MagicMirror Pimatic (Home Automation) Dashboard

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

ganther

Hello,

I also installed your great module to observe the pimatic-sensor data on my MM.
The normal systemsensor-temps are perfectly shown. But how can I get the values of my dht22-sensor because the class dhtsensor has no attributes. It delivers 2 values (Temp and humidity).

Is there any solution?

Thanks a lot.
Sandy

Mr.Sponti

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

dhtsensor

Hi Sandy, how is your dht22-sensor connected? Is the sensor direct connected to the Rasperry GPIO pins and you use the plugin “dht-sensors”?
What shows up for the sensor if you create a listing of “variables” from your pimatic menu?

ganther

@Mr.Sponti
Thanks for your response.
Yes, i use the dht-sensors plugin. It is directly connected to GPIO-Pin22

Here is a Screenshot of a part of the device-config. Perhaps it‘s helpful.

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Thank you
Sandy

ganther

And the second menu area:

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ganther

Oh sorry, I didn‘t recognize the variables menue entry before oO🤦‍♂️

It shows $dht22.temperature and .humidity

I will try these ones in config.