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Mon May 31, 2021 3:43 pm
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Alain
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It's a real pain. My Autelis box is dying. I needed to find a solution too.
In the end, you don't need it.
I don't plan on moving away from Indigo, but there are two ways to integrate the Intellitouch brick into Home Assistant (with no other boxes, just communicating over IP with the Pentair brick). Someone better at coding than me could do whatever they did with Home Assistant to integrate it into Indigo (the same way they did it with Home Assistant - one of the ways they do it is with MQTT).
The workaround I am almost done implementing is: I have started running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, and used a Home Assistant integration that talks directly to the Pentair brick from Home Assistant. Works really well on its own. I have now written python scripts for actions and statuses within Indigo to talk to Home Assistant using Home Assistant's REST API. So in a way, the Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant "replaces" the Autelis box (but the Raspberry Pi talks to the Pentair brick over the LAN, not over a serial connection). Quite a workaround, I know. Might have been better off figuring out how to talk to the brick directly from Indigo.
Happy to share specifics if anyone is interested.
Alain