Last Updated on June 2, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
We saw, that Home Assistant to awaken your home, an open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first, powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts, perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server is making progess.
Next to house sensors, wheather sensors, it also possible now to stream physiological sensor data from Fitbit, Garmin, and Polar devices to Home Assistant, as well as data can be synched from Strava to Home Assistant.
Garmin mainly allows to synchronize wellness data like resting heart rate to Home Assistant, which is also great. But Polar even allows to synch all the activity data to HA.
An integration of EEG devices with sensor data from Acitivty trackers in HA (InfluxDB) would be highly desirable.
We saw, that the time is over, that Garmin or other sports watches are isolated containers, which sync their data to another isolated container (Garmin Connect), where the manufacturer decides what can be done with the sensor data.
Data for instance from a Garmin watch can now be synched periodically over the Garmin connect app to Garmin Connect (or directly from the Garmin Connect app?) to Strava to Home Assistant, which offers dashboards, InfluxDB, Grafana, etc.
It would be highly desirable, that this freedom is also available for EEG devices. EEG devices should be able to sync their EEG data into an InfluxDB in Home Assistant together with the best heart rate sensors from sports watches. The time is here for this features. It only has to be integrated.
The Muse headband, the Interaxon app, the Mind Monitor offer as live-streaming option Alexandre Barachant LabStreamingLayer interface or OCS streaming from apps as options, which are not Home Assistant compatible. It is highly desirable that these live-streaming option are updated with the Muse Headband.
OpenBCI offer MQTT streaming over the WIFI shield. Unfortunately, the Wifi shield is currently unavailable, as far as we know, and the old shield has some issues (cyclic noise spiking, etc). But for MQTT it seems to work for some applications:
An example how to connect an OpenBCI board over MQTT to Home assistant, where the data can be integrated with sensor data from other devices would be highly desirable.