Bunch of Senors/Actors planned | Which way to go

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Hello,

in the last months i started with some different home automation stuff.
Currently i have two installations:
Garden Irrigation System
Raspberry Pi1 with Domotzic and a 4way Relay for controllig magnetic valves. I fetch some weather data from wunderground and also can use the Pi (installed in my garage) as a Radio for my garden

Home Automatic wie Pimatic
Because i’m not very happy with Domotzic (bad rule enginge (Blockly), if it gets a bit more complex you have to script in LUA) i installed a second Pi (pi3) with Pimatic. I already integrated my blindes and plugs via 433 Mhz. I also love rule engine: Simple but able to handle also complex situations.

Now, i still have tons of china sensors and electronics at home which i like to use. But i’m not sure how to integrate them in Pimatic. Most of them is MySensor stuff (Ardunio Micro/Mini, NRF24L01+ transmitter) or NodeMCU with tons of sensors, transistors and else.

The question i have is how to connect the stuff? MySensors Serial Gateway or MQTT?
I like the idea of MQTT, but is MQTT able to handle Sensors and Actors?

Thank You!

@Raducanu
Yes MQTT is capable of sensors and actors. Just search the forum for some examples and more info about that

Which magnetic valves do you use?

I tried MQTT with ESPEasy and a pulse sensor. The problem is that ESPEasy (Firmware for ESP8266) does not forward Pulse counts via MQTT. So i’m not sure if its a problem of ESPEasy or MQTT.

I use Hunter Magnet Valves. http://www.hunterindustries.com/de/product/ventile/pgv Got them for 18€/each from amazon

@Raducanu I think this is a error of ESPEasy. mqtt will forward all data it gets, but when espeasy does not forward or push this to a topic, it will not work…

@Raducanu
Hey, with which version you tested it. It recently changed. But I have not tested MQTT.
https://github.com/ESP8266nu/ESPEasy/pull/40

MQTT Plugin for Pimatic: https://github.com/wutu/pimatic-mqtt

It was R108. If you check http://www.esp8266.nu/index.php/EasyProtocols
you see at the bottom of the page that there is no MQTT support for Pulse Counters

I found nothing about Pulse counters.

@Raducanu

@Raducanu said in Bunch of Senors/Actors planned | Which way to go:

I tried MQTT with ESPEasy and a pulse sensor. The problem is that ESPEasy (Firmware for ESP8266) does not forward Pulse counts via MQTT. So i’m not sure if its a problem of ESPEasy or MQTT.

Pls check last version of ESPEASY, you can receive MQTT messages (OpenHAB MQTT) from the pulse sensor (Count/Total/Time). I am using it right now and it works super fine