openHAB

openHAB is a vendor- and technology-agnostic Open Source automation software for your home. In this one-day workshop we introduce openHAB to participants and show them how to configure and use certain aspects of the software, and in particular, discuss the terminology used by the program.

Our focus will be for the “Intranet” of things, i.e. we will concentrate on keeping openHAB unreacheable from the Internet, but we will talk about accessing data on the Internet.

The goal of the one-day workshop is to familiarize ourselves with parts of the openHAB software required to perform home automation tasks.

Audience

people who are interested in learning about home automation with the openHAB home automation broker.

Voraussetzungen

Participants should be familiar with the command line, and it would be beneficial if they had some experience with Unix/Linux, but Windows is fine as well; we will be using Linux machines for the lab work. Programming knowledge is not necessary, but we will scratch the surface of the openHAB Rules language.

Hands-on labs will be the main focus of the workshop, and participants will get sundry notes along but are expected to take notes themselves.

Inhalt

Introduction

  • A few words about home automation.
  • Introduction to openHAB
  • On Bindings, Things, Channels, Items and Site Maps
  • Examples of openHAB interacting with real-world objects
  • Introducing Rules and Scripts
  • Using the HTTP API to switch openHAB items
  • Accessing HTTP services
  • Persistence and Transforms
  • Overview of installation methods: finding your way
  • Practical exercises with openHAB on Linux

Kurszeiten

Wer möchte, reist bis 22 Uhr am Vortag an und nutzt den Abend bereits zum Fachsimpeln am Kamin oder im Park.

An den Kurstagen dann von 9-18 Uhr (mit 2 Kaffee- und 1 Mittagspause) etwa 60% Schulungen und 40% Übungen. Selbstverständlich arbeitet jeder Teilnehmer am von uns gestellten Notebook oft parallel zum Referenten mit.

Anschließend Abendessen und Angebote für Fachsimpeln, Ausflüge uvm. Wir schaffen eine Atmosphäre, in der Fachleute sich ungezwungen austauschen. Wer das nicht will, wird zu nichts gezwungen und findet auch jederzeit Ruhe.