Domoticz on OpenWrt

“Domoticz is a very light weight home automation system that lets you monitor and configure miscellaneous devices, including lights, switches, various sensors/meters like temperature, rainfall, wind, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, electricity usage/production, gas consumption, water consumption and many more. Notifications/alerts can be sent to any mobile device.”

Package was added by this commit: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/commit/042933714af6440eb38728b5ade18d5d70855ee4

And big update was made by this commit: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/6091

First update your Sources.

opkg update

Domoticz has define all needed requirements. The size of package is about 9 MB. So just simply install it

opkg install domoticz

Configuration file for domoticz is in /etc/init.d/domoticz The default domoticz configuration is:

domoticz.@domoticz[0]=domoticz
domoticz.@domoticz[0].disabled='1'
domoticz.@domoticz[0].loglevel='1'
domoticz.@domoticz[0].syslog='daemon'
domoticz.@domoticz[0].sslwww='0'
domoticz.@domoticz[0].userdata='/var/lib/domoticz/'

The configuration of Domoticz is done by webinterface on port 8080 e.g http://192.168.1.1:8080

To check how it works you can monitor your device. To do this add “Hardware” - Motherboard sensors

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Hardware_Setup

The notifications via email are not working because, by default the libcurl library is not compiled with snmp support. The System Alive Checker requires root rights https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/System_Alive_Checker_(Ping)

• [0] https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/
• [1] https://www.domoticz.com/forum/