Domoticz Home Automation Workbook

[rwblinn]

Update 20200318
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~430 pages).

@rwblinn
Many thx for sharing. Is it OK to publish a link to your github page on the domoticz wiki ?

YES please - highly appreciated.

[rwblinn]

Update 20200526
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~480 pages).

• NEW: Function Music Player - Control Kodi music player(s) by a single automation event (dzVents Lua) and several virtual sensors.
• NEW: Function Notes: Export the notes file (JSON format) to local file (text format).
• NEW: Function Radiator Thermostat - Simple solution using the Domoticz devices Select Switch & Thermostat with a single automation event (dzVents Lua, no Python plugins required).
• NEW: Explore Kodi Music Player - Explore setting up Kodi Music Player and communicate/control by Domoticz
• NEW: Explore RaspberryMatic - Monitor the CCU Duty Cycle; two separate solutions Node-RED Dashboard and Domoticz Dashboard.
• UPD: Explore Node-RED - Reworked chapter and the example flows; added new flow Domoticz as Node-RED data logger.
• UPD: Explore RaspberryMatic - Release 3.51.6.20200420.

[rwblinn]

Update 20200612
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~530 pages).

• FIX: EMail Notification Error: SMTPSEND.BareLinefeedsAreIllegal with Outlook - reinstalled Domoticz.
• NEW: Explore Events dzVents Lua - Solutions for timer update less one minute (Timer,Device,MQTT).
• NEW: Explore GPIO - Use GPIO with Raspberry Pi Python libraries RPi.GPIO (CLI, Device Actions, Automation Events, Plugins) & GPIOZero (Plugins) and (just to test) Node-RED flow.
• UPD: Function Notes - Explored alternative solution using User Variables (not used further).
• UPD: Explore SQL - Update device examples.

[waaren]

Update 20200612
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~530 pages).

Again; many thanks for this excellent document. I my opinion a "must read" for all new domoticz users and "good to read" for all others

[rwblinn]

Update 20200817
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~575 pages).

• NEW: Function Climate Environment - UV Index & Category, Pollen Index.
• NEW: Function Hardware Monitor - GPIO LCD Display, RGB LED Status Indicator.
• NEW: Explore GPIO - GPIOZero Plugin RGBLED.
• NEW: Explore GPIO - LCD I2C Control (Python script) with examples clock, hardware monitor & timer/device events.
• UPD: Explore ESP Easy - Firmware update, chapter reworked.
• UPD: Explore RaspberryMatic - Release 3.51.6.20200621.
• UPD: User Variables - List using SQLite3.
• UPD: Various smaller enhancements & corrections.
• INF: Domoticz Development Raspberry Pi 3B+ replaced by a Raspberry Pi 4B with Raspberry OS Version 10 (Buster) - no issues during setup encountered.

Many thanks for the great feedback =

[rwblinn]

Update 20200912
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~625 pages).

• NEW: Function BME280 Temp+Hum+Baro - Monitor server room Temp+Hum. Baro for air pressure weather. Timer triggered.
• NEW: Function Garage Door Monitor - Open|Close state provided by Raspberrymatic with Homematic IP SWDM device.
• NEW: Function Key Dates Calendar JSON - New Concept using JSON showing sorted key dates as Alert devices in a room plan. The previous CSV solution kept for reference.
• NEW: Function RaspberryMatic Duty Cycle Monitor - Monitor the Raspberrymatic systemvariable DutyCycle and log error if above threshold.
• NEW: Function Web UI Quick Access Mobile - First version of a customized web frontend to control dedicated functions mainly accessed from mobile smartphones devices.
• NEW: Explore Custom Pages - Example external plugin JustGage embedded in a Bootstrap responsive grid.
• NEW: Explore Custom UI - Create a custom UI. Started by building a Bootstrap grid example based on locally stored latest Bootrap library.
• UPD: Function Air Pressure (BME280) - Automation event trigger changed from device to timer as device changes happen N times/minute. dzVents script reworked. Replaced see below.
• UPD: Function Climate Environment - UV Index & Category, Pollen Index with date; Data in German, Removed city & date in device name.
• UPD: Function Hardware Monitor - GPIO LCD Display with Information System start, stop, CPU Usage&Temp, HDD Usage, Memory Usage.
• UPD: Function River Elbe Tide - Converted solution from Node-RED to Automation Event dzVents Lua.
• UPD: Explore Custom Pages - Reworked chapter & examples; Added hints.
• UPD: Various smaller enhancements & corrections.
• INF: Function Air Pressure (BME280) replaced by function BME280 Temp+Hum+Baro.

