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Home IO Control
ESPHome add-on for IO-Homecontrol devices
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One landing page for the VELUX side of the ecosystem: the roof-window actuators, the control pads and hubs that make good key sources, the wired bridges, and the products controlled over 1W.
| Device | Status |
|---|---|
| INTEGRA roof-window actuator | ✅ Confirmed — open, close, position, ventilation |
| KLR 200 two-way control pad | ✅ Confirmed as a key-extraction source |
| KLR 300 two-way control pad | ✅ Confirmed as a key-extraction source (one community tester) |
| KLF 200 gateway | ✅ Key extraction succeeded (one reporter) — use SEARCH FOR PRODUCTS, and repeat it while armed if it finds nothing |
| KIG 300 hub | ⚠️ Partial — one extraction succeeded, one stalled |
| Devices behind an extracted key | ✅ Confirmed, with low_power: true |
| MSU 100100 solar awning screen | ⚠️ Partial — open and close work; stop has no effect while it moves |
| SSL solar roller shutter | ⚠️ Partial — Discover & Pair, open, close, position and status work; stop reaches it mid-travel, but not on every attempt |
| INTEGRA SOLAR blinds | 📣 Reported, no capture |
| SML electric roller shutter, 1W enrollment + control | ✅ Confirmed — Gear on the KLI, wait for the ready sequence, then Enroll, low_power: false |
| SML electric roller shutter, two-way | 📣 Reported (one reporter) — Discover & Pair after Gear, with a short discovery preamble; open, close, stop mid-travel, set position and status |
| Interior blinds behind a KLI 312, 1W enrollment + control | ✅ Confirmed — enrollment_classes: [vertical_interior_blind, interior_venetian_blind], low_power: true |
| FSC solar pleated blind, 1W enrollment + control | 📣 Reported (one reporter) — reset, pair the KLI, Gear, wait for the ready sequence, then Enroll; enrollment_classes: [vertical_interior_blind, interior_venetian_blind], low_power: true. Discover & Pair got no answer |
Key extraction, essentially always — when there's a two-way hub. VELUX installations almost all have a control pad or hub already, and that hub is what you extract from. Against a KLR 200 this succeeded end to end on the first attempt, including the node verification round that follows it.
On a KLF 200 gateway, arm the hub's Recover System Key switch, then open the KLF 200 web interface, go to the Products page and press SEARCH FOR PRODUCTS. The gateway also checks the products it already knows during that search, so it can end with "No product was found" without taking the ESP. Press the search again while the switch is still armed: in issue #195 it took several searches to deliver the key, and with it Scan Paired Devices found all the reporter's motors. COPY PRODUCTS is not a route: the gateway sends nothing a Discover & Pair could answer.
Once you hold the key, press Scan Paired Devices rather than pairing each device. Every device that trusts the key answers with a ready-to-paste snippet.
For an installation with no hub at all — only a 1W wall switch or remote, or a device fresh out of the box — key extraction has nothing to extract from. If a KLI remote already drives the product, try 1W enrollment, the route confirmed on an SML roller shutter and on KLI 312 interior blinds: press the Gear button on that remote, wait for the product's ready sequence to finish, then press the hub's Enroll button. It gives open/close/stop without status (see Sending 1W commands). An SSL solar roller shutter pairs two-way directly instead; see SSL solar roller shutter below. An SML roller shutter has been reported to pair two-way too; see the SML section below.
The SSL pairs two-way directly with Discover & Pair. It needs no hub to extract a key from, only a motor-side reset.
1. Tuning. No tuning is required: the default discovery goes out behind a short preamble, which the motor answers (it ignores a 1024-byte one), and pairing uses the same length for every frame it sends to the motor afterwards. The reporters' setup also set these two lines; they are not known to be required:
home_io_control: tuning: pairing_discovery_destination: "0x00003F" # confirmed setup; not known to be required pairing_discovery_ack_capable: true # confirmed setup; not known to be required
2. Reset the motor. An SSL ships registered to its KLI wall switch. Pair it right after a reset, which clears the motor's registrations and opens a registration window (10 minutes on the P-button motor). The gesture depends on the motor:
3. Pair. Wait until the shutter has stopped moving, then press Discover & Pair. Repeat it if the first attempt finds nothing. The motor doesn't answer the optional settings frame at the end of pairing; the log says so, and the pairing is complete anyway. Add the printed snippet with low_power: true:
cover: - platform: home_io_control name: "Roller Shutter" io_device_id: "BE2142" # from the pairing log io_device_type: "roller_shutter" io_subtype: 0 low_power: true
4. Register the wall remote again. The reset removed it. Short-press the motor's button (P on the I/O-switch motor; the switchless motor then moves three times, so wait until it stops). Then press the remote's recessed registration button with a paperclip, and close the shutter fully with the remote's down button. The remote and the hub then both work. Use a short press here: the long hold from step 2 resets the motor again and removes the hub as well.
In use: open, close, set position and status work from rest. A command can take up to three tries to reach a sleeping motor. A stop sent while the shutter moves reaches it, and so do the status polls that follow (the one right after the stop makes up to three tries), so the shutter halts and its real position arrives about a second later. It does not land on every attempt — press stop again if the shutter keeps moving, or use the wall remote.
