Please note that this repository is discontinued! All development is moved to https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons and there at addons/binding/org.openhab.binding.vallox.
So this standalone repository is discontinued. At the moment I'm in the process of get the first version of the binding officially added to the openhab-addons. I have the first pull request here https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/pull/1560
For the time being, you can obtain the bundle from the pull request from the Eclipse IOT Market Place https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/vallox-central-venting-unit-binding
Interface to a vallox central venting unit.
Tested with
This Openhab2 bundle so far only works with a RS485-to-ethernet gateway. It does not support a local serial interface of the device executing OH2.
I do not have any experience with direct serial RS485 communication under Java and do not have any device for testing it. So if you can contribute any code for direct RS485 serial write and read, I might easily merge that.
Configure the serial interface such that it acts as TCP server on some port of your choice. Configure the serial side as
mvn package
target
directory the bundle binary org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.vallox-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
will be compileddeploy
directorybundle:list
, it should show a Vallox
bundle in active stateONLINE
; if not, go into the details of the thing. The status there should include some error message.The binding currently supports the following Features
Note that there might be more properties that can be read or written which might be not implemented yet. Contributions welcome. Also not all channels are perfectly documented. See thing-types.xml for details.