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Rfbridge with OMG. How to start?

Gateways Sonoff RF Bridge (SRFB)
#1

Whats going on here?

  • faulty flashing ?

  • newbIE issue ? (very probable)

I flashed my sonoff rf bridge r2 v1 with rfbridge-firmware.bin OMG 0.9.3, using flashESP8266.

Sonoff frbridge earlier flash with Tasmota 8.2 worked ok, but after seeing DrZze video I wanted to give a try OMG.

I nearly gave when OMG didn’t want to connect to my router. At last I got connected. To my big surprise I could see OMG integrated with HA.

[Album] Imgur

Why I cannot see any messages in mqttlens ?

Rfbridge reacts with red blinking when I press for ex. Sonoff’s remote.

What do might be a cause, please help.

#2

Hi,

Did you changed the switch position after flashing?

#3

Thank you.
Yes, I think I did. I’m checking it and now I can see that in switch position Off OpenMQTTGateway cannot connect to my router. I’ve switched it back to ON and I got connection visible also on HAssistant front panel. Unfortunately, still no response on MTTLens
I’m going reprogram my rfbridg and this time first erasing the flash memory. I will report how it worked.

#4
  • Flash memory erased
  • ESPeasy flasher \frbridge-firmware.bin
  • switch to On
  • as before difficulties with connecting to AP, but at last connection !!
  • OpenMQTTGateway succesfully connects to Home Assisstant - binary_sensor.openmqttgateway_srfb
  • rfbridge reacts to keys on my Sonoff remote.
  • MQTTfx showes messages from other devices in my network, but no msg from frbridge, as shown in my earlier post.
    Somehow data is not flowing as it should.
    Regards,
#5

Something new happens. In Home Assisstant:
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Nothing in MqTTlens.
How to use data showed at 1:35 and received after I pressed on key on the remote?
Is this enough information to use in my automatisation?
May be I don’t need MqTTlens?

from https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/04/29/release-109/
" There is now MQTT debug information on the device page of an MQTT device, awesome work @emontnemery!"

#6

If you see values appearing in home assistant it should be enough for triggering your automations.

An MQTT client like MQTT Lens or MQTT explorer is mainly used for debugging.

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