Will a UCM/Pi be able to send out commands to other smart devices?

[palmlodge]

I\'m looking to add the UCM/Pi, and curious if it will be able to send out commands to other smart devices, such as sending an on/off command to an Alexa enabled mains switch?
If so, that would mean my CBUS switches can then control Alexa enabled mains modules, which would be amazing.
Thanks

[wexfordman]

[user=271]palmlodge[/user] wrote:

I\'m looking to add the UCM/Pi, and curious if it will be able to send out commands to other smart devices, such as sending an on/off command to an Alexa enabled mains switch?
If so, that would mean my CBUS switches can then control Alexa enabled mains modules, which would be amazing.
Thanks

The ucmpi, van have openhab or himeassistant running on it. I have comfort controlling a velbus system, and using openhab, I was able to get velbus pushbuttons to control hue lights for example, so I would image it would be very doable.

[mattbrain]

Hi Palmlodge.
If you\'re interested in the UCM/Pi and are prepared to join the beta programme (as wexfordman has), please drop me a note on matt.brain@alphawerk.co.uk and we can go from there.
Thanks,
Matt

[theshepherdmatt]

Hi, 
I have Cbus and Comfort all set up at home running on a raspberry pi using Openhab along with Alexa and various other devices. As long as you have a Raspberry pi running cgate and Openhab you can communicate to Comfort via the Eht03/UCM. I\'ve only just got my Comfort system up and running but already I have it communicating with Openhab via MQTT, the response rate is super fast even when not on the same network.
Please to help if needed 
Cheers
Matt

[mattbrain]

Good to hear Matt.

We have OpenHab and HomeAssistant support running including automatic discovery of objects over MQTT. All this is done on a UCM/Pi which is directly connected and powered by the Comfort system, benefits from a higher baud rate than a standard UCM and has a hardware watchdog to monitor its health.

Happy to show you round if you wish to discuss further,

Thanks,

Matt

[theshepherdmatt]

Cheers Matt,
I\'m just getting my head around comfort at the moment, i luckerly moved into a house 3 years ago that had CBus and Comfort already installed but the previous owner didn\'t know how to use them and they were redundant for around 10 years. So i\'ve had Cbus running on Openhab for a good while, the only time it has crashed is when i\'ve been \'playing\' with it. My kids think its normal now and use it regularly via Alexa etc, I also have a few Hifiberry\'s that are connected to cbus via Openhab so the kids can play music in their rooms using the cbus saturn lights that has been programmed to start a playlist using Openhab and Volumio.
My point is is that i just purchased a Eth03/UCM so i wont be buying anything anytime soon as the wife will go nuts.
Have you created a binding for Openhab?
Cheers
Matt

[mattbrain]

Not a binding as such, but as OpenHab supports HomeAssistant discovery over MQTT, I just created a flow which used it.

Thanks,

Matt

[theshepherdmatt]

How does that work then?

[mattbrain]

It\'s documented here: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/mqtt/discovery/

We have turned this into a Node-Red flow which parses the Comfort Comfiguration file and created the necessary nodes and then populates them with event data as they come in.

[theshepherdmatt]

Ahhh yes node red, i haven\'t got my head around that yet...can you publish commands to comfort such as arming the alarm or only subscribe to in coming messages
cheers