Buderus EMS heating control data collection daemon

ems-collector logs serial data from a connected Buderus heating by interpreting the incoming data and writing it into a mysql database. It also provides a telnet-like interface for sending commands to the heating and receiving a stream of incoming data when being used with a TCP-to-EMS interface (e.g. NetIO with ethersex running on top)

The ems data is described here: http://ems-gateway.myds.me/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:ems:telegramme

(examples for debian wheezy)

The following packages are needed for building the collector:

apt-get install libboost1.49-all-dev
apt-get install libmysql++-dev

For using the bundled (demo) web interface, gnuplot is needed:

apt-get install gnuplot

git clone https://github.com/maniac103/ems-collector.git
cd ems-collector/collector
make

cp collectord /usr/local/sbin
cd ../tools
cp ems-collector.default /etc/default/ems-collector
cp ems-collector.init /etc/init.d/ems-collector

nano /etc/ems-collector.conf

now, copy and paste this into the editor and customize to meet your environment:

ratelimit = 120
rc-type = rc30
db-user = <user>
db-pass = <password>

close and save. The room controller type can be passed as either rc30 or rc35.

insserv ems-collector
service ems-collector start