Feature: Add support for Door/window Contact

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Feature: Add support for Door/window Contact

ceee5 opened this issue a year ago · comments

Hi,

Firstly thanks for providing this application to allow me to use our Heatmiser installation alongside Home Assistant.

We have the Heatmiser Door/Window sensor paired with our neonultra.

Whilst I can see the entity appear, it doesn't appear to recognise any change in state, ie when the door is opened - albeit the Heatmiser application recognises it and turns off the heat call whilst activated.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

Jon

MindrustUK · Answer 1 · Tue Aug 29 2023 20:37:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Don't think you've missed anything. These are likely not handled correctly, I'll order a sensor and do some investigation into adding support. I've got an outstanding ticket to pickup around adding temperature sensor support too but I've been struggling for time to complete it.

Watch this space for updates.

M.

ceee5 · Answer 2 · Wed Aug 30 2023 17:06:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Please let me know if I can help in anyway.
Many thanks

MindrustUK · Answer 3 · Thu Aug 31 2023 18:59:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Got the sensors through, I've added them as my setup and they suffer the same limitation of #121

I Need to revisit neohubapi 1.1 and figure out why this is breaking for some users.

We can then add the devices using "DEVICE_TYPE" and "TIMECLOCK_MODE" to get them into the right class; switches, sensors, thermostats, time clocks etc.

These should then appear as binary sensors, not switches. NB: don't forget to add some sort of "LOW_BATTERY" support as an entity or sensor.

MindrustUK · Answer 4 · Wed Nov 22 2023 18:05:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Support for Wireless Air Sensors and Wireless Contact Sensors have been added to: https://github.com/MindrustUK/Heatmiser-for-home-assistant/tree/dev please test and provide feedback.

ceee5 · Answer 5 · Fri Nov 24 2023 22:52:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the update

I have followed the instructions to install the dev branch to test this new feature, however the Wireless Contact Sensor still reports as a switch and doesn't change state when activated.

I wonder if the dev branch is installed correctly? Is there a way of checking - I can't see anything obvious.

Many thanks
Jon

MindrustUK · Answer 6 · Fri Nov 24 2023 22:57:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Did you restart home-assistant after installing? The big clue will be that things look quite a bit different if it's loaded correctly.

ceee5 · Answer 7 · Fri Nov 24 2023 23:33:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the clue! It hadn't loaded!
For some reason when pasting the script into ssh it was inserting a random ~, hence the script errored.
I'll let you know how the contact switch works!
Thanks again

ceee5 · Answer 8 · Tue Dec 05 2023 02:44:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Basic checks all looks good with this feature request, thanks @MindrustUK

Now for an automation to play a recording of "Shut the Door" on repeat when the kids go out to play in the snow and leave the door open!

MindrustUK · Answer 9 · Tue Dec 05 2023 18:25:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Great, thanks for the update @ceee5 I'll close this feature complete.