An official version of this binding is now included in openHAB.
Please use this topic for support and discussion on further development.
Original post:
Hi all,
I’ve recently moved from Domoticz to openHAB and would like to control my heating using the OpenTherm Gateway like I did in the past with Domoticz. However, it seems like there is no Binding for openHAB to control the OTGW.
There are some alternatives, like using OTmonitor and an MQTT broker, or using a serial to ethernet converter and openHAB’s TCP binding, but they require additional programs or even hardware and a lot of configuration.
So, I’m planning to write an OpenTherm Gateway binding for openHAB, that allows direct integration of the OTGW in openHAB and expose it’s values as Items. Communication to the OTGW will be through a serial to ethernet converter first, since that’s what I am using. But through an OpenTherm connector interface, other connectors such as one for USB or COMx would be easily added.
The full command set can be found here
http://otgw.tclcode.com/firmware.html#configuration
The first version of the binding should at least provide periodic information from PS=1 (summary with all values) and allow the user to set temporary, constant and outside temperatures.
I have set up my dev environment and although it’s been a while since I last developed using Java (last years have mostly been .NET) the skeleton project and other bindings such as Toon are really helpful.
I am currently trying to find some openHAB examples of opening sockets to TCP or Com ports etc.
Anyway, would like to hear your opinion on developing an OTGW binding for openHAB ! Any ideas, tips etc would be very much appreciated.