I have a T25 video door station from Mobotix and I would like to get it to pass information to OpenHab. I know how to make it trigger openhab items but for the special case that I’m targetting, the normal mechanisms are not enough (I am trying to capture in openhab the “RFiD card events” with the triggering RFiD card identifier included in the message - and this is supported only via MxMessageSystem - APIs are provided but they are in C++…
See here http://developer.mobotix.com/ (scroll down one page) for info on it (there is a readme.html file in the zip file if someone wants to look at the details).
I think what is needed is to build a binding, but since I have never done it, I was wondering what would be the closest example of binding I could look at to have an example to adapt to fit this specific case?
isn’t it possibile to use basic ipnotify protocol?
I’ve set up an http daemon that listen for http messages from mobotix camera.
I will use it to record sensor states from cameras and print them in an openhab sitemap or trigger OH events
Thanks Dexter for your feedback. The issue I face is that the T25 door station is NOT able to send the information of e.g. RFiD badge used to open the door (confirmed by Mobotix support). The same support suggested i should use the MxMessageSystem so I’m now trying to understand how to do it:slight_smile:
I do use ipNotify protocol from the T25 for other things e.g. bell event etc…
Update : I finally was able to do what I was trying to do… I thought I would update this topic for the sake of completeness.
What I wanted to do : Get the information from the T25 about RFID or PIN granted access (basically who got granted access and when).
The problem : As I mentioned above, the T25 can not provide the information on e.g. the badge that was granted access in the TCP messages.
The solution that I discarded : trying to develop something to generate the messages needed from T25 as explained above.
The solution that seems to work : Use the TCP messages to notify Openhab that “a” RFID or PIN access was granted and then trigger from Openhab an access to the T25 dedicated log file containing the detailed info on what RFID badge or what PIN got granted access and when.
This is basically a 1 line script with a curl call to the log, piped into a tail -n 1 to get the last line, and then some parsing of this line… Simple, but it took me a while to get it working
Ah, yes, you first need to have an openhab setup up and working.
Did you follow the tutorials/guides on how to setup openhab and get started? I’m not fluent enough to guide you through how to setup openhab, sorry. I did it once one year ago but this is about it on my experience in setting up openhab. Since then I build on what I have.
Helping you would mean do it again myself and I don’t have enough time for that.
Yes, absolutly, in the items folder, you need to create a misc.items file with the definition I gave you and check the log file to be sure that everything goes fine when you save.
Then you create a sitemap file in the sitemaps directory and expose the switch. Then you should be able to switch on and off…
As far as I remember this command is supported by the T25 out of the box.
But reading your URL, I think there has been some transcoding errors when I pasted it and you should replace & by & as follows: http://myusername:mypassword@myip/control/rcontrol?action=customfunction&action=sigout&profile=~Door
If when using the URL in the browser it says ok, it is a good step… Did you check if it did open the door?
Then, I’m not sure how to help with the error you get in visual studio, would help if you could indicate the error you get.
One thing you may want to check : did you install the http binding in openhab? This might very well be the missing step.
