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beojeff wrote:

Until recently, it had been possible to use the Ikea Tradfri light system by pairing the lights with Philips Hue and using the Philips Hue driver. However, it seems that a recent firmware update of the Philips Hue bridge no longer allows pairing the Tradfri lights with Hue. Could you add a driver for us to integral the Ikea Tradfri lights directly with the BLGW?

We will add the Ikea Tradfri to the drivers wishlist. Do you know if there is an open API for their gateway?

JensHauge wrote:

I have a BLGW and have tried to connect my Dahua IP camera's to the BLGW without any success at all. Note the Dahua Ip camareas are connect though an Dahua NVR box. 

1. Does the BLI Support the Dahua IP camera's ?

2. And would there be a difference to the BLGW in terms of Dahua IP camera's support?

3. Does it make a difference if the Dahua Ip camere's are connect though a Dahua NVR box?

4. Aslo, can you integrate the a Dahua doorbell (dahua vto2000a) with BLI?

 

Hi JensHauge,

Neither the BLI nor the BLGW have any special support for Dahua.

Anyway, any camera with JPEG URL (and an optional RTSP/MP4 stream) should work. Sometimes it is difficult to find the correct URLs to make them work.

You can find the URL of some Dahua models at the following URL: https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=Dahua

On page 45 of the BLGW installation manual, you will find instructions of camera configuration with the old gateway's interface.

Please, let us know if you succeed and which URLs you used!

Best,

the Khimo team.-

Khimo Support wrote:

beojeff wrote:

Until recently, it had been possible to use the Ikea Tradfri light system by pairing the lights with Philips Hue and using the Philips Hue driver. However, it seems that a recent firmware update of the Philips Hue bridge no longer allows pairing the Tradfri lights with Hue. Could you add a driver for us to integral the Ikea Tradfri lights directly with the BLGW?

We will add the Ikea Tradfri to the drivers wishlist. Do you know if there is an open API for their gateway?

I came across this site where someone details how to control Tradfri from a Pi:

https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/controlling-ikea-tradfri-lights-from-your-pi 

Hi Khimo Team, I am moving on from my old ML system now to the NL world and alo looking into home automation. 

A solution with a very high market share is eq3 with their homematic IP products (also OEMed to Deutsche Telekom, RWE and Bosch). link

I understand that homematic IP comes with an integration to Conrad connect () which comes with IFTTT support 

Is there any solution to change the default volume of BeoSound 1 from BLGW?

kawo wrote:

... A solution with a very high market share is eq3 with their homematic IP products (also OEMed to Deutsche Telekom, RWE and Bosch). link

I understand that homematic IP comes with an integration to Conrad connect () which comes with IFTTT support link

Would this be a route to integrate to Homematic IP? Or are you considering to add native support?

Hi Kawo

This is the first time we heard about Homematic IP. Currently, making a driver for it is not on the roadmap. Of course, you can request a quote to create the driver, but we couldn't find an open API from them, therefore, they should allow us to use their internal API to create a driver.

With IFTTT, you can do a basic iteration, like activating a scene but you won't get all the power of the BLI and it is not that reliable.

Best,

the Khimo team

 

 

Da wrote:

Is there any solution to change the default volume of BeoSound 1 from BLGW?


Currently, it is not possible to do it from the BLGW or from the BLI. How you plan to use it? Maybe it's something that we can add to the BLI in the future, if there are use cases for it.

 

For the Dahua IP camera's the URL's webpage was the trick for me, thanks a million! Jens

Hi Khimo team! 

maybe there is a bug in the new release. (beolinving v1.1.3) the app is running on a ipad  wall mounted and always on (24/7). 

the beolink system (beosound essence and other rooms beosound moment) are not reachable after a couple of hours. Also the light sliders (Philips hue) does not update the status. 

After restarting the app everything works like it should. (for further 4 or 5 hours) The second ipad (same configuration but with the beoliving app v. 1.1.2) works perfect over days. (beolink gateway v1.5.4.533; ipad ios 13.2.3) – after updating the beoliving app to v.1.1.3 I sign out and login the account as recommended. (fix ip)

thanks beoandy

beoandy wrote:

maybe there is a bug in the new release. (beolinving v1.1.3) the app is running on a ipad  wall mounted and always on (24/7). 

Hello!

Thank for reporting!

We will try to reproduce the error. Please, setup your email account in the iPad that it is having troubles (iOS Mail.app) and if you see this error again, send us the errors from the BeoLiving App itself: Settings -> Alerts -> Send logs.

It is important to have the mailer configured before, if it is not configured you will not see the "Send logs" button in our app.

Best,

The Khimo team.-

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