Hi,
I am trying to upgrade my emonpi. I’ve already installed a RPICT4T4 which works fine.
No I like to add more temperature sensors. On a 2nd Raspi I got 10 DS18B20 working on gpio4. Now I want to connect at the emon-raspi and emoncms. I am wondering how to configure '/home/pi/data/emonhub.conf` that these temperatures are availble as nodes inside emoncms. In the documentation I don’t find advise for that matter.
My question: How to setup emonhub.conf to read data from gpio directly?
Regards
The quick answer is “you can’t!”, but it is possible in-directly.
There is currently no emonhub interfacer published to do what you ask. I have used custom scripts to read ds18b20’s via the Pi’s GPIO and submit via an emonhub socket interfacer. I recently had 88 ds18b20’s connected to a Pi via 8 separate buses on 8 GPIO pins so that all 88 sensors could be read at full resolution comfortably within 10secs.
If this method is of interest to you I can perhaps share some code to get you started.
It sounds exactly to my plan. I have 8 ds18b20 on a single GPIO. Until today I have no problems. I have cable length between 1 and 5 m on this finger.
I have a small script from somewhere which prints the temperature on screen. So, I proceed to build a dictionary and send the data like described by the Input-API.
What would be the best method in this case? If you have some hints or a snipped for that, I would be glad.
Just fire it via MQTT with a base topic of emon.
I’m sorry. I don’t see your point. I have absolutly no idea how to configure and perform this. Maybe tomorrow I have enough time to study.
Search for “Python MQTT post”. It will throw up this (these tutorials are pretty good) How to Use The Paho MQTT Python Client - Beginners Guide
Use the base topic emon and the sensor data either as a JSON object or individual values with their own topics. You will need the username an password for the MQTT broker on the EmonPi (it’s in the docs somewhere).
Never searched outside of this forum for that. Thanks:+1: