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| Your home, most probably, has some kind of heating system for those months of the year when the outside temperature is too low to be comfortable. At least, in most of the world, every home has some kind of heating system. Of course, then, why don't we make it smart? | Your home, most probably, has some kind of heating system for those months of the year when the outside temperature is too low to be comfortable. At least, in most of the world, every home has some kind of heating system. Of course, then, why don't we make it smart? | ||
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| The basic logic is simple: whenever at least ONE thermo-valve is open (heating), the generators should be operative. Only when ALL the thermo-valves are closed (idle), then the generators can be turned off (actually the pellet is not turned on or off, but switched between minimum to modulation...). | The basic logic is simple: whenever at least ONE thermo-valve is open (heating), the generators should be operative. Only when ALL the thermo-valves are closed (idle), then the generators can be turned off (actually the pellet is not turned on or off, but switched between minimum to modulation...). | ||
| - | The point now is how to connect Home Assistant with the OrangePi Zero... Well, using [[homeautomation: | + | The point now is how to connect Home Assistant with the OrangePi Zero... Well, using [[homeautomation:protocols: |
| I have rewritten the OrangePi Zero code to become an MQTT client and connect to the Home Assistant broker, this is pretty simple following the Mosquitto documentation and example code. | I have rewritten the OrangePi Zero code to become an MQTT client and connect to the Home Assistant broker, this is pretty simple following the Mosquitto documentation and example code. | ||