Hi Greg, from architectural point of view you are absolutly right.
In EIB environment you have often intelligent devices which are directly interconnected. Means you can pay much money for a EIB enabled weather station which directly send information to the BUS. With my extension you can use a low cost station with a Raspberry as a full replacement, even if you have no homeserver. By the way, i use smarthomeNG with smartVISU as home server with UI. Best regards Alex Greg Troxel schrieb am Mittwoch, 4. November 2020 um 21:29:49 UTC+1: > > It's great that you are extending weewx and contributing. I want to > suggest something else you might want to look into, although it's more > complicated. > > weewwx excels at > dealing with weather station hardware > converting/regularizing weather data > storing weather data for the long term > making graphs and webpages of weather data > with mqtt extension, publishing data to MQTT > probably other stuff I forgot or don't know about > > and while software can be extended in any direction, it sounds like you > are crossing into home automation. I think it makes sense to have a > weather thing and an automation thing and connect them, rather than > making one that does it all. (This is about sharing and reuse, nothing > fundamental). > > For home automation, I use Home Assistant (also python), and I have > weeewx post data to MQTT and ingest that into Home Assistant. So I'd > awnt to have a Home Assistant integration for knx, so that you can > manually control it from the UI, write rules, have HA send the weather > dat to it if that's how it works, or perhaps you'd want the logic in > python and not use the builtin logic. > > As an example, I have rules that change lights depending on how bright > it is outside. not how bright it should be based on time, but based on > the solar radiation sensor from weewx via MQTT. This sounds a bit like > what you probably want with blinds. > > > > I don't mean to say you shouldn't do what you are doing. It certainly > makes sense and sharing it helps others. (In fact, I didn't know about > KNX and will now look into it!) I'm only writing in case you didn't > know about Home Assistant or hadn't considered it. > > It turns out others have already done things you might find useful: > https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/knx/ > > Greg > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/f58ad761-4254-41bd-8855-fa942b77a45cn%40googlegroups.com.
