Every thing you need to know about FHEM

In category: ← Internet of Things (IoT)

About FHEM

FHEM is used to automate common tasks in the household like switching lamps and heating. It can also be used to log events like temperature or power consumption. You can control it via web or smartphone frontends, telnet or TCP/IP directly.

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Languages/Platforms/Technologies:

Perl

Lincenses:

GPL-3.0

More about FHEM

FHEM (TM) is a GPL'd perl server for house automation. It is used to automate some common tasks in the household like switching lamps / shutters / heating / etc. and to log events like temperature / humidity / power consumption.

The program runs as a server, you can control it via web or smartphone frontends, telnet or TCP/IP directly.

In order to use FHEM you'll need a 24/7 server (NAS, RPi, PC, MacMini, etc) with a perl interpreter and some attached hardware like the CUL-, EnOcean-, Z-Wave-USB-Stick, etc. to access the actors and sensors.

It is pronounced without the h, like in feminine.

Features

support for a lot of protocols used in house automation, audio/video devices, weather services, online calendars and more.
autocreating devices/logs when receiving data from a new device: start FHEM and watch how the plots of your sensors are appearing automatically.
logging events to files or a database, with regexp filters
notifying external programs or scripts when receiving certain events
timed commands (e.g. switching a lamp on from sunset till midnight)
lot of interfaces: simple text, JSON, XML, each of them over plain TCP/IP, SSL or HTTP.
modular architecture with currently over 430 modules, easy to add your special device
lot of frontends, choose your favorite