Receiving (and if possibled sending) RF433 protocols, current state?

What are the current options for receiving RF433 signals?

I am currently migrating from Domoticz (on a RPi with both an RFXCOM - RFXtrx433 USB Transceiver and an RFLink Gateway) to Hubitat, and have several RF433 devices, primarily little transmitters for sending signals, and a few switches that are slowly being replaced.

Most of them use the KlikAanKlikUit protocol (AC/ARC/HomeEasy EU based protocols) or Oregon Scientific...

Given that I primarily want to be able to receive those signals, so I can continue to use them to activate scenes or devices on Hubitat, and sending signals to switch devices would be nice to have, what are my current options with hubitat?
(Most of the topics here focus on sending rather than receiving signals)

Hubitat doesn’t have a 433 radio so you need to have some sort of intermediary device, ideally with a local http interface.

Look at Broadlink RM4 Pro, this should do what you are looking for, just need to confirm if it will control the type of RF signal you need. Amazon sells it for convenience.

https://www.ibroadlink.com/productinfo/762672.html

Here is the driver page...

I use the RM4 MINI (no RF) and it works perfectly.

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I know the Broadlink RM4 Pro can learn and send RF codes, but my impression was that it doesn't constantly listen for incoming RF433 codes and trigger events on the Hubitat?...

I think you are correct.

I have another use case for having a broadlink mini rm3 watch for an IR signal to trigger a Hubitat rule, but I’m not aware of a way to make that happen.

Maybe @tomw can confirm.

That's correct - the Broadlink devices don't support any continuous listening operation for RF or IR.

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Hi @francesco
What I did was install Home Assistant as that has a driver for the RFXCom and you can integrate HA and Hubitat.
Cheers Rene

I considered that, but I want to reduce the number of components and not increase them... Perhaps I can manage something with my NAS, as that's running 24/7 anyway...

But the fewer 'moving parts' the better.

True, this is why I now have nearly everything running on my NAS in containers. Works like a charm and I am two PI's down, one more to go :slight_smile: . Getting USB to work on a Synology NAS can be tricky I have been told, so I now have it all IP based.

Cheers Rene

IF you are familiar with RTL_433,,, there is now a solution with an EPS32 that can send to an mqtt broker,,, but its only working with reciving 433 signals