Smart home/electricity open standard

Smart home/electricity open standard

Elazar Leibovich elazarl at gmail.com
Sun May 21 15:45:29 IDT 2017


OpenHAB is a software that uses many protocols to control smart devices.
If you have experience with some type of smart electricity, I'm sure it'll
be interesting to everyone to hear it.
Thanks,

On Sun, May 21, 2017, 3:40 PM Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:

> There are many implementation and non of them are open standard (iirc)
> e.g - https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-protocols/
>
> If you looking to start smart home project, you should probably start with
> the server
> which will manage and will the intermediate for all protocols and devices
> -- one of them call OpenHAB <https://www.openhab.org/>
>
> some devices will require a firmware flashing to make them to work with
> your "cloud" and not the vendor.
>
> one popular and cheep devices to start with are the Sonoff switches.
>
> --
> Rabin
>
> On 21 May 2017 at 15:26, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That it would be reasonable to interact with it with open source tools or
>> at least from open source OS, and that I would be able to purchase hardware
>> from multiple vendors.
>> It's not strictly requires an open protocol, but it's a good
>> approximation.
>> Read what I need to reasonably work with KNX, it's not just the wire
>> protocol.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 21, 2017, 2:59 PM Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:
>>
>>> Please clarify what do you mean by "open standard for smart home"
>>> are you referring to the communication between devices ?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rabin
>>>
>>> On 21 May 2017 at 14:29, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is there some open standard for smart home.
>>>> The only thing I've seen which is close to open standard is KNX.
>>>> But I'm not sure if there's a free/open source implementation of the
>>>> standard ETS5 software used to configure KNX modules.
>>>> Is the files specifying KNX hardware data, e.g., vd2, knxprod
>>>> https://www.hqs.sbt.siemens.com/cps_product_data/data/search_find_en.htm are
>>>> open standard?
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone on this list know KNX?
>>>> There are a few related open-source project, but I'm not sure if
>>>> they're indeed working correctly, nor do I have sufficient understanding of
>>>> the ETS/KNX configuration.
>>>> Is there a more open standard for smart electricity?
>>>>
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