Ubiquiti Unifi Binding Feature Discussion

[havaak (User1389239239)]

Keep up the good work!

[mgbowman (Matthew)]

@mgbowman

I have it on my agenda to get my dev env back up and running but it’s going to take some time with the whole “code shuffling” that’s been going on in master.

Well I managed to make some progress on just getting things “up to date” as it has been quite a while since I’ve done any development:

1. My repo and binding branches are up to date with master
2. Have a fresh “functional” IDE so I can start developing again
3. Updated my Jenkins build server to properly build the latest codebase

I spent around 4 hours just doing the above.

Need to take care of a few more urgent things around the house and then I’ll have more free time in the evenings for the binding.

Will keep you all posted.

Matthew

[papaPhiL (Philipp Fink)]

I think this binding is super! Thanks for continue to work on that.
I just spend 10min finding this issue:
2019-09-18 21:23:25.982 [DEBUG] [i.internal.api.model.UniFiController] - Could not find a matching client for id = 172. 6.5.12
and I propose to make this a warning, not a debug

The feature I would want to ask for is.

• auto discovery (where the mac address is the thing-id)

Keep up the awesome work and congratz to the new place!

[mgbowman (Matthew)]

@papaPhiL

Keep up the awesome work and congratz to the new place!

Thanks, it’s finally nice to have a place of my own!

Now on to the progress of the binding…

So @lexusburn got me motivated with a PR, to start development again and I’ve managed to implement LED toggling at the site level. Eventually once hardware devices like APs and Switches are added to the binding, you should be able to toggle the LEDs on a per-device basis.

Before I push my latest code, I want to ask how many are running at least 2.5.0.M2+ ???

Since the code reshuffling in master has taken place, I 99.99% sure the binding is no longer 2.4 compatible

If there’s enough of you “living on the edge”, I will push my code for testing.

Cheers!

Matthew

[hilbrand (Hilbrand Bouwkamp)]

@mgbowman

Since the code reshuffling in master has taken place, I 99.99% sure the binding is no longer 2.4 compatible

I don’t see changes that would make it incompatible. It depends on gson, which would need to be installed separately in a 2.4 installation. But you can work around it by including the gson jar in a lib folder specifically in a jar for 2.4.

[wborn (Wouter Born)]

There may be issues when using 2.5.0 add-ons on 2.4.0 because the XML namespaces changed from ESH to OH.

See:

Manual Daikin Binding 2.5.0 installation not working on 2.4.0

Hi There, I’m trying to install the 2.5 Daikin Binding using OH 2.4. When placing the jar in /usr/share/openhab2/addons nothing happens. Not even an error message. Any suggestions?

[roy_liao (roy)]

I’m on 2.5M3

LED toggling would be awesome! Any chance to change the LEDs to white? I’m doing this now by pushing SSH scripts with rules, so it’s clunky, but works. Of course, this isn’t a big deal either way, would just be a cool thing to have.

[hakan (Hakan Tandogan)]

@mgbowman

Before I push my latest code, I want to ask how many are running at least 2.5.0.M2+ ???

“Productive”: M3

Test installations: latest beztezt nightly builds

both dockerified of course.

[mgbowman (Matthew)]

@papaPhiL

@papaPhiL

I just spend 10min finding this issue:
2019-09-18 21:23:25.982 [DEBUG] [i.internal.api.model.UniFiController] - Could not find a matching client for id = 172. 6.5.12
and I propose to make this a warning, not a debug

If this was a warning, any time a client was not online nor found in the “historical” insights data, this message would spam the log every refresh interval - hence the reason it’s a debug

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@roy_liao

@roy_liao

Any chance to change the LEDs to white? I’m doing this now by pushing SSH scripts with rules, so it’s clunky, but works.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to here. The new led channel toggles this in the controller:

I’ve never seen anything about turning them white.

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I will spin up a fresh 2.4 and try the binding and report back. Either way, I’ll update the docs later today and push the new builds for fresh testing.

Next on my list is adding AP devices. What channels would you like to see?

• totalClients
• wirelessClients
• wiredClients (not sure if this is possible but I’ll look into it)
• guestClients
• led

As usual, will update you all once the builds are up.

Happy Friday!

