EZRain or EZflora

[Jason M]

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone already has the EZrain / EZflora already working with OpenHab? Would you be willing to share how you got it working?

I have spent some time trying to get it working. I am new to OpenHab but I have other devices working.

For me to start using OpenHab full time I need to get the sprinklers up an running.

Anyone have any idea on this?  On my other system, I just send the 0x40 On cmd and the valve I want to turn on 1-8

Here is more of the ezrain details http://smartenit.com/sandbox/downloads/EZFlora_Command_Set.pdf 

I am just looking for a simple turn valve 1 on,

I have added this device to my_own_device list as a generic switch and OpenHab can see it, but I am a little fuzzy on sending it the ON cmd and the valve number.

Any thoughts, direction, examples would be great to keep me moving forward with OpenHab

Thanks,

[Jaaaay]

Well It sounds like no one has this device up and running on OpenHab.. 

So.... Does anyone have some idea's on sending 2 cmd's?  Is this currently possible?

[Bernd Pfrommer]

You seem to be the first person using this device with openhab.

The short answer is: valve control with openhab is currently not possible.

To control the valves you will need to modify the source code and implement a new command handler in the CommandHandler.java file, which sends a 0x40 message for Valve ON, and 0x41 for Valve OFF, plus the valve number (from an item config parameter) in cmd2.  That command handler then needs to be exposed as a feature in device_features.xml, which in turn can then be referenced in device_types.xml by your newly added sprinkler device.
Bottom line: you need to bring up the openhab dev environment to do it.

On a side note: I just installed opensprinkler at my house and really like it. It's not all that expensive and very powerful.

[Jaaaay]

Thanks Bernd,

I was afraid you were going to say that.. :)

I will look at opensprinkler, but I would like try to stay with Insteon as it has lots of support in other home automation software. 

I really like all the bindings in OpenHab, so I will take a look and maybe attempt to bring up openhab in a dev environment.. 

Are there any resources for getting that setup?  not sure how far I will get, but I will review to see how complicated this would be to add.

Thanks again for the info

[Bernd Pfrommer]

If you want to explore how the device responds to various messages you can try the insteon terminal, a small development tool that my son Daniel has developed. It's much easier to bring up than the full openhab IDE. Check it out at:

https://github.com/vastsuperking/insteon-terminal

We use that tool first to figure out how a device responds, then code it up in java for openhab.

[Jaaaay]

Thanks, I will take a look at that as well and let you know what I find.