Tag: openhab

Automatic Backup of my Home Automation System (OpenHAB, InfluxDB, Grafana, Node-RED, MonogoDB)

Bikash Narayan Panda
RAK831 LoRa Gateway

I use different tools like OpenHAB, InfluxDB, Grafana, Node-RED, MonogoDB etc. in my Home Automation System. There is always a chance any tool may crash or the server may crash or HDD may fail or due to some other causes can lead to data loss. This has happened to me earlier also where I again had to start my setup from scratch but it taught me a lesson, backups are really important. So I went ahead and wrote a simple shell script to do the backup tasks automatically with a…

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Wi-FI Remote for MI TV using ESP8266

Bikash Narayan Panda

I got an MI Smart TV and was pretty much interested in including that in my Home Automation system (OpenHAB). It is supposed to be controlled so that it can be turned on or off based on profile and scene. Although the TV does support MI TV remote over Wi-Fi, it is not able to turn on the TV when it is off. The easiest way to do so is to replicate the remote to an ESP8266 board is having an IR LED and Wi-Fi. By using it everything that…

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OpenHAB2 Installation on Ubuntu Server (16.04)

Bikash Narayan Panda
Ubuntu and OpenHAB

 In my last post about the installation of Zulu JDK to Ubuntu 16.04 server, I covered how to do so and was required so that OpenHAB can run on my server. This post is in the line of my last post and is about the installation of OpenHAB to ubuntu 16.04 server. This post is all about installing OpenHAB to Ubuntu 16.04 using the manual method. I tried with apt-get, but that didn’t work for me.   STEP 1 (Download OpenHAB runtime): Navigate to a folder where you can download files…

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OpenHAB: Installation on Windows for Home Automation

OpenHAB on Windows

OpenHAB is a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for making home automation easier. This video is around how to get started with OpenHAB 2. In fact, this is going to be a series of video around it as I have completely shifted towards OpenHAB for my home automation system. Earlier actually I was using my own automation system built on PHP, JAVA, and MongoDB and it was becoming hard for me to manage that and so I thought of getting into already existing automation system and with…

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