Enocean: wireless and battery-free home automation

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Hello everyone,
For some time now I have been interested in home automation and I have tested several software programs and others. I just discovered Gladys and I really like it…
In my opinion, one of the major drawbacks of home automation is sensors that require the use of wires and batteries. The latter have a limited lifespan, various formats and voltages, and not negligible costs.
It is from this observation that I turned to enocean sensors, which have the particularity of producing themselves the energy necessary for their operation and their (wireless) communication with the home automation software.
Of course, to communicate, these sensors use a specific protocol « enocean ». I have browsed the Gladys Assistant website and blog a bit without finding much information on the subject!
Would it be possible to integrate (add) this protocol to Gladys? On other software, this addition is done using a USB key, but I don’t know how it works at the communication level. Some people talk about an enocean-js module, can you tell me more about it?
Thanks for your insight :wink:

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I’m picking up here for « enocean » :wink:

It will be inevitable to integrate this protocol into Gladys, but for now we lack developers with the hardware.
If you are a developer yourself, we will support you, otherwise there is always the possibility of « blind development » and using you as a tester :smiley:

But I am unable to talk to you about scheduling or approximate dates.

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After the holidays, I will look into more detail what this kind of development requires.

For enocean, information will be needed. I think it should be accessible, but I have no idea under what conditions?

For the voice part, there are tools that should meet the needs. I had spotted at least one, I should be able to find it again.

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For my final internship, I had worked on an enOcean (en C++) integration.

And from what I remember, they provide quite a complete library and they have a very responsive support team for the issues encountered.

But I no longer have access to the project’s sources…

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Thanks @Goulby,
Perhaps you have one or more links to provide us?

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Hello and welcome, as I am not an expert, I couldn’t guide you to the right repository, but on Google, by typing enocean nodejs, you find quite a few results.

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Well, there is a lot of information on the enOcean website. However, there are two versions: a trial version and a complete one.

But as I mentioned earlier, the provided library is C++ oriented.

As for the usage: manual

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Thanks @Goulby,
I had spotted the enocean website, but English isn’t natural for me, so long live the web and its translation services :wink: