Looking for a simple temp control for a water heater. (Sonoff/Mqtt)

[retoocs (ret)]

Hi guys,
after a full day of tinkering, I’v got OH2 up and running on a RPI.
Now I need a simple control for a water heater like temp <50C Power on / >70C Power Off.
A Temp setting in the Webui would be great also.
What I have so far:
A “Sonoff TH16” connected via MQTT, which displays the proper Temp. in OH2
A “switch” in OH2 which also works, so I can turn on/off the Sonoff TH16
home.items:

Number SonoffTemp "Aktuelle Temperatur [%.1f °C]" <temperature> {mqtt="<[broker:tele/sonoff-TH16/SENSOR:state:JSONPATH($.DS18B20.Temperature)]"}
Switch Schalter "Ein/Aus" <light> (LR,gLight){ mqtt=">[broker:cmnd/sonoff-TH16/POWER:command:*:default],<[broker:stat/sonoff-TH16/POWER:state:default]" }

home.sitemap

sitemap home label=“TEST”
{
Frame label=“TH16”
{
Text item=SonoffTemp
Switch item=Schalter icon=“light”
}
}

So I think, I need some kind of rule, which triggers/reads the temp and switches the Sonoff on/off?
I tried some code snippets from here and there, but none of them worked as expected.
Any help (understandable for a non-coder) please…

[hr3 (Harry)]

untested

rule "xxx"
when
   Item SonoffTemp changed
then
   if ( SonoffTemp.state < 50 && Schalter.state != ON) {Schalter.sendCommand(ON)}
   else if ( SonoffTemp.state > 70 && Schalter.state != OFF) {Schalter.sendCommand(OFF)}
end

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

@retoocs

I tried some code snippets from here and there, but none of them worked as expected.

Show us what you have tried
Write a rule from the snippets, it probably won’t work but we’ll help you make it work as show you why it was not working
We won’t write a rule for you but we’ll help make your work. It’s the best way to learn
If we just give you a rule that you then copy and paste, the next time you need another rule to do something else you’ll be just as stuck.
So have a go, you can’t really break anything

[retoocs (ret)]

Seems, I was just to impatient, because my Sonoff sends MQTT states only every 5 minutes, so I just had to wait…
I guess @Harry is also correct, since his rule is almost identical.
Thanks so far:
Now to the next step…any ideas how to realize the Temperature settings via Webgui?
BTW: I’ve used this rule:

rule “Water too cold”
when
Item SonoffTemp changed
then
if (SonoffTemp.state < 30) {
Schalter.sendCommand(ON)
}
if (SonoffTemp.state > 33) {
Schalter.sendCommand(OFF)
}
end

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

@retoocs

Temperature settings via Webgui?

What do you mean?

[retoocs (ret)]

something like this.

But after a quick look into the code, I think, I will probably skip that idea…

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

It’s very easy
You need two items
KomfortTemp and SparTemp

Then use (KomfortTemp.state as Number) in your rule to use their values

[hr3 (Harry)]

https://www.openhab.org/docs/configuration/sitemaps.html#element-type-setpoint
add to your items and sitemap

Setpoint item=WunschTemp minValue=18 maxValue=24 step=0.5

and rule

rule "xxx"
when
   Item SonoffTemp changed or
   Item WunschTemp changed
then
   if ( SonoffTemp.state < (WunschTemp.state -1) && Schalter.state != ON) {Schalter.sendCommand(ON)}
   else if ( SonoffTemp.state > (WunschTemp.state +1) && Schalter.state != OFF) {Schalter.sendCommand(OFF)}
end

[SOLVED] Help with thermostat rule

Hi, I’m using latest version of Openhab2 on a Raspberry Pi3 (latest OS). I’m having a simple heating solution: Danboss thermostat on the wall and Fibaro smart plug between electric heater and a wall plug. The logic is that when thermostat sees the room is cold, it turns on the smartplug, which turns on the heater and if thermostat sees the room is in set temperature, it turns off the plug again. I’m not experienced coder so I found a suitable rule somewhere from this forum, which works for me…

[retoocs (ret)]

Ok, it’s in the Webui and I can change the values up and down.
I used the rules above, but the Sonoff does not switch ON/OFF
home.rules

rule "xxx"
when
   Item SonoffTemp changed or
   Item WunschTemp changed
then
   if ( SonoffTemp.state < (WunschTemp.state -1) && Schalter.state != ON) {Schalter.sendCommand(ON)}
   else if ( SonoffTemp.state > (WunschTemp.state +1) && Schalter.state != OFF) {Schalter.sendCommand(OFF)}
end

.sitemap:

Setpoint item=WunschTemp label="Komfort Temperatur" icon="heating" minValue=25 maxValue=40 step=0.5

.items:

Number WunschTemp "WunschTemp [%.1f]"

[hr3 (Harry)]

rule "xxx"
when
    Item SonoffTemp changed or
    Item WunschTemp changed
then
    if ( SonoffTemp.state < ((WunschTemp.state as Number) - 0.5) && Schalter.state != ON) {Schalter.sendCommand(ON)}
    else if ( SonoffTemp.state > ((WunschTemp.state as Number) + 0.5) && Schalter.state != OFF) {Schalter.sendCommand(OFF)}
end

[retoocs (ret)]

That works great!
Thank you very much.
Tomorrow I will try to implement a “min/max temperature” solution.
I think, with this working examples now, it shouldn’t be a major issue…otherwise

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

As I said in post #7
Remember to use as Number to get the state of an item number to a Number Type

(WunschTemp.state as Number)

[MDAR (Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)]

Hi
I’ve just set something like this up for a client.

I used a slider in their UI for the target temperature and another slider to set the Hystisis (they opted for a +/- of 4°c in the real world and a target of 50°c, the image below is from my development setup)