Raspberry PI Sense Hat

[Matthias_Peschek]

Hello there,

I’m totaly new to OpenHab and just learn to walk on my feet
My AVM-FRITZ!DECT 200 works fine and soon I’ll test the Tradfri from IKEA.

I’ve also got the “Sense Hat” for my raspberry pi.
So I’m searching for a solution to bring the information the Sensehat gathers into my Openhab Dashboard.
Is there a “binding” or some other way to display the Sense Hat informations?

Thank you very much in advance!
best wishes
Matthias

[Dim (Angelos)]

welcome !

I don’t think that there is an existing solution (aka binding) to integrate directly the output of the sensors from the Sense Hat in openHAB.

You can take a look here for some ideas on how to proceed:

Help me understand if openHAB will work with my plans

MQTT is a protocol that several IoT applications do can already talk to each other, openHAB being among them. What you will need is that your Grove or Tart software (to read the sensors) can send sensor output in MQTT form to your openHAB server. If they cannot, you can either run a script on that gateway Pi (be it Python or any other script language) to do that for your, i.e. extract the sensor values and forward them to the openHAB server encapsulated in MQTT. Here’s an example that reads in…

[Matthias_Peschek]

Hi, thanks alot.

I would love to use the Pi as server and with the Sensor Hat.
But I’m not sure if it is possible to run openhabian and still get the sensor data.

[Dim (Angelos)]

openHABian = Raspbian with a set of extra cool tools that help you to run openHAB, so I shouldn’t worry about it.
It runs everything that you would run on a vanilla Raspbian image. Go for it

[Matthias_Peschek]

But is there a way to display e.g LXDE and run the openhab server in backround?

Sorry if this is totaly obvious and I just don’t see it

[Dim (Angelos)]

Absolutely
You will be able to install any debian package that is made for Raspbian (8 Jessie) (and keep running openHAB as a service in the background with all these cool features that openHABian offers)

[Matthias_Peschek]

Okay,… I have to admit I’m way more noob…

I installed OpenHabian and configured wifi etc. so this works.
When I start the Raspberry it’ll boot until "login"
There I can log into the openhab server but from there I don’t know how to start (or install) LXDE

[Dim (Angelos)]

openHABian is based upon the Raspbian Lite (minimal image based on Debian Jessie = headless without display)
To get a graphical environment, you would need to install several extra packages

You can follow this guide:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=133691