openHAB TinkerForge - RED Brick Weather Station

Description

This project is meant to be used on a TinkerForge RED Brick and the TinkerForge Weather Station Kit.

The project contains a set of configuration files for openHAB and the TinkerForgeBinding. The script bin/weatherstation.py adapts and installs the configuration files. To achieve this weatherstation.py connects to the brickd, enumerates the devices and searches for the uids of an Ambient Light, a Humidity, a Barometer and a LCD20x4 Bricklet and adapts the items configuration accordingly.

Installation

• login as user tf
• switch to root: sudo su -
• Install openHAB and the TinkerForge Binding if not yet done
  • echo 'deb http://repository-openhab.forge.cloudbees.com/release/1.6.1/apt-repo/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab.list
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get install openhab-runtime openhab-addon-binding-tinkerforge
• clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/theoweiss/tinkerforge-RED-Brick.git
• execute weatherstation.py: ./tinkerforge-RED-Brick/bin/weatherstation.py
• start openHAB if not yet running (the startup will need some minutes be patient!)
  • /etc/init.d/openhab start
• if openHAB is already running the configuration will be automatically reloaded, you do not need to restart openHAB!

Use It

• point your browser (unfortunately only webkit based browsers are supported) to
  • http://${red-brick-ip}:8080/openhab.app?sitemap=tf
  • with zeroconf: http://red-brick.local:8080/openhab.app?sitemap=tf
• use iOS or Android openHAB app