This integration can only read the data from the so called home-protocol. When using the home-protocol the ekey home rs485 sends packets as a underscore delimited string.
1 _ 0046 _ 4 _ 80156809150025 _ 1 _ 2
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
PAKETTYP USER ID FINGER ID SERIENNR FS AKTION RELAIS
For details see ekey home rs 485 manual
- Download the zip file and extract it
- Rename the folder to
ekey_home_rs485 - Move the folder to HomeAssistant
config/custom_components/
- Ensure you configured the "Sender Port" and "Receiver IP address" correctly and the "Protocol type" is set to "home" in the "ekey home converter LAN config" Windows app.
- Ensure other integrations do not already use the configured IP_ADDRESS:PORT combination, E.g. NodeRed might do this. So you have to configure a different port!
This custom integration will add the platform ekey_home_rs485.
sensor:
- platform: ekey_home_rs485
ip_address: <ekey rs485 ip address>
port: 56000 # Default port
user_mapping:
- ekey_user_id: 46 # The ekey user id without the leading zero(s)
ha_username: david # HomeAssistant username/login for mapping
- ekey_user_id: 47
ha_username: maria- Fire an event when data changes. Trigger event even though the same finger was used.
- Add config flow
- Attach the sensor state to the user entity?!
- [-] Autodiscovery would be nice, swipe on device let HA know that there is some sort of fingerprint device available?! Nah, this will not work.