Hi all,
Setting up a new tank and already have quite a bit of home automation at home with an MQTT broker and InfluxDB for time series. So yeah, kind of a geek :P
I'm interested in getting Apex data and using it in tandem with fusion to control home equipment, provide correlation and just geek out. Example use cases include:
- Start A/C if tank temp is over X and the heater is off
- Start house fan if PH is too high
- Correlate PH with my co2 meter
- etc.
I looked at various ways to do this and since Apex provides a local XML connection with all the data, I'm thinking about writing a telegraf input plugin. This would allow me to get all the raw data as time series in influxdb and real-time data streaming onto my MQTT broker. That way I can achieve all my goals without requiring the Neptune team to provide an API or make any changes.
So a few question for the community:
- Is there something like this already out there I can use/contribute to instead of starting from scratch?
- Is this other people might use? I also thought about creating an XML uploader client that sends data to a server, then create custom dispatch (MQTT, timeseries download, etc)
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