Hi Folks

[Andrew_Rowe]

Paul: Welcome to the OpenHAB community!

@paulcam

My system tells OpenHab things it’s needs to know, OpenHab tells mine things it needs to know. Surely MQTT would work there for most things.

easily doable in OpenHAB

@paulcam

set up in Python running on a PI with about a dozen ESP8266s and hacked SOnOff modules with Cacti as the only current front end besides shell and REST requests with bare JSON.

more stuff that is super OpenHAB friendly… no problems

OpenHAB could run as your foundation and leverage your current system or run in tandem with it

If python is your language of choice check out Sebastian’s HABApp

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