Matthew

[roy_liao (roy)]

@mgbowman

I’ve never seen anything about turning them white.

ah, sorry, I wrote the rule so long ago I forgot it was a hack, instead of something supported in the Unifi Controller. I was thinking the controller had an option to change to white colors. Basically, this is it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/8plxpo/change_ap_ac_lite_led_color_to_white/

The hack requires SSHing into each access point, so definitely outside the scope of the binding.

[marcel_erkel]

@papaPhiL

2019-09-18 21:23:25.982 [DEBUG] [i.internal.api.model.UniFiController] - Could not find a matching client for id = 172. 6.5.12

There’s a space in the ip address between 172. and 6. I don’t know how the matching is done, but if it just compares 172.6.5.12 with 172. 6.5.12 then they will not match.

[jwiseman (Mr. Wiseman (OH 4.2 Snapshot on Pi4))]

@mgbowman

binding is no longer 2.4 compatible

I’m running OH 2.4 with this version of the binding which I think you made it work for 2.4 by removing some code.

Been working flawlessly with a local controller and a controller across the Internet.

openhab> list -s | grep unifi
198 │ Active   │  80 │ 2.5.0.201903071727     │ org.openhab.binding.unifi

Best, Jay

[jwiseman (Mr. Wiseman (OH 4.2 Snapshot on Pi4))]

@mgbowman

What channels would you like to see

My functional request would be the following:

• WiFi experience level (0 - 100%) on a device - channel needed
• Send a “Reconnect” command on a device - channel needed

I have 79 WiFi devices and 3 AP at home and I find that those that fall below 49% on WiFi levels - I can select Reconnect and the client’s WiFi experience (9x out of 10) will increase above 50%.

I would like to automate this a bit hence the request.

Best, Jay

[mgbowman (Matthew)]

@jwiseman

Send a “Reconnect” command on a device - channel needed

This is already supported by the latest version of the binding that I’ve published!

See Wireless Client Channels

As far as the “WiFi experience level”, I’ll have to look through the controller UI and see exactly where this is coming from. Will report back!

[papaPhiL (Philipp Fink)]

Hi Marcel, yes, thanks! But the device was not there at all, i changed the IP a while back ago.

I wanted to add this because it was a log statement on “DEBUG” level and I would have fixed that way sooner/earlier if it would be a WARNING.

[papaPhiL (Philipp Fink)]

As you might take requests, I have a similar Issue with my Devices. I have a DoorBird that sometimes freezes. I would be able to detect that to power cycle it, as soon as your binding supports power cycling a PoE Port Switch

[Irresisti (Danny Nijpels)]

I keep getting these offline messages, what could be wrong?

2019-10-17 14:00:42.379 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'unifi:controller:home' changed from ONLINE to OFFLINE (COMMUNICATION_ERROR): Error communicating with the UniFi controller
2019-10-17 14:00:42.381 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'unifi:wirelessClient:home:DuangchaisPhone' changed from ONLINE to OFFLINE (BRIDGE_OFFLINE)
2019-10-17 14:00:42.387 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'unifi:wirelessClient:home:DannyPhone' changed from ONLINE to OFFLINE (BRIDGE_OFFLINE)
2019-10-17 14:01:12.779 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'unifi:controller:home' changed from OFFLINE (COMMUNICATION_ERROR): Error communicating with the UniFi controller to ONLINE

[papaPhiL (Philipp Fink)]

We just had a discussion about turning off WIFI at night to safe us from the dooming electro smog. If we would be able to use the switch-profile-override from within the binding, we could realize a “sleeping-mode” that would turn of the PoE-access points .

if the API does not allow that, maybe turning off the wifi bands within the access points itself is an option?

[MDAR (Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)]

Hi

@mhilbush

Download the jar file from here , and then put it in your openHAB addons directory.

I just tried to download the jar file from the link you provided, but it isn’t available.

Is it possible to share a new link please?

Many thanks,

Stuart

****** Update ******

My apologies, I think I’ve found a more appropriate link

@Dim

Download the latest *.jar file from: https://jenkins.otr.mx/job/openhab2-unifi-binding/
Place it in your $OPENHAB_RUNTIME/addons folder (in Linux apt: /usr/share/openhab2/addons/ )
Use discovery in PaperUI or manually define your things and items (see this thread for example configs)

edit: forgot the link to the UniFi Binding Readme for config info

[mhilbush (Mark)]

@MDAR

I just tried to download the jar file

What version of openHAB are you running? The binding has been part of the distribution for a while now.

Edit: It was added to the distribution in December 2018.