RFLink-ESP in Practice

11 August, 2018

23:11

Components

Now all the individual components are working, we're going to create the first full working system on this page and test how well everything works .

The system consists of:

Domoticz Home Automation (on Windows, the next step is to move it to a Raspberry).
Domoticz Lite, Domotica, DomoFence, FireFox as smartphone apps
Wunderground weather information
ESP32 programmed as an RFLink device
QIAchip as 433 MHz receiver
Doorbell button as the 433 MHz transmitter
Several KaKu controllers and receivers
Several QIAchip (EV1527) controllers and receivers
Several PT2262 controllers and receivers
Doorbell controller and receiver

Action	Serial Terminal
Connect RFLink through an USB connection with a PC. In the future this is planned to be possible from a webpage.
Reboot RFLink either by command or reset button
Enter Learning_Mode=1 And see that no device is yet registered
Press a button on a remote control. We see that the remote control is recognized but not registered
Press X And now the device is registered
OR Press Y And the device will be registered with pseudo random code (so the Home Automation software can determine what will happen if an RF-transmitter key is pressed.
Repeat the last 2 steps for all other controlers that should be handled by Domoticz
After all controllers are registered, connect the RFLink to Domoticz.

Connect the hardware to Domoticz

As the version is shown (not cirrectly, but that's a bug in Domoticz, you know that it's working.

You also can see in the log file, that it's connected::

Apparently there's some continuous handshake between Domoticz and RFLink, because if you hold the reset button of the ESP32 for more than one minute, the following appears in the log file:

Domoticz tests the availability of RFLink by sending on a regular base a Ping command and expecting Pong as an answer.

Action	Screen
Add a KaKu switch (which is already registered in RFLink) to Domoticz. There are several ways but this is the most easy one I found.
Goto the switches tab and press Learn Light/Switch
Press Learn Light/Switch
Now press the KaKu button Then fill in the popup shown on the right
And you switch is implemented in Domoticz.	Screen clipping taken: 15-Aug-18, 9:07

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