Hi all,
i’m new in the openHab world. I developed an hardware that implement a gateway that communicate in RS-232
with the host, and by this gateway i can communicate with sensor and actuators.
Now, i woiuld like to make this hardware compliant with openHab. I read and make some test with openHab,
but i need help to understand the developement line to follow. First question, is possible to create a configuration
menu where i can do a network discover to see all the node in my network?
openHAB 2 does have a concept of automated discovery of Things which might be what you are referring to. There is documentation for developing an OH 2 binding here on the Eclipse SmartHome project (one of the basis of OH 2).
https://www.eclipse.org/smarthome/documentation/development/bindings/how-to.html
Hi Pablito, I had a similar situation. The lights in my house are low voltage DC controlled by a Lumencache system. The Lumencache systems interface to the outside world is only via RS485, so what I did is get a Raspberry Pi 2 with a Raspicomm RS485 board and wrote some Python code that continually monitors that serial port for status messages.
Since Lumencache broadcasts every light change over this serial bus, I just capture these messages and convert them to an MQTT message that gets sent to a Mosquitto broker running on my OH2 server.
I defined general purpose Items for sending and receiving MQTT messages which are handled by rules to update light statuses in the UI and to send commands to Lumencache when switches/dimmers are activated in the UI.
I don’t know if this helps you, it’s just how I solved my interfacing issues.
Kenny, Pablito,
There’s a full protocol in the LumenCache forum available now here.
Product details available here in the Tabs.
If anyone is interested in publishing and supporting a reliable Openhab driver for LumenCache, please use the LumenCache Contact Us page. We will happily provide hardware to help develop and maintain the driver.