Farewell BACnet, you served me well

It seems like many years have past since I first started to use BACnet here at home.

I had setup several sensors and had them all feeding into a BACnet server on Raspberry PI Zero W. All was working as expected and reliably.

But recently I have changed my work and I no longer have access to the the visualisation systems that I use, and in fact they were more complicated than was needed for my data, and so it's now time to look at a different path.

As I had been the infrastructure guy I have decided to see what I can do using opensource software and my own programming skills.

Stay tuned for some updates on the project

Time for a little more Bacnet

Wow, time flies....
Just noticed that I am rocking it up to a year since my last post
And so what has happened since then, lots and not much

At work I have expanded my team and at home I have integrated a larger Bacnet device network

Now my Raspberry Pi has 5 DS1820 temperature sensors wired up all over the house and a EmonCMS power monitor connected up

All of these device are feeding back into our company's systems, as part of a 'test building'.
It has been very interesting to watch what the BuildingIQ software can do with just this information. I can now see what is going on at home, when power is being used and if its for AC/heating or just day to day living

So if your're interested then visit the BuildingIQ web site or keep watching here as I continue the journey of a DIY Bacnet server

Bacnet stack and the Rasberry Pi

So its been a fast year and I have changed a lot in 12 months.
Having left the relative security of full time employment I decided to go DevOps contracting.

I did some fun gig's around Auto-scaling applications and databases in AWS along with extremely large test and dev environments for government orgs and Insurance industries.

I found the time I spent doing contracting to be very rewarding as I skilled up on how these types of organizations function.

Then I moved back to full time employment. Not because contracting was hard but more because something exciting and challenging came along.

That was when I got introduced to bacnet.

Now as you know I have done a bit with x10 over the years but it is now become difficult to continue doing this on small scale embedded devices.

Along came bacnet on Rasberry Pi. Just having watched a video  demonstration on setting up on Pi I thought I would give it a try.

So first step was to download the code, and it's hard to find a link
Then after reading the instructions I found that I needed to use version 0.7.1 of the stack. And that's old.....

So now I have migrated into using the latest version on github with the above patched in so enjoy the repo :)
https://github.com/jlcox1970/BACnet-Protocol-Stack