$149 AUD per processor · Version 0.37 · 120-minute free trial · RTI XP processors
Two-way RTI control of HomeSeer HS3 / HS4 lights, locks, fans, thermostats, sensors and events - local, no cloud.
Two-way RTI control of a HomeSeer HS3, HS4 or HS4 Pro system, including HomeTroller and eHomeSeer hardware, straight over HomeSeer's local JSON API - nothing to install on the HomeSeer side and no cloud account. Dimmers, switches, locks, fans, thermostats, sensors and binary sensors each get their own command and feedback tags, and every HomeSeer event can be run from a button. Discover HomeSeer Devices and Discover HomeSeer Events read HomeSeer from Integration Designer and fill in the slots; re-running them keeps everything in the slot it already had. On HS4 the driver can take instant push updates from HomeSeer, and it always polls as well. Each device can be added to a room as its own source, and every device reports HomeSeer's own status wording, its value, when it last changed and the state it left. Includes instructions, an integration note and a sample project.
Features
- First HomeSeer driver for RTI - HS3, HS4, HS4 Pro, HomeTroller and eHomeSeer
- Direct local control over HomeSeer's own API - nothing installed on HomeSeer, no cloud
- Dimmers with 0-100 level sliders, switches, locks, fans and thermostat setpoints
- Sensors and binary sensors (motion, contact, water, temperature, humidity, power)
- Run any HomeSeer event from a button, by picker or by name
- Discover HomeSeer Devices and Events fill in every slot from Integration Designer
- Re-running Discover keeps devices and events in their slots, so wired buttons keep working
- Add each HomeSeer device to a room as its own source
- Instant push feedback on HS4, with polling as a safety net (and on HS3)
- Every device reports its status, value, when it last changed and the state it left
- Warns when HomeSeer reuses a device reference, and when new devices or events appear
- 120-minute free trial; licence is per RTI processor
Introduction
Controls a HomeSeer HS3, HS4 or HS4 Pro system - including HomeTroller and eHomeSeer hardware - from RTI over the local network. Dimmers, switches, locks, fans, thermostats, sensors and HomeSeer events, all with two-way feedback.
Nothing is installed on the HomeSeer side and no cloud account is involved. The driver talks directly to HomeSeer's local JSON API.
HomeSeer Technologies makes the HomeSeer home automation software and the HomeTroller controllers it runs on. This driver is written and supported by Smart Home Programming and Automation.
Important Note
Test HomeSeer Connection and the two Discover commands run inside Integration Designer, on your PC. Nothing you configure is live until you download the project to the processor. If discovery worked but the system seems dead, the download is almost always what is missing.
Use HomeSeer Root Device Names renames every device, and tags are built from device names. Decide on it before you start wiring buttons.
Driver Features
- Dimmers, switches, locks, fans, thermostats, sensors and binary sensors, each with its own command and feedback tags.
- Up to 48 dimmers, 64 switches, 12 locks, 12 fans, 8 thermostats, 64 sensors, 96 binary sensors and 120 HomeSeer events.
- Design-time discovery: Discover HomeSeer Devices and Discover HomeSeer Events read HomeSeer and fill in the slots. Re-running them keeps existing devices and events in the slots they already had.
- Each device can be added to a room as its own source.
- Feedback: on HS4 the driver can receive instant push updates (webhook). It also polls HomeSeer for changes every 3 seconds by default (Poll Interval), so feedback works on HS3 and keeps working if push stops.
- Every device reports Status (HomeSeer's own wording), Raw Value, Last Changed and Previous state.
- Run any HomeSeer event by slot, or by group and name as plain text.
- Control Ref By Value and Control Ref By Label for devices that do not fit a slot type, such as alarm panels.
- Checks that each slot's device reference still points at the device it was mapped to, and warns if HomeSeer reused a reference.
- Notices devices and events added in HomeSeer (every 15 minutes by default) and tells you to run Discover.
- Telnet debug console and optional remote logging for support.
Cloud services: none are needed to run the driver. If you switch on Remote Logging (off by default), the driver sends its log lines over HTTPS to shpdrivers.services, run by Smart Home Programming and Automation, so we can help with support. If that server cannot be reached, logging simply stops; control and feedback are not affected.
Supported Devices
- HomeSeer HS4 and HS4 Pro. Tested on a live HS4 4.2.23.0 system with 201 devices and 114 events.
- HomeSeer HS3. Supported through polling (HS3 has no webhook). Not yet tested on a real HS3 system.
- HomeTroller and eHomeSeer controllers, which run HS3 or HS4.
System Requirements & Prerequisites
- Integration Designer - 11.4 or above
- RTI processor - XP-8 class (XP-3 / XP-6 / XP-6s / XP-8 / XP-8s / XP-8v)
- Processor script runtime - 24 or above
Limitations
- HS3 has no webhook, so feedback on HS3 arrives at the Poll Interval rather than instantly.
- A device or event added in HomeSeer is not mapped to a slot until you run Discover in Integration Designer and download.
- HomeSeer events report no enabled or disabled state, so the driver cannot show it.
- If HomeSeer fails while listing its events (for example because one event refers to a device that no longer exists), Discover cannot fill event slots until the HomeSeer fault is fixed. Run Event By Name still works.
- Use HomeSeer Root Device Names changes device names, which unbinds buttons wired to the old tag names.
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