<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Inexpensive &amp;amp; Flexible Home Automation / Wireless Sensors</title><link>/challenges-projects/design-challenges/forget-me-not/b/blog/posts/inexpensive-flexible-home-automation-wireless-sensors</link><description>[INDEX] Introduction and project description Sensor Node and Gateway Design How I use OpenHAB - audio notification and dashboards Design detail for wireless sensor nodes and gateway Uber Sensor - wireless sensor for fire, smoke, gas, barking, light, movem</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Inexpensive &amp;amp; Flexible Home Automation / Wireless Sensors</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/forget-me-not/b/blog/posts/inexpensive-flexible-home-automation-wireless-sensors</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 03:32:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3878c6f9-6ceb-4e11-98a0-c0e159dce940</guid><dc:creator>mcb1</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Excellent projects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will you be &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;posting the code&lt;/span&gt; for you letterbox monitor, the sleep mode option sounds perfect for a couple of my other projects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry missed the link &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://github.com/homeautomationyay/OpenHab-RFM69/blob/master/Field_Node_Mailbox.ino" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank" title="https://github.com/homeautomationyay/OpenHab-RFM69/blob/master/Field_Node_Mailbox.ino"&gt;https://github.com/homeautomationyay/OpenHab-RFM69/blob/master/Field_Node_Mailbox.ino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I did discover that some versions of computer mice had a 3v3 thru hole with enough wire to reuse, so you may wish to look at your ewaste organisation, or someone throwing them out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like you almost need to build your own Arduino board and use the QFN version which seems to be so much cheaper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve used &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.hackvana.com/store/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hackvana&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to make some boards and can recommend them on price and turnaround.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;mark&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=18198&amp;AppID=100&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Inexpensive &amp;amp; Flexible Home Automation / Wireless Sensors</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/forget-me-not/b/blog/posts/inexpensive-flexible-home-automation-wireless-sensors</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:06:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3878c6f9-6ceb-4e11-98a0-c0e159dce940</guid><dc:creator>DAB</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I look forward to seeing your implementation and testing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I might be able to use some of your ideas in some of my projects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DAB&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=18198&amp;AppID=100&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>