Adapter failing to pair?

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#1

I’ve been trying to edit the gpio-adapter code into an adapter that reads mqtt messages sent by the rtl_433 tool. So rtl_433 will publish JSON messages onto an mqtt topic, and my addon will subscribe to that topic.

But I seem to be doing something wrong. I pushed my WIP code to https://github.com/jgrgt/rtl-433-adapter It’s quite crappy at the moment due to me trying all kinds of things to get it to work.

Also, right now I ‘test’ by coding straight on my raspberry pi and restarting the gateway after every edit. This is flawed in multiple ways (not a lot of useful logging, no debugging possible) so I’m looking for a better way?

Another question: how do I reset my gateway’s things (including logs) to ‘empty’? Right now I need to disable the addon, re-enable it and remove the thing using sqlite3…

Any help is appreciated.

#2

What hardware does this connect to?

The gpio adapter doesn’t really pair. It just adds pins that are configured. When you hit + in the UI to initiate pairing it will present any devices that that adapter has advertised that aren’t currently in the DB.

I normally do my development on the PC. This works really well for any type of USB dongle.

You also don’t need to restart the gateway. You can disbale and re-enable the addon (in settings->Addons). This will cause the addon to be reloaded. I now add runtime configurable debug. The zwave and zigbee adapters have this.

#3

I created a PR: https://github.com/jgrgt/rtl-433-adapter/pull/1 which gets the adapter into a working state.

The biggest problem was that the TemperatureProperty needs units, minimum and maximum.

I also fleshed out the mqtt client portion and set things up so you could have multiple properties, each one subscribed to a different topic.

#4

@dhylands Thanks a lot! I merged your PR and gave I’m indeed getting temperatures in the UI now, which was not happening before.

Now it’s time to investigate some of the configurability options…