Vaillant eBUS hardware adapter (ebusd software) Thread

For me it looks like this. I have flows for every ebus topic I’m interested in. As an example:

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The initial node listens to the desired topic:

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The function node extracts the value from the payload (slightly different for different measured parameters)

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The MQTT out doe then sends it to the emon topic to be picked up by emoncms:

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I then have polling flows with different intervals for different values I want to extract, here for example every 30s polling for integral, flow and return temp:

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This just sends a regular /get to the topics that should be updated

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My /etc/default/ebusd line is:

EBUSD_OPTS="–device=ens:/dev/ttyACM0 --scanconfig --configpath=/home/pi/ebusd_config/ --pollinterval=1 --accesslevel=* --mqtthost=localhost --mqttport=1883 --mqttuser=emonpi --mqttpass=emonpimqtt2016 --mqttint=/etc/ebusd/mqtt-hassio.cfg --mqttjson

The ebus adapter v5 is plugged into the emonpi.

Those are basically the building blocks I used. There are some more additional things like polling specific values more often when the compressor is active (based on my own power measurements using a Shelly) or updating the desired flow temperature as soon as the reported outside temperature changes.

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I’d be happy to contribute to a wiki/howto document.

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