Master OH2 linked to slave Openhabians

[compworx (Mark)]

Hi,

I’m trying to find information on connecting my OH2 on a Windows server to act as a master to my openhabian units I have around the property.

I can’t seem to find any guides on how to set this up.

[gitMiguel (Miika Jukka)]

I found this:

[SOLVED] Multiple instances of Openhab

Hi I am new with openhab. I want to implement an architecture for automation of a building consisting of some rooms. In each room there is a rapsberry pi with LCD touchscreen running an instance of openhab on it. All of these rasperry pis are connected to a central server running another instance of openhab. The server should check the status of each room periodically and there are some other feature for this architecture, for example the server can stream video to each raspberry pi, so there s…

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Using the new MQTT 2.x binding see MQTT 2.5 Event Bus

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

NodeRed can connect to multiple OH2 instances.

Node-RED as Alternative Rule Engine

“Node-RED is a visual wiring tool for the Internet of Things.” From an Openhab perspective it a visual tool that can replace the builtin rules engine. There is a good discussion thread already running here around Node-RED. The purpose of this tutorial is specifically how to replace the functionality of the Openhab rules engine with Node-RED utilizing @Peter_De_Mangelaere‘s nodes for easily connecting to Openhab. Update 8/18 I have fully migrated my deployment over to MQTT using the built in …

I’ve got two instances of OH2 that seem to play nicely across some NodeRed logic.