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# Gardena Binding
This is the binding for Gardena smart system (opens new window). This binding allows you to integrate, view and control Gardena smart system devices in the openHAB environment.
# Supported Things
Devices connected to Gardena smart system, currently:
| Thing type | Name |
|---|---|
| bridge | smart Garden Gateway |
| mower | smart Sileno(+) Mower |
| watering_computer | smart Water Control |
| sensor | smart Sensor |
| electronic_pressure_pump | smart Pressure Pump |
| power | smart Power |
| ic24 | smart Irrigation Control |
The schedules are not yet integrated!
# Discovery
An account must be specified, all things for an account are discovered automatically.
# Account Configuration
There are several settings for an account:
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| yes | The email address for logging into the Gardena smart system | |
| password | yes | The password for logging into the Gardena smart system |
| sessionTimeout | no | The timeout in minutes for a session to Gardena smart system (default = 30) |
| connectionTimeout | no | The timeout in seconds for connections to Gardena smart system (default = 10) |
| refresh | no | The interval in seconds for refreshing the data from Gardena smart system (default = 60) |
Example
# Things
Minimal Thing configuration:
Bridge gardena:account:home [ email="...", password="..." ]
Configuration with refresh:
Bridge gardena:account:home [ email="...", password="...", refresh=30 ]
Configuration of multiple bridges:
Bridge gardena:account:home1 [ email="...", password="..." ]
Bridge gardena:account:home2 [ email="...", password="..." ]
Once a connection to an account is established, connected Things are discovered automatically.
Alternatively, you can manually configure a Thing:
Bridge gardena:account:home [ email="...", password="..." ]
{
Thing mower myMower [ deviceId="c81ad682-6e45-42ce-bed1-6b4eff5620c8" ]
}
# Items
In the items file, you can link items to channels of your Things:
Number Battery_Level "Battery [%d %%]" {channel="gardena:mower:home:myMower:battery#level"}
# Sensor refresh
You can send a REFRESH command to items linked to these Sensor channels:
- ambient_temperature#temperature
- soil_temperature#temperature
- humidity#humidity
- light#light
In the console:
smarthome:send ITEM_NAME REFRESH
In scripts:
import org.eclipse.smarthome.core.types.RefreshType
...
sendCommand(ITEM_NAME, RefreshType.REFRESH)
# Examples
// smart Water Control
Switch Watering_Valve "Valve" { channel="gardena:watering_computer:home:myValve:outlet#valve_open" }
Number Watering_Duration "Duration [%d min]" { channel="gardena:watering_computer:home:myValve:outlet#button_manual_override_time" }
// smart Power Plug
String Power_Timer "Power Timer [%s]" { channel="gardena:power:home:myPowerplug:power#power_timer" }
// smart Irrigation Control
Number Watering_Timer_1 "Watering Timer 1 [%d min] { channel="gardena:ic24:home:myIrrigationController:watering#watering_timer_1" }
// smart Pressure Pump
Number Pump_Timer "Pump Timer [%d min] { channel="gardena:electronic_pressure_pump:home:myPressurePump:manual_watering#manual_watering_timer" }
Watering_Duration.sendCommand(30) // 30 minutes
Watering_Valve.sendCommand(ON)
Power_Timer.sendCommand("on")
Power_Timer.sendCommand("off")
Power_Timer.sendCommand("180") // on for 180 seconds
Watering_Timer_1.sendCommand(0) // turn off watering
Watering_Timer_1.sendCommand(30) // turn on for 30 minutes
Pump_Timer.sendCommand(0) // turn the pump off
Pump_Timer.sendCommand(30) // turn the pump on for 30 minutes
# Debugging and Tracing
If you want to see what's going on in the binding, switch the loglevel to TRACE in the Karaf console
log:set TRACE org.openhab.binding.gardena
Set the logging back to normal
log:set INFO org.openhab.binding.gardena
Note: The Online/Offline status is not always valid. I'm using the connection_status property Gardena sends for each device, but it seems not to be very reliable.
My watering control for example shows offline, but it is still working.
I have to press the button on the device, then the status changed to online.
My mower always shows online, regardless of whether it is switched on or off.
This is not a binding issue, it must be fixed by Gardena.
When the binding sends a command to a device, it communicates only with the Gardena online service. It has not control over, whether the command is sent from the online service via your gateway to the device. It is the same as if you send the command in the Gardena App.