.0.0.201611290738]
        at org.openhab.binding.verisure.internal.VerisureSession.refresh(VerisureSession.java:355)[219:org.openhab.binding.verisure:2.0.0.201611290738]
        at org.openhab.binding.verisure.handler.VerisureBridgeHandler$1.run(VerisureBridgeHandler.java:57)[219:org.openhab.binding.verisure:2.0.0.201611290738]
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)[:1.8.0_111]
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308)[:1.8.0_111]
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)[:1.8.0_111]
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294)[:1.8.0_111]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)[:1.8.0_111]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)[:1.8.0_111]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)[:1.8.0_111]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1 path $
        at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.beginArray(JsonReader.java:350)[12:com.google.gson:2.3.1]
        at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ArrayTypeAdapter.read(ArrayTypeAdapter.java:70)[12:com.google.gson:2.3.1]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:810)[12:com.google.gson:2.3.1]
        ... 14 more

jarlebh · December 4, 2016, 1:08pm

Is the binding you downloaded from 29.11 ? if not try to download again.

stein_tore_tosse · December 4, 2016, 1:24pm

Yes it is the latest binding you have shared here