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addon, sensor, component ? #1

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uzelac opened this issue May 22, 2019 · 2 comments
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addon, sensor, component ? #1

uzelac opened this issue May 22, 2019 · 2 comments

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@uzelac
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uzelac commented May 22, 2019

First, great work, connecting dynalite to home automation app as hass.io is one of things on my bucket list.
I'm really satisfied with Dynalite, and extremly unsatisfied with Philips (signify ??)

In regard to connection, i'm having trouble figuring what is best way, addon or sensor.

After few hours of fighting, i managed to install dynalite addon, the one you call "MQTT gateway for PhilipsDynalite" and it worked! Kind of Eureka moment! 👍

To make it work I had to tweak it a bit (insert arch description) fix areas/presets, bit of hassle with MQTT but as soon as all was configured OK it worked.
Lights would show up in hass.io after i use them on regular keypads, pretty great, all showed up.

Now you've updated this sensor version and I made it work. No seperate MQTT, so bit easier.

Still, would like to know what is the difference between addon and sensor ?
Why is one better than other, if.

Thank you very much, looking forward for you to implement channels 👍

@troykelly
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Hi @uzelac

I feel your frustration with Philips - they've given up on Dynalite it seems (or maybe they don't even know they own it?)

I haven't maintained the addon for a long time - I'm only really maintaining this component, which in itself is sort of a fake sensor to be a bridge between the 485 Dynalite world and MQTT.

The addon would introduce a little additional server load that can be avoided by staying "in the Home Assistant ecosystem" with this component.

Did you get this component working, or are you still using the addon?

@uzelac
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uzelac commented May 23, 2019

Not sure if they have given up, to be honest I think they are still on it, lots of new devices emerged in past 1-2 years. They changed name to Signify, maybe they plan some big restart ? :)
Problem is they are business/commercial oriented, hotels and business buildings, they never cared for residential and that should be root of our problem. I had contacts with few Dynalite distributors, and to be 100% fair they all said "Philips never offered this to residential, god forbid "end users"....

In regard to my installation, i got component to work, yes, works great. Peace of cake with your latest read.me.
I'm still new to hass.io / home assistant so I don't know itch about dashboards/lovelace/cards etc. but hope to get to it :). Next step is some nice dashboard, but it all seems perfectly doable.
It was important for me to find automation which includes Dynalite, all my lights and some appliances are wired on it, and it works so good on it own. But inability to make it work with some other stuff was painfull.... Thanks to you, finally there is one and now I can be more determined to make it work.

Would be great to have channels, that is all that is important and left to integrate.
Dynalite works lights so nice, all else (relays, inputs..) I see myself replacing, but keypads and light control are best.
Maybe some kind of connection to DUS sensors, they are not that expensive but are pretty capable: IR receiver, light metering and motion sensor.. and they look good after all :).
Joins, Tasks and connection to DDTC (Timeclock device) doesnt make sense with Home Assistant, HA is so much more capable.

Once again, thank you so much.
Not sure how much time and knowledge it took from you, for me this is insanely complicated, and seeing someone done it makes me very happy. There is no better software I could hope for in this cruel digital world :).
Whatever I can do to help...

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