Ok this question might be very ignorant, but how do you setup multiple masterbricks in the openhab?

My house will have 7 separate master bricks (one per room to control the light switches, blinds and provide temp readout) all of them with Eternet POE extensions so they will have separate IP's

 

how do I setup them in the openhab.cfg? What is the suntax for the second masterbrick?

 

first is defined as:

tinkerforge:hosts=172.16.2.156

 

And the second?

Hi xsherlock,

 

just add your brickd/master brick configurations space separated to the tinkerforge:hosts line:

tinkerforge:hosts=127.0.0.1:4224 192.168.1.50 192.168.1.104

This is an example copied from the openHAB wiki docs:

https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Tinkerforge-Binding#example-configurations

 

Regards,

Theo

 

Ok that is brutally simple. But can you tell me  how openhab knows that particular "XYZ"  bricklet is behind given IP address. Does it use multicast to communicate or it is using pooling on the setup phase to determine that?

 

Maciej

The binding opens an ipconnection to each configured brickd address and has a virtual device model for the bookkeeping.

OK, that is smart. I still however have a bit of the problem  setting up a second IO16, First is configured as in the examples

 

 

tinkerforge:io16.uid=w1j
tinkerforge:io16.type=bricklet_io16
tinkerforge:io16.debouncePeriod=100
tinkerforge:io16ina0.uid=w1j
tinkerforge:io16ina0.subid=ina0
tinkerforge:io16ina0.type=iosensor

 

How do I add the second one?

Like that?

tinkerforge:io16_second.uid=xxx
tinkerforge:io16_second.type=bricklet_io16
tinkerforge:io16_second.debouncePeriod=100
tinkerforge:io16ina0_second.uid=xxx
tinkerforge:io16ina0_second.subid=ina0
tinkerforge:io16ina0_second.type=iosensor

Looks good to me.