Would there be a way to have OpenHAB be the receiver of the data from Torque and put it on the bus as if it was a sensor? I just noticed that Home Assistant IO did something with it thats why I ask. https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.torque/
The problem is, at least based on my looking at that repo, is that the Torque app doesn’t publish the data in a way that openHAB can understand (i.e. it doesn’t conform to OH’s REST API) so you need something in between to translate the data coming in from Torque to something OH can understand. The root of the problem is that the only web server that OH supports that allow other programs to make HTTP calls TO openHAB is its REST API.
Hi all, I came across this device, which can be used world wide, any idea if it can be integrated into OH?
OBD
My 5c here. I haven’t cared enough to connect my car OBD to OH, however I rough way might be…
Dash app (instead of Torque) to gather trip info, saving overall trip info to Google Sheets, and then Google Sheets to OH? (Both piped via IFTTT).
As I say I haven’t bothered to try the whole of that, and it would only provide overall trip info (not realtime gauge info).
I know the first half works (Dash > IFTTT > Google Sheets) as I do that myself to record trips, notify me when time for servicing, etc.
I know OH now connects to IFTTT. Remains to be seen if the OH IFTTT connector can pass enough info thru.
I ended up using Node-Red as the interface to the Torque app it receives the data and retransmits it via MQTT for all apps and programs to devour. If anyone is interested I’ll post the flow to this thread.
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OK here is the flow. the simple part is receiving the get.
The HTTP in node splits out the data and the HTTP out node gives the “OK!” the torque app is looking for.
I also have a write to MySQL to store the data. that can be removed if youonly want to see it real time or have openHAB do the logging.
In torque under Settings > Data Logging and Upload
Select what to log = All the PID’s you want to sent to node-red
Upload to web server = checked
Webserver URL = http://your.nodered.server:1880/torque/
let me know if you have any more questions.
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Did you get any futher with this project?
I´m actually thinking to add an ODB scanner (read) to my car as well.
My node red to mqtt implementation still works great when I use torque android app
Looks great…
I´m not using Nodered. I was thinking perhaps using mqtt insted. But I have no idea how to get from the Tourque app to my mqtt server. (this is to prevent opening my server to the internet, ie portforward).
Also I would like it to “dump” the data, whenever the car is at home (connected to Wifi). I´m not sure if this is possible at all.
Tourque doesn’t speak MQTT. You need to have something that understands the http calls that Tourque makes and translates those to MQTT. David had implemented this go between using NodeRed. If you don’t want NodeRed, you need to create something else that does sander thing. And if you host that on your LAN you will need to NAT the port.
I know. I just hoped I could use mqtt insted, rather than to install yet another server.
I kinda hoped Torque could work on LAN only using wifi, and then dump the data when car is getting home.
torque does save log files in your phone. but you would have to setup some kind of mechanism on your phone to transfer the files when you are on your home network
Tasker can probably manage this.
Hmm. I surely have to try this… The cost is very low, (I thought a ODB2 reader was expencive).
I have seen Tasker mentioned quite a few times. I have no idea what it is.
It’s like openHAB for your Android phone. Events or states occur on your phone (e.g. WiFi is near) and it performs tasks (e.g. send the contents of the Torque log files to openHAB using an HTTP call).
To give one of my more complicated examples:
In the morning when I turn on my car Tasker sees I’ve connected to the BT in the car:
- If I’m home, bring up a dialog asking if I want to open the garage, if yes issue a command to openHAB to open the garage
- record the current brightness of the screen
- turn off auto brightness
- set the brightness of the screen to 200 if it’s day time, 157 if it’s night time
- turn off the display timeout
- bring up a menu asking which audio app I want to start playing and start playback on the selected app
- if I’m home, bring up Waze and start navigation to work, if I’m at work and it’s afternoon bring up Waze and navigate to home (I used to scrape the display and send my ETA as a text to my wife), otherwise just bring up Waze.
- If at home, bring up the dialog to close the garage and if selected trigger OH to close the garage.
When the phone disconnects, it restores the brightness, stops the playback after backing up 30 seconds, and closes everything down.
Just took a quick look at it…
Do you use the addon AutoTools as well as Tasker to perform the complicated example or just Tasker?
Yes, I use AutoLocation, AutoInput, AutoNotifications, and AutoRemote for some things.
I use AutoLocation for the geofencing though that may be built into Tasker now (I’ve been a Tasker user since it was in beta and haven’t kept up with everything) and there are other approaches like cell tower near and wifi near that may work better for you.
I used AutoInput for scraping the ETA from Waze when I used that.
I use AutoInput, AutoNotifications, and AutoRemote for controlling some of the media apps. Some apps are nice like PocketCasts and provide intents so they can be controlled natively. Others like Audible and Chirp do not.
- AutoInput controls Audible, Librivox, and Smart Audiobook Reader
- AutoNotifications controls Chirp
- AutoRemote controls Google Play Music
I simply have to give it a try. It sounds awesome in many ways. Specially to runtine to get it to open the garagedoor, when the engine starts… Thats an awesome idea.
And If I can get it to dump the data from the odb2 scanner it should work for local (LAN) only…
A few concerns though related to Torque.
How many BT connections can a mobilephone handle at the same time. I already got the phone connected to my radio in the car using BT. It´s also connected through USB (for Android Auto use).
I have ordered the odb2 scanner (yesterday) so I guess I´ll know within a coupple of days 