Autonomous Desk Support

[ChrisCrewdson]

Perhaps it uses a different protocol? I cut the controller cable with the RJ50 and spliced in an RJ45 on both cut ends, following the pinouts from https://github.com/tjhorner/upsy-desky/issues/5#issuecomment-1235040100 It seems like it should be fine since power and ground at least seem right with multimeter testing. It does still work with the controller when using two keystone jacks punched down back to back.

When I attach the upsy-desky to the desk, it powers on and I can see it in home assistant, but it does not control the desk or read height.

When plugging in the controller to the upsy-desky, the controller display shows full digits and the backlight powers on However, the buttons only make the backlight turn on while pressed (the normal behavior), but do not operate the desk and the height is not shown.

The controller is https://www.timotion.com/en/products/controls/tdh6-series and the box is https://www.timotion.com/en/products/control-boxes/tc15-series

EDIT: I have also attempted powering the upsy-desky with USB before plugging in the controller, and it does not seem to make any difference.

[tjhorner]

The protocol is indeed different. Someone else has reverse engineered the protocol the Autonomous desks use and posted their work in this repo: https://github.com/Stefichen5/AutonomousControl

I do plan on adding official support for Autonomous desks very soon! Need to make the adapter cables then work on adding support in the firmware.

[ChrisCrewdson]

Thank you! I had just found this discussion which lead me to the same place: https://github.com/tjhorner/wifi-desk-controller/discussions/16

[Gast0n87]

Thank you! I had just found this discussion which lead me to the same place: tjhorner/wifi-desk-controller#16

Did you manage to get it working?

[ChrisCrewdson]

I have not managed to get this working. My first step was to attempt to log the periodic messages from the desk to the controller, but nothing has come through. There might even be a hardware problem since I think the two RJ45 ports on the upsy-desky are tied together and they may need to be separate UARTs: https://github.com/tjhorner/wifi-desk-controller/discussions/16#discussioncomment-3090583 That being said, I haven't managed to get anything working even with just one of the desk or the controller attached at a time.