If you are using HomeMatic/homematicIP smart home products with Home Assistant, the future will now be even brighter.
The team around RaspberryMatic has been working hard during the last months to make their alternative “HomeMatic CCU” operating system a full fledged Home Assistant add on with no compromises. Because of the much more advanced functionality of this third-party add-on compared to our own “HomeMatic CCU” add-on, this is now the recommended add-on to use your Home Assistant also as a HomeMatic CCU smart home central. The old “HomeMatic CCU” add-on from the official repository has now been deprecated.
To make migration as smooth as possible, our latest add-on release gained a final functionality: create and export backups. Go to the WebUI and click on “Create Backup” to generate a .sbk system backup file. Stop our “HomeMatic CCU” add-on, install the “RaspberryMatic CCU add-on” and import the backup file to have all your HomeMatic/homematicIP devices available right away. A big shout-out to Jens Maus specifically to make all this happen!
In addition, starting from Home Assistant OS 7.3 towards HAOS supports dual HomeMatic+homematicIP communication when using the HmIP RFUSB RF USB stick with the “RaspberryMatic CCU” add-on. This change will, however, also introduce a device rename for older installations still using the old HomeMatic CCU add-on: With a HmIP-RFUSB, you will need to manually update the “hmip” device setting to /dev/raw-uart after the OS 7.3 upgrade. Or even better: migrate to the RaspberryMatic CCU add-on right away to gain the full cloud-free smart home central functionality like the vendor-provided “CCU3”.
Last, not least, work has just been started to completely rework the HomeMatic/homematicIP device integration layer within Home Assistant itself. While still in on early development phase this complete redesign will come with great new features and a way easier setup and a more complete device integration of all your HomeMatic/homematicIP devices.
So the future of using HomeMatic/homematicIP devices in Home Assistant was never brighter, be part of it!
