Blinds & curtains
MasterLink Gateway
giachello/mlgw · vv2024.9.1
HACSLocal push
This components integrates Bang & Olufsen Master Link Gateway and Beolink Gateway to Home Assistant, the open-source home automation platform.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
media_player | TV, receiver or media switches | Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
How it connects
Local push
Talks to the device on your network, and the device tells Home Assistant the moment something changes.
Found automatically over
- Bonjour (zeroconf)
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 14 |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 34 |
| Latest version | v2024.9.1 (2024-09-17) |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @giachello, @Lele-72, @astrandb |
Limitations from the README
- When a Audio Master or a Video Master starts playing a source that it owns (e.g., a BeoSound 3000 turning on A.MEM), it doesn't tell the ML bus that is happening, so we cannot detect it in the plugin. Unfortunately, there is no known solution.
- When a Video Master has several sources active at the same time (e.g., a Decoder on 'TV' being played locally and a tuner on 'DTV' being distributed on the system) it reports both sources at the same time and that confuses the plugin.
- Reports that certain NL products (e.g., Beosound 35) will forward LIGHT commands sent through a IR remote (e.g., Beo4) but not the Bluetooth remote (e.e., BeoRemote One). The workaround is to listen to the LIGHT events using my BeoPlay plugin.
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
Sources
- Documentation: https://github.com/giachello/mlgw
- Source code: https://github.com/giachello/mlgw
- Issues: https://github.com/giachello/mlgw/issues
- HACS: https://hacs.xyz