The mains-powered SML takes either route. 1W enrollment gives open, close and stop without status, as described under Onboarding routes above. Two-way pairing, reported by one user on an SX1262 board (issue #230), gives status, position and a working stop mid-travel as well.
Two-way pairing. The shutter needs a short discovery preamble, as the SSL does, and the default is short: 48 bytes on an SX1262, where the reporter paired at 32. The reporter also set this line, which is not known to be required:
home_io_control: tuning: pairing_discovery_ack_capable: true
Press Gear on the shutter's own KLI 310 for about one second; the shutter starts to jog. While it jogs, press Discover & Pair. Press it again if the first search gets no answer: in the report the second search found the shutter. Pairing ends the registration window, so the shutter stops jogging. No motor reset is needed, and the KLI remotes and a 1W enrollment of the same shutter keep working. Discover & Pair found nothing in issue #17, which ran with a 1024-byte discovery preamble; the reporter of issue #230 paired with a 32-byte one. It is not known yet whether pairing_discovery_ack_capable matters.
Once paired, the shutter answers status reads while it moves, with the time left to its target, so the position in Home Assistant follows the move. Stop mid-travel works, set position lands within a few percent, and a press on a linked KLI shows up as described in Linked remotes.
Several shutters on one KUX 110 run one at a time. A shutter commanded while another one on the same KUX 110 moves accepts the command and starts when the first has finished. While it waits, it reports that it waits for power, and the hub follows it: Home Assistant shows the cover opening or closing toward its target, Active Issue reads NODE_WAITING_FOR_POWER, and the position follows once the motor runs. The hub follows a cover for 4 minutes after the command, which covers two shutters one after the other. This is experimental: the waiting state was captured in a main-parameter status read of an SML shutter, not yet in an ordinary status read (see Position and state). The group KLI moves the shutters one after the other.
home_io_control: # ... radio pins ... node_id: "810BAB" # recovered from the KLR 200 system_key: "…" # recovered from the KLR 200 scan_paired_devices_button: true cover: - platform: home_io_control name: "Roof Window" io_device_id: "6544C6" io_device_type: "window_opener" io_subtype: 0 low_power: true
io_device_type: "window_opener" is what generates the Ventilation Position button, which moves the window to its predefined air-exchange opening rather than fully open.
A VELUX control pad moves a window with a short command that carries no speed, and the window travels at its own speed. The hub asks for the fast profile unless told otherwise, so a window it moves runs faster and louder than from its pad: a full travel of one roof window took 44.5 s from its KLR 200 and 26.5 s from the hub (issue #205). Set travel_speed: default on the window's cover for the pad's speed, or silent for the slowest, about 65 s; see Travel speed.
A VELUX window with a wired rain sensor limits its own opening while it rains and then refuses to open past its ventilation position. The rain sensor talks only to the window, so the hub learns about rain only by asking. Set rain_sensor_poll_interval on the window's cover to read the window's opening limit on a schedule; the hub then generates a <Cover Name> Rain sensor binary sensor that is on while the window's minimum limit is 89 % or more:
cover: - platform: home_io_control name: "Roof Window" io_device_id: "123ABC" io_device_type: window_opener rain_sensor_poll_interval: 15min
This is hardware-validated on a VELUX INTEGRA roof-window actuator with a wired rain sensor (issue #98). The reading is as fresh as the interval and uses transmit time on a shared band, so pick the interval with Polling for rain. VELUX KLF 200 API specification v3.18 (section 8.1) describes the same arrangement: a gateway learns of rain only by asking the window.
The two entities answer different questions and work independently:
Other signs of a rain closure, without the poll:
The same read is available once as the limitation diagnostic probe, for checking what a window reports without enabling the sensor. Field data comes from issue #98.
A rain closure moves the window without telling the hub, so the cover keeps its old position until something reads it; so does a KLR 200 command the hub did not overhear. Set status_refresh_interval on the window's cover to read it at rest on a schedule; see Refreshing the status at rest.
Corpus captures across the family: 5 for the INTEGRA roof-window actuator (probe replies, a dry and a rain-limited limitation read, and private-function sweeps dry and in the rain state, from issue #98), 1 for a KLF 200 gateway polling nine devices at 868 MHz (issue #98), 1 for the successful KLR 200 key extraction (node 810BAB, issue #80), 2 for a KLR 300 extraction and the node verification round after it (node E2D1FF, a community tester), 4 for the KIG 300 hub (node BEFEDB), 3 for KLR200 ↔ KUX100 bridge traffic, 3 for the KLI 310 and KLI 313 remotes, and 6 for the SSL solar roller shutter (a TaHoma pairing it; this hub pairing it, with the long preamble ignored and the short one answered; a set-position ack; a stop and status polls that go unanswered while it moves).
Field reports: #17 (SML discovery), #74 (SML roller shutter, KLI 312 blind and FSC pleated blind 1W enrollment), #80 (KLR 200 extraction), #87 (roll-call preamble), #95 (MSU screen stop), #98 (INTEGRA probes), #112 and #114 (SSL solar roller shutter), #195 (KLF 200 extraction), #205 (roof window travel speed), #230 (SML two-way pairing, shutters queued on one KUX 110).