[rwblinn]

Update 20201017
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~675 pages).

• NEW: Function Indoor Air Quality - Measure in regular intervals, the IAQ Index, assign to a custom sensor (measuring VOC) and set the color of a Hue White & Color Ambiance bulb accordingly.
• NEW: Function Philips Hue - Various on how to set color using color wheel, use RGB, indicator changing color every min for 2 secs.
• NEW: Function Radiator Thermostat - Solution using Domoticz Thermostat Setpoint device with scripts & automation events (Homematic IP, dzVents Lua, no Python plugins required).
• NEW: Function Remote Control - Integrated Homematic IP 8 buttons device (HmIP-RC8) connected to RaspberryMatic CCU3 triggering a Domoticz Automation Event (dzVents) for specific functions.
• NEW: Explore Events dzVents - Fast Event Less One Minute using HTTP API triggered by Python script with Custom Event dzVents.
• UPD: Explore RaspberryMatic - Release 3.53.30.20200919.
• UPD: Various smaller enhancements & corrections.
• INF: Function Web UI Quick Access Mobile - Not updated further as replaced by dedicated solution Domoticz Quick Access Mobile.

[rwblinn]

Update 20201025
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~700 pages).

• NEW: Function Battery Status: Daily check & notify for all devices (Domoticz & External Systems) the battery level against a threshold set via user variable.
• NEW: Function Custom Settings: Custom page to change the value of selective user variables.
• NEW: Function Device Status: Custom page to quickly view the status, i.e. all device attributes, of a used device.
• NEW: Document IDEAS.md to capture any ideas which might get implemented in the workbook.
• UPD: Domoticz Quick Access Mobile. See CHANGELOG.md.
• UPD: Document TODO.md to only keep the action for the next workbook version. Any other to capture in IDEAS.md.
• UPD: Various smaller updates & corrections.
• UPD: Post #1 with latest readme information.

[HansieNL]

Thanks again. Just read about sorting Custom Menu and changed app.js. Let's see what else I can find to change to my needs.

[rwblinn]

Update 20201122
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~730 pages).

• NEW: Explore Custom Charts - First Custom Pages with Highcharts & Google Charts embedded for single & multiple devices (Info).
• UPD: Function Temperature & Humidity (TFA TS34C) - Hint on how to replace the batteries and keep the log history.
• UPD: Various smaller updates & corrections.
• UPD: Post #1 with latest readme information.

[brommetje]

Great work @rwblinn

Question did you already do something with Grafana instead of Google Charts?

Or is somebody else using Grafana and want to share there dashboard?

Keep on the great work.

[rwblinn]

Update 20201215
Domoticz Home Automation Workbook (PDF, ~790 pages).

• NEW: Utility Dashboard (Info) - Process Engineering type solution (SCADA) using Grafana & FlowCharting plugin for monitoring Heater equipment (Power & Water in progress).
• NEW: Weather Forecast - Custom Page with Highcharts Custom Chart 9-DAY FORECAST for a selected location with data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Meteorologisk).
• NEW: Explore Grafana & InfluxDB - Basic dashboard with two panels displaying gauges & line charts for 3 devices. Explored InfluxLink; dzVents InfluxDB HTTP API using curl.
• UPD: Explore RaspberryMatic - Thermostat HmIP-eTRV-2 Script handling multiple data point requests for multiple devices.
• UPD: Explore RaspberryMatic - Release 3.53.34.20201121.
• UPD: Various smaller enhancements & corrections.
• FIX: Function Hardware Monitor - fixed get RAM data for Raspberry Pi OS.

Many thanks for feedback...