node-red-contrib-deconz

Node-Red deCONZ

Node-Red Nodes for deCONZ connectivity.

The new 2.0 beta version is out

Hi it's @Zehir here, I worked hard for months on a complete rework of this plugin. There is a ton of new features, it's will be easier to do stuff on node-red. If you have any issue with this beta version, feel free to open issues on GitHub.

This new version requires Node-Red version 2.0 or newer. (It's could work with lasted 1.X version of Node-Red).

Some new features (Changelog):

• Multiple device selection
• Select device using queries
• Multiple commands at once
• Query multiple devices and merge the result
• Many more to come

If you want to try the beta version you can install it from npm using the dev tag but you should backup your flow and be able to restore your flow if anything goes wrong.

As the current beta.8 everything should keep working after the update. The migration should be seamless, if it's not the case for you please open an issue.

Legacy version

The last version of the "legacy" version will by 1.3.3. This version was originally created by @Andreypopov, he mentioned that he stopped development. Dennis the Community Manager of deCONZ asked him to transfer the repository so we can advance on it later. Please bear with us.

Available nodes are:

• deconz-in: A node to subscribe to deCONZ devices
• deconz-get: get state of device or group
• deconz-out: send data to device or group
• deconz-battery: get battery status of device
• deconz-event: get all deconz events

Home Assistant

Do not forget to open ports:

Watch YouTube video

Changelog

Migrate from 1.3.4

Make sure you backup your flow before updating, you will not be able to downgrade if the configuration is migrated.

Everything should be seamless, all your configurations will be migrated to the new save format. It will save the updated configuration only when you open the node configuration and click Deploy. If you are not performing it, the node will migrate the configuration on each start of Node-Red. Check the Node-Red log if you have any errors that shows up. If you have any issues you may visit the deCONZ-Community Discord server or open an issue on Github.

Added

• The nodes now allow multiple device selection.
• The nodes accept queries instead of a device list.
• Each outputs of the nodes are now customizable. If you don't need the HomeKit output, just remove it.
• Reworked the Auto configuration of server. It looks for Home-Assistant installations as well.

Input and Battey nodes

• New output types
  • Attribute - Contains all information about the device, include State and Config.
  • Config - Contains configuration data.
  • Scene Call - Called when a scene is called.
• New properties on messages
  • payload_format - The name of the value or complete if the selected payload is "Complete payload".
  • payload_type - The option selected in the output type.
  • meta_changed - List of param path that changed since last message. Exemple : "state.lastupdated".
• Connection preview, you can press the top right button of each output rule to see what nodes are connected.
• Start output is now configurable for each type. To avoid fake button events you should disable it for switch devices.

Get node

• New output types
  • Attribute
  • Config
• New output formats
  • Single - The node will send a message per device that sends data.
  • Array - The node will send a message with all payload inside an array. The message will contain a payload that is an array of single message. E.g. msg.payload[0].payload is the payload of the first device. Each element will contain only the properties payload, meta, meta_changed. The properties topic, payload_format, payload_raw will be on the msg directly.
  • Sum - All properties of the devices will be added individually.
  • Average - All properties of the devices will be added recursively and then divided by the number of devices that have that property.
  • Min - The result will be a set with the minimal value of each property.
  • Max - The result will be a set with the maximal value of each property.

Output node

• New command types
  • Windows Cover - For easier comprehension of commands.
  • Custom command - For thoses tricky things that don't fit in a deCONZ state command.
    • Target - Set where you wan't to send data. Can be 'attribute', 'state' or 'config'.
    • Command - Set the option name. Can be object if the payload contains an object with keys and values.
    • Payload - Set the value.
  • Pause - Add delay between 2 commands.
• Added output to see the result of the api request.
• All options can be set in one command. You can now set brightness and color in a single step.
• Multiple commands can be added and executed one by one.
• Command preview, you can press the top right button of each command to run it instantly.

Event node

• New message property meta is associated to the event with the device configuration.
• Now displays the event count since the last deploy.

This big update was brought to you by @Zehir