To Connect the OpenBCI WIFI Shield Directly to InfluxDB

Last Updated on November 10, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org

• the OpenBCI GUI supports the Open Sound Control protocol. Touchdesigner supports OSC streaming, but unfortunately not InfluxDB or Home Assistant

• the OpenBCI WIFI shield can be connected to the OpenBCI GUI, but LSL does not work on this path, and we do not know whether OSC works on this path

• OpenBCI supports LSL, but this works as far as we know only with the OpenBCI Bluetooth dongle

• LSL is great for Matlab, but if we want to use Python, we depend on an non-ARM platform

• There are already several options to connect sports sensor devices to Home Assistant, which can export to InfuxDB, but not for OpenBCI

• We suggest to connect the OpenBCI WIFI shield directly to InfuxDB:

How to read, write and delete data in InfluxDB with Python

• since we do not know how stable Home Assistant is

• the OpenBCI WIFI shield can eventually be connected directly to the InfluxDB of Home Assistant to join OpenBCI sensor data with sensor data from other devices

• there is a power improved denoised OpenBCI WIFI shield available on Aliexpress
• Once in InfluxDB, sensor data can be processed with the Python client for InfluxDB
• There are many great Python software examples available to process EEG data