WIFI shield and MQTT?
The WIFI shield has MQTT support. The WIFI shield is currently not available from the OpenBCI store.
https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/17661#Comment_17661
To make the old WIFI shield work properly, it needs as far as we know some soldering and programing skills:
“IMPORTANT NOTE: This product is in beta mode. The WiFi shield is known to have reliability issues (packet loss and cyclical noise spikes) when used with Cyton and CytonDaisy boards. Using it effectively requires advanced technical skills and programming knowledge. Please proceed at your own risk. OpenBCI cannot guarantee that the device will work with your configuration.»
This info can be found somewhere about the OpenBCI WIFI shield, we don t remember where.
If someone is interested in OpenBCI and MQTT and has soldering and programing skills, it would be highly desirable to take over this project and make the WIFI shield resurrect with it s great potential to stream over MQTT.
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We are further promoting a Home Assistant Integration of OpenBCI over MQTT on the OpenBCI WIFI shield:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/who-loves-soldering-and-coding-to-make-an-openbci-wifi-shield-mqtt-home-assitant-integration/441757
There are more and more sensors available with MQTT support. There is one paper available which uses an OpenBCI module to control the whole house with user controlled eye blinks through MQTT and Home Assistant:
BCI Based Home Automation using User Controlled Blinks:
http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/medwelljournals/jeasci/2020/1377-1384.pdf
There is another project which sends ECG over MQTT, which could also be done with OpenBCI:
Remote web based ECG Monitoring using MQTT Protocol for IoT in Healthcare
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324686561_Remote_web_based_ECG_Monitoring_using_MQTT_Protocol_for_IoT_in_Healthcare
There is a Rasperri ANT+ available which sends sports sensor data to Home Assistant. More and more sensors support MQTT. As soon as a sensor is integrated to Home Assistant, sensor data are stored in InfluxDB and can be integrated with other sensor data, and processed further from there with the InfluxDB client for Python. It is time for an OpenBCI Home Assistant integration.