Jontem / hassio-plejd

Hass.io add-on for Plejd home automation devices

Hass.io Plejd add-on

Hass.io add-on for Plejd home automation devices. Gives you the ability to control the Plejd home automation devices through Home Assistant. It uses MQTT to communicate with Home Assistant and supports auto discovery of the devices in range.

It also supports notifications so that changed made in the Plejd app are propagated to Home Assistant.

Thanks to ha-plejd for inspiration.

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Plejd and am solely doing this as a hobby project.

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Getting started

To get started, make sure that the following requirements are met:

Requirements

• A Bluetooth device (BLE), for eg. the built-in device in Raspberry Pi 4.
• An MQTT broker (the Mosquitto Hass.io add-on works perfectly well).

Tested on

The add-on has been tested on the following platforms:

• Mac OS Catalina 10.15.1 with Node v. 13.2.0
• Raspberry Pi 4 with Hass.io

Tested Plejd devices

• DIM-01
• DIM-02
• LED-10
• CTR-01
• REL-01
• REL-02

Easy Installation

Browse to your Home Assistant installation in a web browser and click on Hass.io in the navigation bar to the left.

• Open the Home Assistant web console and click Hass.io in the menu on the left side.
• Click on Add-on Store in the top navigation bar of that page.
• Paste the URL to this repo https://github.com/icanos/hassio-plejd.git in the Add new repository by URL field and hit Add.
• Scroll down and you should find a Plejd add-on that can be installed. Open that and install.
• Enjoy!

Manual Installation

Browse your Hass.io installation using a tool that allows you to manage files, for eg. SMB or an SFTP client etc.

• Open the /addon directory
• Create a new folder named hassio-plejd
• Copy all files from this repository into that newly created one.
• Open the Home Assistant web console and click Hass.io in the menu on the left side.
• Click on Add-on Store in the top navigation bar of that page.
• Click on the refresh button in the upper right corner.
• A new Local Add-on should appear named Plejd. Open that and install.
• Enjoy!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Startup error message

When starting the add-on, the log displays this message:

parse error: Expected string key before ':' at line 1, column 4
[08:56:24] ERROR: Unknown HTTP error occured

However, the add-on still works as expected and this is something I'm looking into, but not with that much effort yet though.

Running the Plejd add-on outside of HassOS

If you're planning on running this add-on outside of HassOS, you might need to turn off AppArmor in the config.json file. This is due to missing AppArmor configuration that is performed in HassOS (if you've manually done it, ignore this).

Open the config.json file and locate host_dbus, after that line, insert: "apparmor": "no", and then restart the add-on.

More information about available parameters can be found here: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/hassio_addon_config.html

Configuration

You need to add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

mqtt:
  broker: [point to your broker IP eg. 'mqtt://localhost']
  username: [username of mqtt broker]
  password: !secret mqtt_password
  discovery: true
  discovery_prefix: homeassistant
  birth_message: 
    topic: 'hass/status'
    payload: 'online'
  will_message: 
    topic: 'hass/status'
    payload: 'offline'

The above is used to notify the add-on when Home Assistant has started successfully and let the add-on send the discovery response (containing all devices).

The plugin needs you to configure some settings before working. You find these on the Add-on page after you've installed it.

Parameter	Value
site	Name of your Plejd site, the name is displayed in the Plejd app (top bar).
username	Username of your Plejd account, this is used to fetch the crypto key and devices from the Plejd API.
password	Password of your Plejd account, this is used to fetch the crypto key and devices from the Plejd API.
mqttBroker	URL of the MQTT Broker, eg. mqtt://localhost
mqttUsername	Username of the MQTT broker
mqttPassword	Password of the MQTT broker
includeRoomsAsLights	Adds all rooms as lights, making it possible to turn on/off lights by room instead. Setting this to false will ignore all rooms. Added in v. 5.
connectionTimeout	Number of seconds to wait when scanning and connecting. Might need to be tweaked on platforms other than RPi 4. Defaults to: 2 seconds.

I want voice control!

With the Google Home integration in Home Assistant, you can get voice control for your Plejd lights right away, check this out for more information: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/

I don't want voice, I want HomeKit!

Check this out for more information on how you can get your Plejd lights controlled using HomeKit: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit/

Changelog

v 0.3.4:

• NEW: connectionTimeout configuration parameter to enable tweaking of wait time on connection, usable for RPi 3B+.
• FIX: Reworked some logging to get better understanding of what happens.

v 0.3.0:

• NEW: New BLE manager, DBus instead of noble
• FIX: Adding entities as devices now as well
• FIX: Bug fixes

v 0.2.8:

• FIX: Reset characteristic state on disconnect

v 0.2.7:

• FIX: Added exception handling to unsubscribing lastData characteristic if already disconnected

v 0.2.6:

• FIX: Added null check to remove listeners for characteristics

v 0.2.5:

• FIX: Invalid scene id in events/scene message

v 0.2.4:

• Stability improvements

v 0.2.3:

• FIX: Container build error fix

v 0.2.2:

• Stability improvements

v 0.2.1:

• Stability improvements

v 0.2.0:

• Stability improvements
• Bugfixes

v 0.1.1:

• FIX: Fixed missing reference on startup, preventing add-on from starting

v 0.1.0:

• NEW: Rewrote the BLE integration for more stability
• FIX: discovery wasn't always sent

previous:

• FIX: bug preventing add-on from building
• NEW: Added support for Plejd devices with multiple outputs (such as DIM-02)

License

Copyright 2019 Marcus Westin <[e-mail]>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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