Any plans on adding onion omega support in the near future?
Best, Mads Cordes
Hi @Mobilpadde , welcome to the Cayenne Community,
Until it is added there, the best way to connect anything not officially listed in the Cayenne supported hardware list is through the Cayenne ‘Bring Your Own Thing’ MQTT API
We have a few users on this very forum who have shared their connection / control ideas for the Onion Omega2 – have a look at these threads for a place to get started:
Taking advantage of free time this weekend, and recently recorded the Getting Started of the Onion Omega2 (so I have it on the desktop), I wanted to install nodejs (which I could not do in v1) and connect it to Cayenne using my recent library.
There is still no official library to control the omega2’s gpio, so I’ve used the shell commands (read about it here: Using the Omega’s GPIOs | Onion Omega2 Documentation ).
1. Update opkg
opkg update
2. Install Node.JS
opkg install nodejs
3. Install …
I can send message from my Omega Onion2 by using mosquitto.
install mosquitto by typing in Omega Onion2 terminal
opkg update
opkg install mosquitto mosquitto-client libmosquitto
Use this command to publish on Cayenne Dashboard a message
mosquito_pub -h mqtt.mydevices.com -i “client_id” -u “username” -P “password” -t v1//things//data/1 -m “message”
You can substitute “client_id” “username” and “password”. After you can put a value on “message” field
You also can create a python program tha…
