hijinx/rtl433test repository overview

⁠rtl433test

A Docker image for a software defined radio tuned to listen for Current Cost power consumption sensors at 433MHz. This is based off of Marco Verleun's awesome rtl2mqtt image, and chriskacerguis honeywell2mqtt.

⁠Usage

To run the container, use the following:

sudo docker run --name rtl_433 -d \
-e MQTT_HOST=<mqtt-broker.example.com> \
-e MQTT_USER=username \
-e MQTT_PASS=password \
-e MQTT_TOPIC=your/topic/name \
--privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb \
--name honeywell2mqtt chriskacerguis/honeywell2mqtt

docker run --name rtl_433 -d -e MQTT_HOST=hassio.local -e MQTT_USER=sensors -e MQTT_PASS=sensorsmqtt123 --privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb hijinx/rtl433test:Use-sysrun_rpi-rtl_433-as-base-image

⁠MQTT Data

Data to the MQTT server will look like this

{
    "time" : "2017-10-16 20:53:09", 
    "model" : "CurrentCost TX", 
    "dev_id" : 3063, 
    "power0" : 617,
    "power1" : 0, 
    "power2" : 0
}

Its power0 that provides the reading that is desired.

The default topic is: homeassistant/sensor/currentcost

⁠Hardware

This has been tested and used with the Current Cost EnviR with clamp.

However, it should work just fine with any Honeywell RF sensors transmitting on 345Mhz.

⁠Troubleshooting

If you see this error:

Then run the following command on the host

sudo rmmod dvb_usb_rtl28xxu rtl2832