Plugwise USB/Stick custom_component (BETA)

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Help wanted

⛔🚩 As a team we have been unable to maintain communications with the main tester and developer for the USB legacy devices. If you want to help us maintain the USB code by joining (or reaching out to @brefra) contact us through this issue. 🚩⛔

About

A fully asynchronous approach to supporting Plugwise devices in Home-Assistant. This repository is meant for use of beta-testing. As of March 2021 we include testing against latest dev in Home-Assistant Core, the above batches should indicate compatibility and compliance.

Always first attempt to use the native Home Assistant-component using this button

(at this moment this beta is required to use the USB/Stick functionality as Plugwise USB support is not available in Home Assistant Core yet)

If you don't mind a bug now and then and are interested in helping us test new features and improvements, you can start using this BETA custom_component. We develop and maintain both versions.

Required python module (status)

Our python-plugwise-usb python module accompanies both the native and the custom_component. It's status is is:

Changelog

Our Changelog is available as a separate file in addition to our commit-history.

Usage

What do we support (in short)?

• Power-related
  • Stick (legacy Circle's, Stealth's and Scan's)

USB notes

Up to spring of 2023 the custom_component plugwise-beta plugwise-beta supported both Networked and USB Plugwise products, as of that time we have split both the backend (python module) and the frontend into separate instances as per recent discussion with the Core team. The plugwise integration in HA Core (and therefore plugwise-beta) will remain supporting networked Plugwise products under an envisioned plugwise_bv Brand umbrella. This paves the way for this repository as upcoming plugwise_usb-beta custom_integration to being refactored and again upstream to HA Core (which was originally planned but there was no branding umbrella in Core back then).

As such we ask USB users, who are tied in with the custom_component as there is no Core integration available yet, for a little patience so we can split and refactor all repositories without loss of functionality for the end users. For our USB users that will however mean some breaking changes or customizing under the hood as the custom_component name will change and the appropriate naming in HA will do so accordingly. It is for the best though as this will ensure a way forward to HA Core integration, which has been our goal since starting to write Plugwise supporting code for Home Assistant.

What can I expect in HA Core from this component

• binary_sensor and sensor: A number of sensoric values depending on your hardware: Plug's and Circle/Stealth's power-values.
• switch: The switch-parts of Plugs/Circles are available as switches, also switching them on/off is supported.

How to install?

• Use HACS
• Navigate to the Integrations page and use the three-dots icon on the top right to add a custom repository.
• Use the link to this page as the URL and select 'Integrations' as the category.
• Look for Plugwise USB/Stick beta in Integrations and install it!

How to add the integration to HA Core

If you are using the USB stick:

• Hit the + button in the right lower corner

• Search or browse for 'Plugwise USB' and click it

• Select or enter the USB-path

• Click SUBMIT and FINISH

The config flow will then continue to ask you if you want to put your Smile and detected other devices in area's and presto, things should be available to configure in lovelace.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

I don't like the name of the sensor or the icon

You can adjust these in Configuration, Integration -> Entities (e.g. https://{Your HA address}/config/entities)

Just click on the device and adjust accordingly!

Please note that you can also click the cogwheel right top corner to rename all entities of a device at once.

It doesn't work

If you notice issues please create an issue in the appropriate repository, while we are on Discord and on the Community forums this is not where we are actively checking for support requests.

• plugwise_usb-beta - the beta custom_component for HA Core we use for testing (also required for USB as Plugwise USB support is not available in Home Assistant Core yet).
• python-plugwise-usb - the python module interfacing with the plugwise Smile or USB-stick

Is it tested?

Disclaimer: Not yet (fully)

While we try to make sure that everything works as intended, we can't really test out changes happening to hardware devices. Our testing is done through testing against files from community members (see python-plugwise-usb tests) and if you have a setup you are willing to share we highly welcome that. Just send us the files or submit a PR. Including your test code into the tests/test_Smile.py code is highly recommended.

Ensuring our commits work scripts/core-testing.sh will create a local clone of the Home Assistant Core dev-branch to test against. For full visibility of tests run this as DEBUG=1 scripts/core-testing.sh (or export DEBUG to something other than none). pytest will show full log by default when tests are failing.

Results of our tests are checked by GitHub Actions against Home Assistant (dev-branch), click the button 'Test with HA-core' in this repository or the 'Latest release'/'Latest commit' buttons on our python-plugwise-usb repository.

There is Plugwise / used to be Anna support in HA Core already?

The former 'anna' support was replaced by the new Plugwise component, based on this beta-version.

From the original sources by @laetificat it was improved upon and upstreamed by @CoMPaTech for Anna. Right after that @bouwew joined to improve and help maintain the code - as a result also Adam and P1 became supported. As of 2020 @brefra joined for the USB part(s) so we have a full range of Plugwise products supported.

As things like async were in high demand from HA Core, desired by the original author and a great challenge for us we rewrote it largely. The Plugwise Beta repository (accompanying the Plugwise python module) is intended for development purposes, just as anna-ha was for haanna (respectively the original before upstreaming and original python module). Note that 'Plugwise-Smile' existed for a while before @brefra joined.

With the three combined forces we now support, maintain and improve on:

• plugwise-beta (the network devices repository) for beta-testing new features to go into the Core plugwise-integration for HA
• python-plugwise for connecting to Networked Plugwise products
• plugwise_usb-beta (this repository) for beta-testing new features to eventually go upstream to Core into the plugwise_usb-integration for HA
• python-plugwise-usb for connecting to Plugwise products via USB
• progress showing what are the differences between HA-core and the network custom_component on our progress page (marked as todo for this repo as well)

And yes anna-ha with haanna (to some degree) support Anna v1.8 - but they don't support Adam nor the Smile P1.