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Hello Telldus,

first of all: thanks for developing those nice products and making the code OpenSource. I really appreciate this philosophy!

Recently I purchased TellStick Net to play a little and do a little home-automation!
I've been an open source developer for 15 years now, but I don't know much about this electronics stuff so I have some questions.

Right now I'v got 2 switches and 2 switch/dimmer which I purchased at the german supermarket "Aldi" around 2007.
As you can see for from the photos, those things are called "Globaltronics GT-7000AD" (GT-7000AS for the switch).
I don't find them in the list of supportet devices nor in Telldus Live.

In Telldus Live I see a lot of devices which seem to have sort auf a (dip?) switch for settings the house code.

Those things from Aldi don't have such a switch. The house code (I assume, since I'm new to this technology) is set by generating it on the remote control by pressing a little button which is inside the batterie case and then do a learning-step with the switches/dimmers by pressing the learn button.

Question: are those Aldi things supported?
And: are those kind of "learning remotes" supported anyway?
Is it planed (probably you need to add some kind of learning mode to TellstickNet and TelldusLive)?

If those things won't work I'll buy new one. Do you have a recommandation? Which ones are the best?

And: If there is chance to support those Aldi-devices (they are pretty widespread in germany, since Aldi is the largest supermarket here), I could help you to e.g. by dissassembling these devices.

Regards
Volker

vsauer wrote:Hello Telldus,
And: are those kind of "learning remotes" supported anyway?

Sorry, obviously some kind of learning is supportet, I've found it on Telldos Live!

I opened one of the dimmers and the remote control. Maybe this will help.

Sorry, I haven't seen these kind of receivers before.

This kind of receivers are called "self learning".

For compatible devices, please see our list here:
http://www.telldus.com/products/compability

How can I identify working receivers? Do the have a special chip? Which chips do you support?

Most of the receivers use a generic chip. We identify them on the manufacturer.

Hey vsauer,

have you found out, how to controll the ALDI Devices with the TellStick?

I´ve nearly the same ones, also from ALDI (very popular discounter in Germany ).

Looking forward to hear from you!

Cheers,
Lanzalot

Hi,
I also have Globaltronics that I would like to use with my Telldus Net.
Has anyone mde them work?
I tried all the devices in the list and tried the learn button.
Nothing seems to work.
Is there a way to make it learn the remote from this GT ?

Thanks,
Rick

Hi,

Got my tellstick yesterday, and since I have these devices Globaltronics GT-7008AS with a "Quigg" on the front, bought in Aldi some while ago.
I started to look into getting them work with tellstick.

None of the drivers work, so I started to investigate, and now I have them working with the tdtool.

My question is now, can someone do the programming of a new driver, or do I have to start developing this myself.

I can give the necessary information about how to program them.

They work like:

You will have to sent first bit on, then the next 12 bits define the remote code, then the next 8 bit define the unitcode.

Bit 1 = $k
Bit 0 = k$

There are 4 different unitcode, and one code for turning on and one for turning off.

#1 ON 00010001 = $k$k$kk$$k$k$kk$
#1 OFF 00000000 = $k$k$k$k$k$k$k$k
#2 ON 10010011 = k$$k$kk$$k$kk$k$
#2 OFF 10000010 = k$$k$k$k$k$kk$$k
#3 ON 11010010 = k$k$$kk$$k$kk$$k
#3 OFF 11000011 = k$k$$k$k$k$kk$k$
#4 ON 01010000 = $kk$$kk$$k$k$k$k
#4 OFF 01000001 = $kk$$k$k$k$k$kk$

So an example is like to turn on Unit #2.

S$$kk$k$$kk$k$k$$k$k$k$k$kk$$k$kk$$k$kk$k$+

Anyone in for the coding ?

/Tox