senseBox binding

hakan · December 7, 2016, 9:00pm

I have written an openHAB2 binding to fetch data from senseBox installations. Besides the usual temperature and pressure readings, those boxes have sensors Ultra-Violet radiation and generic visible light illumination.

It is not very widely tested yet (the binding having reached “pull request ready” status just this evening) but I am running the current code with two remote endpoints (one being my garden, the other the “Zugspitze”.

I have submitted a pull request to integrate the binding into openHAB2, but until it is well peer reviewed and merged into the core, you can download a pre-compiled jar from the Eclipse marketplace:

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/sensebox

and drop it into your “addons” directory.

I would be delighted if some of you guys could give it a little test. the quickest way to play with this addon would be to:

download the jar and put it into your addons directory.
possibly restart your openHAB instance
go to https://opensensemap.org/
find a box in a nice place you are interested in, for example the “Zugspitze” in Bavaria
clicking on the box leads you to an “explore” page
the part after the “…/explore” is the node ID.
go to the Paper UI and create a senseBox thing and provide the ID you just have found
enjoy any data you fetch and tell me of your use cases

The full documentation is in the README.md on github:

github.com

hakan42/openhab2-addons/blob/sensebox-binding/addons/binding/org.openhab.binding.sensebox/README.md

# senseBox Binding

The senseBox binding integrates environment data from the [senseBox](https://sensebox.de/)
Citizen Science Toolkit.

## Prerequisites

The API server uses Letsencrypt certificates. Therefore, one needs to either import the Letsencrypt
root certificates into the local keystore (see the description in the
[netatmo addon](http://docs.openhab.org/addons/bindings/netatmo/readme.html)).
Another way would be to simply update the JDK to at least JDK 1.8.0_111

## Supported Things

This binding supports a generic "senseBox" API endpoint which is a representation of the physical box.

## Discovery

This binding provides no discovery. The desired senseBox must be configured manually or via a things file.

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hakan · December 31, 2016, 11:42am

I have updated the precompiled jar with support for the image URL of the box and an improved example including a sitemap. It is the version from December 26th, the current state of the pull request.

hakan · March 7, 2017, 5:08pm

The precompiled jar is on the Eclipse marketplace now.

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/sensebox

hakan · May 1, 2017, 9:32am

With much help and patience from @Kai and @martinw72, this binding is merged into the core now

I am removing it from the marketplace,as it will be in the “official” build from tonight on.

joergzschimmer · April 5, 2018, 10:54am

Hello Hakan,
Thanks for the Bindind SenseBox - now I can also retrieve my data from my sensor!
I just have one problem: all values appear in the sitemap, except the barometric pressure.
The following message appears in the events.log:

2018-04-05 12: 47: 28.409 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - home_PM2dot5 changed from NULL to 1.37
2018-04-05 12: 47: 28.409 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - home_Location changed from NULL to 52.475727,13.316314,3.5
2018-04-05 12: 47: 28.409 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - home_Pressure changed from NULL to UNDEF
2018-04-05 12: 47: 28.409 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - home_Humidity changed from NULL to 50.69
2018-04-05 12: 47: 28.409 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - home_Temperature changed from NULL to 16.57

Can you give a tip to a beginner?

hakan · November 27, 2018, 8:42pm

Hi @joergzschimmer ,

Sorry to have overlooked this question for so long.

If the question is still valid, could you perhaps give me your sensebox id so I can have a look at the data stream?

Regards,
Hakan