Home Assistant integration for AXA Remote window openers

Introduction

Home Assistant integration to control AXA Remote window openers over the serial interface or serial to network bridges like esp-link.

Features

• Installation/Configuration through Config Flow UI
• Set the close time of your window opener, the open time is derived from this
• Position the window opener on any position along the way

Hardware

If you power the AXA Remote using batteries you can connect the Serial 3.3 or 5 Volts to position 1 or 6 of the RJ25 connector, ground to position 2 or 5 of the RJ25 connector and RX/TX to position 3 or 4.

If you power the AXA Remote with the additional external power adapter you can use a LIN-bus controller to act as a level converter using the following schematic.

Installation

HACS

The recommended way to install this Home Assistant integration is by using HACS. Click the following button to open the integration directly on the HACS integration page.

Or follow these instructions:

• Go to your HACS view in Home Assistant and then to Integrations
• Open the Custom repositories menu
• Add this repository URL to the Custom repositories and select Integration as the Category
• Click Add
• Close the Custom repositories menu
• Select + Explore & download repositories and search for AXA Remote
• Select Download
• Restart Home Assistant

Manually

• Copy the custom_components/axaremote directory of this repository into the config/custom_components/ directory of your Home Assistant installation
• Restart Home Assistant

Adding a new AXA Remote window opener

• After restarting go to Settings then Devices & Services
• Select + Add integration and type in AXA Remote
• Select the serial port or enter the path manually
• Set the close time of your device.
• Select Submit

When your wiring is right a new AXA Remote integration and device will now be added to your Integrations view. If your wiring is not right you will get a Failed to connect error message.

Contributing

If you would like to use this Home Assistant integration in your own language you can provide me with a translation file as found in the custom_components/axaremote/translations directory. Create a pull request (preferred) or issue with the file attached.

More on translating custom integrations can be found here.

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