Home automation with linux: How to use zigbee sensors on an ubuntu raspberry pi...

To the end of the year i wanted to start a new project: Home automation...

I decided to use a linux system (of course) on a raspberry pi (see the OS installation here) and the zigbee protocol.

The main problem: What packages are needed 

• to get a communication with zigbee components?
• to get a website or app to get the data / visualize the data?
• to set up a daemon/server which controls the devices?

Let's start with the third point: I will try FHEM.

The installation is described here:

https://debian.fhem.de/

wget -qO - http://debian.fhem.de/archive.key | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://debian.fhem.de/nightly/ /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install fhem

After you follow the steps you can check, if FHEM is running with

root@zigbee:/home/ubuntu# netstat -ltnup | grep 8083
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8083            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      19446/perl   

 or just connect to your raspberry via browser: http://zigbee:8083

 

 

 

and here a screenshot of the goal i want to achieve (maybe with some graphs added):

Here a list of the supported hardware:

https://wiki.fhem.de/wiki/Kategorie:Hardware

and a list of all supported protocols:

https://wiki.fhem.de/wiki/System%C3%BCbersicht#Protokolle