control Velux skylights with HS3 and RFXCOM?

[ScottRennie]

Eman - That is brilliant - thank you. I'll have a look at that this weekend; hopefully, I'll manage to build something.

Cheers
Scott

[Eman]

Cheers Eman - that looks interesting. Where can I find detailed instructions on how to install and set up MQTT? There is a lot of threads but not a lot of information.

There are other ways of running an MQTT server but the no nonsense way of having an all in one (Node-RED and MQTT) is to start here : https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi but also if you want the whole 9 yards then go for ioBrorker on a raspberry PI and inside it you will find the Node-RED adapter which will provide you with a lot of nodes including the one I mentioned earlier but also the all wonderful MQTT Broker Node Now all now you need is either of the two MQTT plugins in HomeSeer!
ioBroker has a Node-RED node as illustrated here #10 by which makes it super cool to send data to mqtt.

Note : If you are just starting with mqtt, let stuff communicate locally with user name and password. Anything else is beyond the scope of this post and / or do some research.


Eman.

[ScottRennie]

Cheers Eman - that looks interesting. Where can I find detailed instructions on how to install and set up MQTT? There is a lot of threads but not a lot of information.

[Eman]

I would like to know as well. Any feedback on the KLF200 would be appreciated

https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-velux then use the MQTT plugins in HomeSeer to talk to them.




Eman.

[ScottRennie]

Horse,

Any luck in controlling your Velux products via HS3? I am looking at buying some Velux skywindows and would like to control them via HS3. What worked for you?

I would like to know as well. Any feedback on the KLF200 would be appreciated

[jameseoconnor]

Horse,

Any luck in controlling your Velux products via HS3? I am looking at buying some Velux skywindows and would like to control them via HS3. What worked for you?

[langenet]

Thanks for this. This looks very interesting..

[Horse]

I know this is a very old thread, however I came across an announcement that Velux have released an API for the KLF 200 io-homecontrol gateway
The klf-200 allows "dry contact" , web and now an API control of io-homecontrol enabled Velux windows and blinds, in addition others have successfully registered Somfy products as well as they use the same io-homecontrol protocol.

I'm including a link to the Velux page for the API which seems to be very well documented and supported (111 pages). Just not very well advertised :-)

Currently I'm going to be installing a number of Velux products in a new house and am using the Arduino plugin and a signal relay board to control the klf 200 via dry contact. A plugin to HS3 that uses this API over IP would allow for scenes and status.

I'm no coder, and am going to look into doing some simple Python scripts on a web server to do basic scenes, as I'm not sure were to start with the HS3 plugin framework. Are there any guides?

[mhn]

Last I heard Velux used "their own" IO Homecontrol protocol.

Regards
Morten

[sparkman]

Al, I found this old thread, probably concerning an earlier model. Does it change your thinking?

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...ighlight=velux

Could you expand on why you mean "interfacing to the KLF100 using something that can provide dry contacts..." I'm not following you there. Just my limited knowledge...

Thanks, Ricky

Hi Ricky, that thread refers to an IR remote. IR is also not supported by RFXCom. I searched for the FCC number associated with the devices you had linked to. From what I can see they operate in the 2.4GHz band, potentially with a proprietary protocol. The KLF 100 appears to be designed to allow 3rd party HA systems to interface to their system. Based on the manual, it looks like it supports one or more dry-contact inputs. Dry contact inputs allow you to interface other electronics to it that close a contact and therefore signal the other device to take some action.

Cheers
Al

[Ricky]

Looks like the Velux remotes are in the 2.4 gig band so the RFXCom transceivers won't be able to control in that case: https://fccid.net/number.php?fcc=XSG833429&id=708925. You should be able to interface to the KLF 100 using something that can provide dry contacts (Mimolite, Relay, Arduino, etc.).

Cheers
Al

Al, I found this old thread, probably concerning an earlier model. Does it change your thinking?

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...ighlight=velux

Could you expand on why you mean "interfacing to the KLF100 using something that can provide dry contacts..." I'm not following you there. Just my limited knowledge...

Thanks, Ricky

[langenet]

I've got one of those skylights as well. I'm hoping to control it with my new neeo when I get it sometime this month...

Rob

[sparkman]

Looks like the Velux remotes are in the 2.4 gig band so the RFXCom transceivers won't be able to control in that case: https://fccid.net/number.php?fcc=XSG833429&id=708925. You should be able to interface to the KLF 100 using something that can provide dry contacts (Mimolite, Relay, Arduino, etc.).

Cheers
Al

[Ricky]

I wonder if it is possible to control Velux skylights with HS3 and RFXCOM? Has anybody done this?


http://skylights.veluxusa.com/consum...ctric_controls

http://velux.skylightblindshop.com/b...t-klf-100.html