My openHab Setup

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@SkyyStorm

I have ‘presence detection’ for me and other people that live and visit my house, using static ip addresses on my wifi using our phones, and the ping binding on openHAB. But sadly, this isn’t working as intended. My phone often disconnects from WiFi, presumably to save battery, which causes false positives to occur on presence detection. So I’m still trying to figure out how to reliably tell openHAB if specific people are present in the house.

In addition to FIND, you can look at BT based sensors like reelyActive reelyActive Smart Spaces Revisited or GitHub - rkoshak/sensorReporter: A python based service that receives sensor inputs and publishes them in various ways..

The arping configuration on the Network binding should mitigate the wifi issues you are experiencing, though it takes a little bit of tuning to get it into asteady state. There are also options where people run scripts on their routers to detect and report presence of phones on the network.

Usually, one needs to run a combination of sensors to reliably determine presence. Generic Presence Detection will help you consolidate the sensors.

@SkyyStorm

I’m still working on some form of timer work-around for it.

Design Pattern: Motion Sensor Timer

Edit: Updates for OH 4 Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them for details on how to use DPs. Problem Statement Many motion detectors only report ON when they detect motion but do not send a corresponding OFF after no motion has been detected after a period of time. In addition, often one wants to control a device like a light for a certain period after the last motion is seen, not after the motion sensor goes to OFF. Therefore one needs to keep a Contact OPEN…

@SkyyStorm

Add the ability for me to open my automated garage and gate through openHAB.

[OH2] Control ESP8266 Relay using MQTT Eventbus

This simple tutorial will explain how to configure OpenHab 2 in order to remotely control a Relay (electrically operated Switch). It is based on my mini project with the NICE SpA Robo 500 Sliding Gate Opener but you can adopt it to your needs and control many other devices from OpenHab 2 using an ESP8266 based board. Requirements OpenHAB 2 Snapshot (I used Build # 636 but any version greater than beta4 will do) Mosquitto MQTT Broker (v1.4.10) MQTT Binding (v1.9.0.201612100210) with MQTT-…

@SkyyStorm

Use a smart mini weather station to give me realtime info about the weather, and send alerts if it is cold enough for a jacket, or if it is raining hard at my house.

There is a weather binding and other ways to get weather info without having your own weather station, to at least get you started.

Good writeup.Thanks for posting.

@SkyyStorm

When armed, the alarm will trigger on any movement or changes in the sensors,

You can kill two birds with one stone using cameras and something like EyeSpy, ZoneMinder, or Shinobi. These CCTV software systems can report to OH when motion is detected.