Control of Solar& Pellets Heater system - OpenHab Beginners experience

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@paicl01

I would strongly appreciate if this binding could be released for ordinary use.

Thanks for the detailed posting. The community really benefits from posts like these.

I’ve just a few comments/questions:

@paicl01

How to set up graphana and Influx for use with openhabian

openHABian is a set of scripts that will set up and configure a Linux system with openHAB and related services (like Samba). That link shows how to setup and configure Grafana and InfluxDB for any OH install, not just openHABian.

Among the things that openHABian will install and configure for you include:

• samba
• InfluxDB
• Grafana

@paicl01

It has a straightforward integration with a binding in Openhab 2.0.

Are you really using OH 2.0? We highly recommend using the latest release which is OH 2.2. There are usually very significant changes even in point released versions, mainly additional capabilities. Consequently, it is important to be very clear and careful when mentioning which OH version you are referring to.

@paicl01

However, until now, you must be very lucky to find this binding in a google search, and manage to install it in Openhab2.

Where did you find it? A link would help others avoid being lucky in a google search and at least monitor the binding for when it goes to beta or gets released.

@paicl01

This is the kind of example for beginners which should be promoted much more, because it can be used in a rule file without trouble.

All of the Design Patterns as well as other useful tutorials are listed here:

https://docs.openhab.org/tutorials/index.html

If you have a better place to list it we are very open to suggestions and even more so to PRs.

Be sure to review the DPs and other tutorials there. You sill see many similar approaches that will likely help you in other aspects of your system as it grows.

@paicl01

So after a few weeks dealing with the syntax issues of rules,

Are you using VSCode with the openHAB extension? It really helps with finding and helping with syntax problems and it helps you discover what methods are available on objects, like now.

@paicl01

The details of the rule file will be provided soon, presently I am still struggling with a few bugs, that should be resolved.

If you need help with the bugs please feel free to ask for help.

@paicl01

Next one will be to define a watering system in the garden.

This might be a place to start: Design Pattern: Cascading Timers