@Multimax do you send initial states for all children for this multi relay node? HA won't show anything that hasn't sent initial data to show.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mysensors/#presentation
Thanks for the response. Can you be more specific about how to request the status from the node?
My understanding is the request format is:
request (Child_ID, VariableType);
But if the Home Assistant entity that I want to request the status of is not a MySensors entity it will not have a Child_ID. So how do I format the request statement?
Please read carefully documentation for HA. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mysensors/
You need to send initial state of your sensors. There is example code for doing it. Basically you check in loop if the node just started and send some values to HA. After that your sensor will appear in HA.
Hello,
finally, ... I had time to test the "Option 2".
Because the stock of all shops are empty, I used my old RPI 3 B+. But after all, the CPU runs at 50%. Even the 1 GB ram is half free.
The way wasn't as easy as I thought. But now the setup runs pretty good.
This steps I had to make:
A fresh install of Raspian Lite (I used 64-Bit, if this is needed? I dont know)
Installed "Home Assistant Supervised", which runs in a docker. (I found a tutorial based on this informations: https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer)
Installed the MySensors Gateway with some changes! (https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry)
3b. The manual works fine for 32 Bit raspbian. For 64 Bit you have to edit two files bevor the compile starts. (https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/11456/is-mysensors-rpi-gw-32bit-only/8)
In my case i have to change the section for the BCM2837 (= RPI3) as described in the post.
Now, I have a clean setup for my smarthome with MySensors Nodes and Zigbee Nodes.
The RFM69 ist directly connected to the GPIO of the PI.
The power consumption is araound 2 W. Somewhat lower when idle.
