raspberry pi data

[fischb22]

greetings,

i have a couple of raspberry pi units collecting data around the house, some log to google sheets, others do not.

is there a clean way i can get data from the Pi into a homeseer device? I didnt readily see anything on the plugins, and a forum search returned too much on the homeseer running on the pi, then anything else.

thanks!

[feman]

Any ideas?

[Dweber85rc]

Well, there is the raspberry IO Plugin? https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/an...sting?t=183857

[dbvanb]

I have used MQTT and the mcsMQTT plugin to get data from a raspberry pi to Homeseer. The mcsMQTT plugin will create Homeseer devices. Works great.
I use it to send data from my HVAC system to Homseer, IE mostly zone temperatures, as well as environmental temperatures.
I also use esp8266 boards to send other data to Homeseer via mqtt, ie motion, temp, humidity, RFID chip reader data.
I also use the raspberryIO plugin, but that only gives digital data, ie on, off. It can be used to control relays as well however

Bruce

[Guest]

Seconded. the use of MQTT and mcsMQTT plugin I use that as well.

There are two packages in raspbian you need

mosquitto
mosquitto-clients

You will need to install a single instance of mosquitto as a broker somewhere on your local network. The mcsMQTT plugin connects to this broker.

Then install the mosquitto-clients package on each pi producing data and use the mosquitto_pub command from a bash script to publish the data to the broker which will then be available to the mcsMQTT plugin

[dbvanb]

The mcsMQTT plugin can act like a mqtt (mosquito) server/broker, so you don't absolutely need another one, but I run one on the raspberry pi that collects my HVAC data

Bruce