New binding for home made hardware

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Hi there,
recently I was creating a new binding called DiyOnXBee which I’m using for several weeks now. The idea was to create sensors/actors by myself and integrate it to my existing openhab installation.

I decided to use the XBee Series 2 modules and I used some arduinos I had around for several years.

Currently I run one arduino/xbee sending temperature, humidity, brightness and motion events and a home made RGB led controller.

the question is if there is more demand for such a very special binding because if that’s the case I will place a pull request (after some very necessary code cleanup, I was in a hurry putting all together).

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I would be curious to see what you have.

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what do you mean? As I’ve linked the github branch containing the binding, I assume you want a description of the hardware I made?

4

I apologize, I am new to the community. I missed the link.

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I also wanted to make a similar setup using openhab running on raspberry pi with xbee to control my home…
Could you help me with getting started with this…

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Sure, do you already have a specific question that I can answer? It would be great to get a idea on where you are.

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i already compiled openHab 1.8.0 with eclipse and set it up on a raspberry pi 2 B+ and tested the openHab demo config with openHab android app on my smartphone. I want to know how did u bind xbee with openHab and how to send and receive data over it.? And pardon me if you find this question redundant after giving the source code but i am a total noob and only know the basics.

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Hi,
I decided to start a documentation at https://github.com/juri8/openhab/wiki/DIY-on-XBee-Binding. It’s just like a stub right now but you already see how it integrates to openhab. I’ll add the content of the empty topics soon.

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Hii i also wanted to ask did you connect xbee module to usb port or gpio pins …
and thanks for the documentation, it would really be a big help

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I bought a xbee usb explorer and connected it via usb. I’ve read about the possibility to use the GPIO pins, but currently I’ve a 433 MHZ transmitter and receiver connected on GPIO, and the USB solution can also be tested on other hardware which was the main reason (together with simplicity) for this approach.

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Does XBee binding works with Openhab 2 ?

Why it is still not part of OH1 addons ?

How it is different from zigbee https://github.com/cdjackson/openhab2/tree/zigbee binding ?

Please see the below comments on this binding and could you respond to it please if it make sense.

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Hi,
I don’t know if the binding works with Openhab 2 because I had no time yet to play with Openhab 2. I also don’t know the difference to the zigbee binding, but my binding is to interact with home brewn hardware.

The binding is no part of the Openhab 1 addons because I did not make a pull request. Prior to doing that I was asking here if there is any interest in that plugin as it’s pretty much special All other bindings implement industrial protocols to interact with commercial products - I defined a protocol on my own and implemented it in this binding.

I hope my answer is of any help, more input is welcome.

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Thanks for the clarification.

I would like to know how is your binding differ from the one mentioned in this link http://technomindshare.blogspot.in/2014/04/interfacing-xbee-with-openhab.html.

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Although I searched for a existing binding I did not find the one you mentioned - I have no idea about the differences.
Anyway, I’d like to complete my binding with an Arduino library that can be used to implement the sensor/actor side.

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Here is the code link

http://code.google.com/r/diaoulael-xbee/source/browse

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I just took a quick look at the plugin. It seems this plugin is intended to interact with a XBee module which can do some things without a microcontroller.

That’s the difference to my binding.

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Great, thanks for quick reply.

I believe to work with XBee modules I cannot use your binding without a microcontroller(Arduino), am I right?

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I’m afraid that’s true. I’m using a custom text based protocol that I’m sending via the XBees. I’m just using their networking functionality.

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Hi,

I have a doubt here.

I believe your binding sends cmd in key=value pair to the respective XBee END DEVICE and that END DEVICE is connected to Arduino and it will take care of sending it to different sensors connected to it, Am I right here ?

Thanks.

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Hi,

I did OH build(mvn clean install) by cloning the repo from https://github.com/juri8/openhab.

kpatil  ~  xbee_diy  openhab  git branch

  • diyxbee
    master

Now I don’t see the diyonxbee binding in the directory.

Is it part of OH core or where does it present in the openhab directory ?

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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 27:35.994s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Dec 11 12:24:52 IST 2015
[INFO] Final Memory: 368M/738M
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I could see only below jar files

kpatil  ~  xbee_diy  openhab  find . -name *.jar | grep xbee

./bundles/binding/org.openhab.binding.diyonxbee/lib/RXTXcomm.jar
./bundles/binding/org.openhab.binding.diyonxbee/lib/log4j.jar
./bundles/binding/org.openhab.binding.diyonxbee/lib/xbee-api-0.9.jar

Thanks.