Auto discovery (433MHz KAKU) device types

Theengs OpenMQTTGateway Radio frequencies gateways 315mhz, 433mhz, 868mhz
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Reading the code, and getting my first experiences with OpenMQTTGateway in Home Assistant, it seems any KAKU (RF2) device discovered is automatically discovered and added as a switch device.

I’m figuring out how these could be configured to be of different types and I have some working templates ready (light, cover).

No I’m trying to figure out what would be the most user friendly method to differentiate these types or allow a user to select the preferred type.

Two options I’ve come up with:

  1. some sort of pre-configuration (based on device ID’s) in the firmware
  2. a separate tool/interface to make the configurations

The first seems really user unfriendly. The second might be a little better, but then the question is where/home to implement it.

I’m hoping someone might have some thoughts to share on this.

Looking forward to your suggestions.

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For anyone interested in my progress, I’ve uploaded my PoC to Github:

This script:

  • reads OMG configs from MQTT
  • uses a defined mapping to apply some templates (yaml)
  • merges this with the specified configuration.yaml from HASS

Exmaple to call the script:

  • Update the paths
  • Update the mappings
  • Execute: ./OmgHelper.py > core/config/configuration.yaml.new
  • Compare the old and new config and overwrite if it looks good