MQTT Roller Shutter

#1

Hello Matt,
I’ve watched almost all of Your videos and thanks to You I’ve bought Pi3 and started OpenHab adventure :smile:

I’d like to propose another build: roller shutter with MQTT support.
There are couple of boards I found online:


https://supla.zamel.pl/produkt/srw-01/

Idea is to create a tiny board that can be put in the wall that will allow controlling outdoor roller shutters.
I’d like to be able to auto calibrate it (using for example end stops), be able to connect manual buttons (up, down, stop) and of course have MQTT support to connect it to OpenHab.

My main goal is to monitor temperature inside, temperature outside and sun light (lux) and then based on some rules I want to open/close roller shutters to control temperature in my home.
Another cool feature would be auto close when You start playing movie in Your living room :slight_smile:

@mattkaczynski Please let me know what do You think about that idea.

#2

I’m fairly new to this working with openHAB and Matt and willing to explorer more of how the .json works with other nodes. You might take a look at Node-red here: https://nodered.org
Sounds like these folks have used nodered to create some flows using openHAB to control things. The one person talks about using the nodered with a raspberry pi and got great results. Take a look: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/52z34b/a_tinkerers_setup_nodered_mqtt_zway/
Good luck and happy playing!

#3

@williambs50 thanks for the link :slight_smile:
The code isn’t a problem. My main concern is the device that I can use to control the motor of roller shutters and how to control that device from openHab.
@mattkaczynski created a couple of cool devices, so maybe another one could be used to control roller shutter.
I’ve recently found Shelly devices on the internet. Maybe they can be used?

Any hints?