Home Assistant: as a bridge, or to move out.
What already lives in Home Assistant comes into Lenou without wiring it twice. And whoever wants to, moves out of it calmly.
What it is
Many houses already have a Home Assistant, with years of work in it. Lenou does not throw that away. It can use Home Assistant as a bridge, and it can — when you want — move out of it calmly, while Home Assistant keeps running.
As a bridge
Home Assistant
Over Home Assistant's websocket, with a token. Every change comes through at once.
- Reads and controls
- Lights, switches, shutters, climate, locks, media players and fans; temperature, humidity, power and energy; door and motion sensors.
- One device from many
- A device only Home Assistant reaches — a heat pump whose gateway allows just one connection — becomes one device in Lenou with its own values, instead of twenty loose sensors.
- Rooms
- Come along from Home Assistant.
The move
A house that lives in Home Assistant can come straight onto KNX and Modbus in Lenou, with its history. Lenou reads a copy of the configuration and makes a plan of it: which devices, which rooms, which energy roles, and what each automation does.
Everything starts read-only: Lenou follows the bus and the meters, and writes nothing. Automations are not quietly taken over — two controllers on one relay work against each other. The report says per automation which part of Lenou would take it over; the owner decides.
Home Assistant's hourly statistics come along, so the energy history does not start at zero.
Honest limits
- Scenes, scripts, automations, vacuums, alarm panels and cameras from Home Assistant do not come along as devices.
- Battery levels that Home Assistant keeps as separate sensors are skipped.
- If Home Assistant is gone, its devices show "unavailable" in Lenou.