A new set of toys – ESP8266
So – in the past week, my order arrived. Have been thinking of ordering a couple of units that everyone talks about… Really don’t know why it took so long time, but now I have four E...
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openHAB binding for Visonic alarm module
As written earlier, I managed to write my own process to communicate with the PowerMax alarm. This actually works really well, but I have not taken the time to make this process communicating two ways...
MySensors integrated in openHAB
As i wrote in previous post, I have temporarily ditched my own server process for bridging MySensors to MQTT and then integrate it in openHAB, with a setup that means that openHAB is used as the contr...
Follow up on the ”SensorsToMQTT” project
There has not been very much action in the home automation or prototyping areas since last post. However, I managed to update the project to MySensors 1.4 protocol (yes, I know there is a 1.5 version ...
My own MySensors gateway
As earlier posts described, i’m fascinated over the project ”MySensors”. However, I will not replace my setup of the openHAB server and my MQTT-implementation (using RabbitMQ). This ...
Building blocks for a sensor network
Hi again – no doubt it was some time since my last post here. Has the project been on hold? No, not at all. A couple of weeks ago – I took the step and ordered some things for a sensor net...
A DS18B20+ and a Pi
Yesterday, I realized that I actually had one Dallas DS18B20+ OneWire temp sensor laying around and not being used. That piece of electronics together with an almost unused Raspberry Pi would actually...
The first step between Arduino and MQTT
Hi! So – the first step has now been completed. The Arduino Nano is now actually getting it’s data all the way to the MQTT bus. Right now, it’s in a pretty ”rough”/testin...
Lets get dirty!
And so the saga begins. My first Arduino Nano with some sensors just arrivedthe goal is to somehow mqttify these prototypes and use them with openHAB. I will post my progress – good as bad 🙂...
Bathroom automation
Introduction One room that is actually fully automated now is our main bathroom. From a equipment point of view, there are two Fibaro dimmers (FGD211) and one Aeon 4in1 sensor (temp, humid, light, mot...