MagicMirror Pimatic (Home Automation) Dashboard

Mr.Sponti

First of all a big, very big thank you to Michael Teeuw!!!

MagicMirror is really one of the greatest Raspberry projects followed by ‘pimatic - home automation controller’, another amazing Raspberry project. So far as I know both are developments from Dutchmen.
After studying the documentation and several MM-moduls, I decided to use MagicMirror to setup a central dashboard for my family. Beside customizing of the standard moduls I used the modul ‘MMM-DWD-WarnWeather by LukeSkywalker92’ as a base to create a new modul for retrieving data from my pimatic home controller.
I’m a complete novice to nodejs and all this web stuff, but my programming skill were sufficient to modify the Warnweather module and to integrate the the pimatic socket API.

And voila, here is my dashboard providing now actual information from the internet plus status information from my IoT devices controlled by pimatic.

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Special thanks, to those people taken time to document and to publish there solutions.
(As soon as I’ve learned to use git, I will also publish the pimatic modul)

Best regards and a happy new year!

cowboysdude

@Mr.Sponti Very nice! :) It’s where I’m headed…

binderth

@Mr.Sponti nice! just curious, why didn’t you use the “MMM-REST” module for your pimatic integration? I’m about to display some of the exact same Information (but from openHAB as a source for my home automation). So I wonder, if there were any impediments for using MMM-REST.

Thanks,
Thomas.

sero

@binderth
When using REST you need to poll / ask pimatic for updated values in a regular interval. With WebSockets pimatic can push changed values. This is less overhead and minimizes delays.

Mr.Sponti

@binderth
as @sero mentioned, the Advantage over the socket-API is that you get live events, if something in pimatic changes.
In addition I use the “MMM-REST” (push) module for displaying selected status messages in case a specific pimatic rule is fullfilled.

binderth

@sero said in MagicMirror Pimatic (Home Automation) Dashboard:

@binderth
When using REST you need to poll / ask pimatic for updated values in a regular interval. With WebSockets pimatic can push changed values. This is less overhead and minimizes delays.

@Mr.Sponti said in MagicMirror Pimatic (Home Automation) Dashboard:

@binderth
as @sero mentioned, the Advantage over the socket-API is that you get live events, if something in pimatic changes.
In addition I use the “MMM-REST” (push) module for displaying selected status messages in case a specific pimatic rule is fullfilled.

Thanks for the update. So, I think, I’ll do the same for my openHAB items, as openHAB can also push item changes through an API to MM. oh, I love challenges, since I never had done something in node.js! ;)

shgmongohh

Hi,

Nice mirror. Could you please provide your Module? I want to use it for my own pimatic controller.

Thank you in advance.

Sebastian.

Mr.Sponti

@shgmongohh - Unfortunately I’m neither familiar with git nor with javascript or web style sheets. Based on my old school programming skills from the early eighties I studied several moduls and created 2 new moduls.

The first one connect to pimatic via the WebSocket API and receives on device attribute changes all new values which I compare to device attribute definitions placed in the magic mirror config.js. If a device mach the new attribute, it is shown in the notification board (similar and based on modul MMM-DWD-WarnWeather by LukeSkywalker92). My modul also consist on 3 files:

Pimatic Notification Borad:

MMM-Pimatic.js
node_helper.js
MMM-Pimatic.css
icons/icons-pimatic.png

The second modul displays temperature devices and consists of 2 files and requires that the first modul is running, as it receives the pimatic attribute changes from the node-helper of the first modul by waiting on “notificationReceived”.

Pimatic Temperature Devices:

MMM-M2-Pimatic.css
MMM-M2-Pimatic.js

If someone could create the git repository and crosscheck the code I can provide the files by sending a zip.archiv.

I would be glad to see additional ideas/moduls dealing with pimatic.

