Publications

Also available as blog posts on this site.

• Project Smart Swimming Pool, December 2018

  Blogpost of version 1 of Smart Swimming Pool

  📄 Read on this site

• Smart Swimming Pool: Introduction, October 2018

  Four-part German blog series on AZ-Delivery Blog about version 1 of the Smart Pool Controller.

  • Smarte Steuerung für den Swimmingpool (1/4)
  • Der Pool-Controller (2/4)
  • Swimmingpool und OpenHAB (3/4)
  • Der smarte Pool (4/4)

Project History

🏊 Smart Swimming Pool originated from an earlier project that was not yet modular and had all control logic implemented as openHAB rules.

The first version ran in Summer 2018 and revealed several weaknesses:

• Controlling pumps via 433 MHz socket switches was unreliable — no feedback meant the actual state was unknown
• Switching logic lived in openHAB rules, causing problems when WiFi was unreliable
• MQTT messages used a proprietary format

Based on these lessons, the revised 🏊 Smart Swimming Pool was built: modular, resilient, and standards-based.