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This looks like a lot of fun! Using a RaspPi is really attractive to me because you can make everything interoperate, and nothing depends on some company's servers. I've done two Pi projects now that I keep meaning to blog about. One was a sprinkler control system. My old system was dying, and not very flexible, so I decided to run everything off a Pi. The tricky part was driving 13 sprinkler lines with 24V AC curren…
Hello and thanks for the post! I'm the author of this repo. I would be happy to answer any questions :) Also any feedback/ideas are greatly appreciated!
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Hello. I have a Panasonic AC, that I'm controlling via IR LED Diode (see schematics in repo), here is the actual picture of the AC: http://imgur.com/lXHxvWt . I'm also using similar heater: http://gazifikaciya-otoplenie.uslugi.catalog.bg/images/produ... , which I'm controlling via Servo (thermostat) and a central on/off relay. Going to add a video later tonight :)
In your pics I saw what looked like a servo turning your dial. Is that what you mean? It's a great solution. Most houses in the US have central heating/cooling so the IR remote isn't an option. Although I have seen that style before. What I want to do is integrate it directly with the system. Here's an example of a Honeywell connector similar to mine. http://diyhousehelp.com/how-to/honeywell-4-and-5-wire-thermo...
Nice project. Mine isn't quite so ambitious (yet). I just need to monitor water pumps. Does anyone have a suggestion for a water flow sensor? I need to detect if there is water present at the pump input. So far the only thing I've been able to get my hands on is a water flow meter [1]. But it's overkill because I don't need to measure flow rate, only presence of water. [1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Black-G1-Inc…
I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri/HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets) https://home-assistant.io https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER314 https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER002-4 I would…
I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri/HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets) https://home-assistant.io https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER314 https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER002-4 I would…
https://youtu.be/wh0OoLUTeM8 Just added a video :)
This looks like a lot of fun! Using a RaspPi is really attractive to me because you can make everything interoperate, and nothing depends on some company's servers. I've done two Pi projects now that I keep meaning to blog about. One was a sprinkler control system. My old system was dying, and not very flexible, so I decided to run everything off a Pi. The tricky part was driving 13 sprinkler lines with 24V AC curren…
I too replaced my dying PoS Rainbird irrigation controller with a raspberry pi and a relay board. > With cron, I can schedule things however I want! Wait, are you not using sprinklers_pi[1]? I highly recommend it. I have more home pi/arduino/IoT projects coming up, but I am thinking it's going to be a lot of work integrating them. I'd like one home app/page that integrates them all. 1. https://github.com/rszimm/sprin…
Once your hardware is integrated with Home Assistant it can handle automating things. The whole system is a big state machine so most automations will involve reacting to state changes and sending commands to other devices in response.
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What type of AC / Heating does your home have? Are those two knobs in the photo the central climate control?
Hello. I have a Panasonic AC, that I'm controlling via IR LED Diode (see schematics in repo), here is the actual picture of the AC: http://imgur.com/lXHxvWt . I'm also using similar heater: http://gazifikaciya-otoplenie.uslugi.catalog.bg/images/produ... , which I'm controlling via Servo (thermostat) and a central on/off relay. Going to add a video later tonight :)
This looks like a lot of fun! Using a RaspPi is really attractive to me because you can make everything interoperate, and nothing depends on some company's servers. I've done two Pi projects now that I keep meaning to blog about. One was a sprinkler control system. My old system was dying, and not very flexible, so I decided to run everything off a Pi. The tricky part was driving 13 sprinkler lines with 24V AC curren…
Having a pi cluster "feels" more like a datacenter with many servers. Using kubernetes to coordinate it all is pretty fun when you actually have several "servers" to coordinate across. That to me was the satisfying part. Not that I NEEDED miniature scale, but that the miniature scale felt like a valid downsizing of real scale.