Windcentrale Binding

This Binding is used to display the details of Windcentrale windmills.

Supported Things

The binding supports the following Windcentrale Things:

Thing Type	Description
account	An account for using the Windcentrale API
windmill	Windcentrale Windmill

Discovery

After creating an account Thing the Binding can discover windmills based on the participations linked to the account.

Binding Configuration

No binding configuration required.

Thing Configuration

Account

Configuration Parameter	Required
username	X
password	X

Windmill

Configuration Parameter	Required	Default	Description
name	X	De Blauwe Reiger	Identifies the windmill (see names list below)
shares		1	Number of wind shares ("Winddelen")
refreshInterval		30	Refresh interval for refreshing the data in seconds

The following windmill names are supported:

• De Blauwe Reiger
• De Boerenzwaluw
• De Bonte Hen
• De Grote Geert
• De Jonge Held
• De Ranke Zwaan
• De Trouwe Wachter
• De Vier Winden
• De Witte Juffer
• Het Rode Hert
• Het Vliegend Hert

Channels

Channel ID	Item Type	Description
energy-total	Number:Energy	Total energy this year
power-relative	Number:Dimensionless	Relative power
power-shares	Number:Power	Power provided for your wind shares
power-total	Number:Power	Total power
run-percentage	Number:Dimensionless	Run percentage this year
run-time	Number:Time	Run time this year
timestamp	DateTime	Timestamp of the last update
wind-direction	String	Current wind direction
wind-speed	Number	Measured current wind speed (Bft)

Example

demo.things

Bridge windcentrale:account:demo-account [ username="johndoe@acme.com", password="Mf!BU45LTF6X2Cf36zxt" ] {
    Thing windmill    de-grote-geert      [ name="De Grote Geert" ]
    Thing windmill    de-blauwe-reiger    [ name="De Blauwe Reiger", shares=3, refreshInterval=60 ]
}

demo.items

Group                 gReiger                "Windcentrale Reiger"

Number                ReigerWindSpeed        "Wind speed [%d Bft]"                  (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:wind-speed" }
String                ReigerWindDirection    "Wind direction [%s]"                  (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:wind-direction" }
Number:Power          ReigerPowerTotal       "Total windmill power [%.1f %unit%]"   (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:power-total" }
Number:Power          ReigerPowerShares      "Wind shares power [%.1f %unit%]"      (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:power-shares" }
Number:Dimensionless  ReigerPowerRelative    "Relative power [%.1f %unit%]"         (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:power-relative" }
Number:Energy         ReigerEnergyTotal      "Total windmill energy [%.0f %unit%]"  (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:energy-total" }
Number:Dimensionless  ReigerRunPercentage    "Run percentage [%.1f %unit%]"         (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:run-percentage" }
Number:Time           ReigerRunTime          "Run time [%.0f %unit%]"               (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:run-time" }
DateTime              ReigerTimestamp        "Update timestamp [%1$ta %1$tR]"       (gReiger) { channel="windcentrale:windmill:demo-account:de-blauwe-reiger:timestamp" }

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