Zinkeler

Hello,
please can someone tell me how i can install MagicMirror and Pimatic together.
If i install MagicMirror then i can´t install pimatic (needs a lower version of node).
If i install pimatic then i cant´t install MagicMirror (needs a higher version of node).
:-(
For MagicMirror i used the latest version.
For Pimatic is used the latest version.
For Raspberry i installed Raspberry stretch

Mr.Sponti

@Zinkeler - Sorry, but I can’t help here. I’m running 2 pi’s with separate installations of pimatic and MagicMirror. The first Raspberry hosts pimatic including several interfaces (Homeduino, MySensors, arexx temperature logger) and the second is mounted behind a HDMI Monitor hanging at the wall of my diningroom.

Zinkeler

@Mr.Sponti - thank you for your answer.
I now setup a second PI and installed Pimatic.
On both PI´s i installd socket.io and socket.io-Client.
My second pi works fine with pimatic and my first Pi works with MagicMirror.
I installed your modul as you described.

If i run a test on my MagicMirror-PI:

pi@raspberrypi3:~ $ node testpim.js
connected
[ { id: 'temperatur',
    name: 'Temperatur',
    template: 'device',
    attributes: [ [Object], [Object] ],
    actions: [],
    config:
     { class: 'HomeduinoRFWeatherStation',
       protocols: [Object],
       values: [Object],
       processingTemp: '$value',
       processingHum: '$value',
       xAttributeOptions: [],
       id: 'temperatur',
       name: 'Temperatur' },
...```
i see, that socket works too.
But on my MagicMirror is only get the message "Connecting to pimatic ..." 
 config.js:
*{
            module: 'MMM-M1-Pimatic',
            position: 'bottom_center',
            header: 'PIMATIC',
            host : 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx',
            port : 80,
            user : 'user',
            passwd : 'passwort',
            config: {
                device: [
                    { 
                        name: 'Schrankschalter',
                        icon: 'icon-Default',
                        attributeName: 'schrankschalter.state',
                        defaultValue: false,
                        notification : 'Eingeschaltet'
                    },
                ],
            },
        },*
What am i doing wrong??
Thanks
P.S. are you german, because than it´s easier to talk about :-)

yawns

Ich weiß, dass github in der Readme genau das zeigt, was du probierst, aber meiner Meinung nach ist das falsch.

{
            module: 'MMM-M1-Pimatic',
            position: 'bottom_center',
            header: 'PIMATIC',
            config: {
                host : 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx',
                port : 80,
                user : 'user',
                passwd : 'passwort',
                device: [
                    { 
                        name: 'Schrankschalter',
                        icon: 'icon-Default',
                        attributeName: 'schrankschalter.state',
                        defaultValue: false,
                        notification : 'Eingeschaltet'
                    },
                ],
            },
        }

Meiner Meinung nach müssen host, port, user und passwd in den config Bereich.

Zinkeler

@yawns
Vielen Dank !!
Genau das war das Problem, jetzt klappte es :-)

Peter

Who can help me with this?
I am running MM on one RPI and Pimatic on another one.
But I have no idea how to get the information of Pimatic on the MM screen.
If somebody can tell me what to install where …
Thanks in advance!
Peter

Mr.Sponti

@Peter
I’ve reworked my MMM-Pimatic modul but need now to adjust the description on gihub. The modul connects to a pimatic server to listen on device attribute changes and displays changes as notifications on the MagicMirror screen. Temperature values can be displayed in a separate table. As soon as I’ve completed the Readme, I will send you a message.

Peter

@Mr.Sponti thanks!
Would be great!
Peter

Mr.Sponti

@Peter Here you can find the latest version of my MMM-Pimatic module. The README isn’t yet covering all features but should be sufficient for the installation and basic configuration of the module.
Please feel free to contact me if you need help to get it running.

Peter

@Mr.Sponti thanks!
I will try it as soon as possible.
I will let you know the results!
Peter

Peter

pi@magicrpi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Pimatic $ npm install
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/node_modules/node_helper/package.json'
npm WARN modules No description
npm WARN modules No repository field.
npm WARN modules No README data
npm WARN modules No license field.

And I have no idea what to do (how to install) socket.io-client.
Peter

Mr.Sponti

@Peter , you can ignore these Warnings, but you need to install the socket.io-client modul:

cd  ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Pimatic
npm install socket.io-client