a mqtt client for belkin ups via belkin bulldog plus web server
Functions:
Reads, parses and trasforms into mqtt topics and publish 4 webpages taken from the belkin bulldog plus ups software.
Create OPENHAB2 things, items and stimap files
Prerequisites:
Belkin ups connected via USB or RS232 to a windows machine
Belkin bulldog plus ups software with webserver enabled
A machine with python 3.7, paho.mqtt and beautifulsoup4 (it can be any kind of hw supporing python (i tested it on windows and debian machines)
Installation:
copy upsqtt.py and upsqtt.conf in a directory
optionally you can add a cron schedule on linux or ar scheduled job on windows
Running for the first time
launch python upsqtt.py, it has 2 command line options:
-f only create openhab files
-b create broker definition in UPS.things file, only if also -f is specified on command line
it will create 3 files, you can place them into the appropiate directory under openhab
Running
launch python upsqtt.py
optionally on linux you can create a cron job to start the script every x seconds/minutes/hours the same on windows.
UPSQTT.CONF
this is the configuration files, it uses an ini like structure:
[upsqtt]
name=belkinups <------
[server]
address = 10.11.12.13 <---- address of the machine running bulldog
port = 6969 <---- bulldog webserver port
user = admin <---- bulldog webserver auth user
secret = palabrasegreta <--- bulldog webserver password
[broker]
address = broker.example.com <------ broker address
port = 1833 <------ broker port
user = mqttUser <------ broker user
secret = palabrasegreta2 <------ broker password
bridge = yourbridge <------ openhab2 bridge name (see notes)
keepalive = 30000 <------ broker configuration parameters
reconnect = 60000
qos = 0
secure = false
retain = false
clientID = mqttUPSClient
root_topic = F6C800xxUNV <------- root topic to publish, all the topics published will start with i.e. F6C800xxUNV/status
notes: if you already have an mqtt broker bridge defined in openhab please do use -b option and fill broker parameters with the same parameters used in the things file you already have.
in other words use -b option only if this is the first mqtt bridge you are defining in openhab2