[Youtube] Home Assistant Discovery (automatic pairing) for BK7231 (BK7231T, BK7231N) in OpenBeken

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#1 27 Jan 2023 11:19

Here's a short video guide showing the automatic Home Assistant Discovery process for BK7231 (T and N), BL602, W800/W801, W600/W601 and XR809 devices in OpenBeken firmware. Automatic Discovery allows you to easily pair your device with Home Assistant, without having to write any YAML code. Everything is done with one button click and your device just shows up in Home Assistant, alongside with all it's relays, LED controls (if available) and sensors (for example, DHT temperature/humidity sensor or BL0942 power metering sensor.

Tutorial assumes that you have already OpenBeken installed. If not, please watch our "how to change firmware" videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@elektrodacom
Remember to visit OBK supported devices list and home page:
https://openbekeniot.github.io/webapp/devicesList.html
https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. We're here to help you get your devices running 100% local and cloud-free!

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#2 01 May 2023 20:28

2023-05-01 update
Today OpenBeken Home Assistant Discovery system has been improved. Starting from today, the advanced channel types will get discovered by HA as well. This will help with some of TuyaMCU devices (but not all of them).

Starting from today, if you do in autoexec.bat:
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setChannelType 1 Toggle setChannelType 2 Toggle setChannelType 3 Toggle setChannelType 4 Toggle

it will get correctly Discovered.

Same goes for TuyaMCU config like:
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setChannelType 1 Humidity setChannelType 2 Temperature_div10

this will also be seen by HA.

NOTE: the "_div10" suffix is needed for TuyaMCU, because TuyaMCU encodes temperature like 25.5°C as 255... it's sent as integer.

I am creating multiplatform open source firmware (Tasmota replacement), right now supporting BK7231T, BK7231N, XR809, BL602, W800, W600 and soon supporting RTL and W701:
https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T
If you like my work, support me at: https://paypal.me/openshwprojects
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#3 20 May 2023 21:13

2023-05-20 reminder
Remember that you can set channel labels:
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setChannelLabel 1 Test123

and they will get to HA as well:

Please refer to the documentation for more information:
https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App/blob/main/docs/README.md

I am creating multiplatform open source firmware (Tasmota replacement), right now supporting BK7231T, BK7231N, XR809, BL602, W800, W600 and soon supporting RTL and W701:
https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T
If you like my work, support me at: https://paypal.me/openshwprojects
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