Seneye Binding

This binding integrates the Seneye aquarium monitoring system (opens new window).

Introduction

The seneye monitor monitors what is happening inside your aquarium to ensure that the aquatic life remains healthy. The monitor allows you to continuously track the changes in the water parameters, alerting you to the problems before they affect the fish.

At least one Seneye monitor is required (Home / pond or reef (opens new window)) and the measure results must be synced to the seneye cloud by using a seneye web server (see shop (opens new window), there is one for wifi and one for a wired network) Each monitor is represented by one seneye thing.

Supported Things

This binding provides one thing type: 'seneye'. You can have multiple seneye devices in your home, just make sure that your aquarium_name is properly set for each seneye thing.

Discovery

Discovery is not supported, the seneye monitor must be configured manually.

Thing Configuration

The following settings must be configured in order to make your seneye binding work:

Setting
aquarium_name	The name of the aquarium, as specified in seneye.me (opens new window).
	Useful to distinguish multiple seneye installations.
username	Your login name for seneye.me (opens new window)
password	Your password for seneye.me (opens new window)
poll_time	How often (in minutes) should the seneye account be checked.

Channels

The following channels are supported:

Channel Type ID	Item Type	Description
temperature	String	The water temperature
ph	String	The PH level of the water
nh3	String	The level of Ammonia (NH3) in the water
nh4	String	The level of Ammonium (NH4) in the water
O2	String	The level of oxygene in the water
lux	String	The lux level of your aquarium lightning, if available
par	String	The par level of your aquarium lightning, if available
kelvin	String	The kelvin level of your aquarium lightning, if available
lastreading	DateTime	The moment when the last readings are received from the monitor
slideexpires	DateTime	The moment when the current slide will expire
wrongslide	String	The Slide is not valid (normally expired)
slideserial	String	The serial number of the Slide
outofwater	String	The Slide is reporting being out of the water
disconnected	String	The Seneye has not uploaded any updates recently

Full example

A manual configuration through a things/seneye.things file could look like this:

Thing seneye:monitor:mySeneye "Seneye" @ "Living Room" [aquarium_name="MyAquarium", username="mail@example.com", password="xxx", poll_time=5]

A manual configuration through a demo.items file could look like this:

String mySeneye_Temperature  "Temp [%s] C"        { channel="seneye:monitor:mySeneye:temperature" }
String mySeneye_PH           "PH [%s]"            { channel="seneye:monitor:mySeneye:ph" }
String mySeneye_NH3          "NH3 [%s]"           { channel="seneye:monitor:mySeneye:nh3" }

The sitemap could look like this:

sitemap home label="My home" {
    Frame label="Aquarium" {
        Text item=mySeneye_Temperature label="Temperature [%.1f °C]" icon="temperature"
        Text item=mySeneye_PH label="PH [%.1f]" icon="water"
        Text item=mySeneye_NH3 label="NH3 [%.1f]" icon="water"
    }
}

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