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A Late weekly update

ipv1

This is a late weekly update and there are many reasons for it which include some urgent work on my PhD research as well a a cold a have. Anyways progress has been kinda up and down where some modules have been completely tested and other have been m...
- 3 Oct 2014
Pas Home / Home ventilation progress

verrverr

Pas Home - Index Hi small update for this week. This week a made some test with stepper motor and 2 proto to open my curtain but one proto is not very reliable and the other is very noisy and very slow. I'll make some improvements and ...
- 3 Oct 2014
eLDERmon EnOcean Sensors

mcb1

Link to other postsForget Me Not : eLDERmon Intro Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Electrical Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Outlets Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Planning Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Parts 1 Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Sponsor ...
- 3 Oct 2014
"Remember Me Always!" - Part 019

COMPACT

ID-IOTic This is just an text only update post to inform you of my current progress.The Raspberry Pi in combination with openhab is quite a powerful combination. Thus far I have managed to get openHAB up and working well.Amongst other things I'v...
- 2 Oct 2014
"Remember Me Always!" - Part 018

COMPACT

Are you in a Bind? The poor documentation can make things seem more complicated than they really are.Getting an Raspberry Pi output pin working on OpenHAB is actually much easier than you are led to believe. Here's a quick example on how to...
- 2 Oct 2014
Cam-e-lot - Round 13 - Man vs NDVI

amgalbu

In this post, I will face a difficult challenge: detect whether a plant is flourishing or not. At this moment in time, this feature requires some more experiments and works to make a reliable solution, but I think the solution is promisingNDVIVegetat...
- 2 Oct 2014
Forget Me Not - IQU - Custom App

dougw

This is an update to my Forget Me Not Design Challenge project.It is delayed because of a week lost to a trip, two weekends lost to softball tournaments, half a dozen hockey games and the process of landing a new job. Also, I am still struggling to g...
- 2 Oct 2014
Top Tip - configuration of openHAB without a PC

tekmeister

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so I thought I'd write a quick post. openHAB configuration is controlled by a number of text files, which define the various rules, items, and sitemaps. The format is quite particular and editing direct...
- 1 Oct 2014
"Remember Me Always!" - Part 017

COMPACT

What a Tight Squeeze!Figure 1. A WiFi SqueezePlay under iPAD openHAB control I seem to be working backwards. I built up a Raspberry Pi Model B+ with a NOOBs SD Card and installed OpenHAB 1.5.1 with root privileges using sudo.This seems to work c...
- 1 Oct 2014
"Remember Me Always!" - Part 016

COMPACT

Wicked Wireless Since being grounded without the capability of operating EnOcean Sensors at 868MHz I've had to resort to other methods.I had a cheapo 433.92MHz Transmitter and Receiver in the lab that had never been used so I hooked it up to see i...
- 30 Sep 2014
[CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Pi Camera: Wide Angle Lens

fvan

Previous posts for this project:[CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Index [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 0: Project Description [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 1: EnOceanPi and Sensors [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 2: Elro CoCo and Pi Cam with OpenHAB [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 3: Dat...
- 30 Sep 2014
Forget Me Not: Episode 11B - Soil Sensor Design

michaelwylie

Previous Posts:Epidode 1: Forget Me Not: Application Episode 2: Forget Me Not: The Best Laid Plans ...Episode 3: Forget Me Not: Setup EnOcean with openHAB Episode 4: Forget Me Not: Medication System Episode 5A: Forget Me Not: Using Notify My Android wit...
- 30 Sep 2014
Forget Me Not : LPG Level

mcb1

This post is not really for my challenge. but struck me as being another product looking to be hacked .... Link to other postsForget Me Not : eLDERmon Intro Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Electrical Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Outle...
- 28 Sep 2014
[CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 9: RFID Cat detection and identification

fvan

Previous posts for this project:[CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Index [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 0: Project Description [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 1: EnOceanPi and Sensors [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 2: Elro CoCo and Pi Cam with OpenHAB [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 3: Dat...
- 27 Sep 2014
Blog Summary #005 : Forget Me Not Challenge 2014

cstanton

The Forget Me Not Challenge is running from July 30th to October 24th.Previous activity:Blog Summary #000 : Forget Me Not Challenge 2014 Blog Summary #001 : Forget Me Not Challenge 2014 Blog Summary #002 : Forget Me Not Challenge 2014 Blog Summary #003 ...
- 26 Sep 2014
Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Charts

mcb1

Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Charts Link to other postsForget Me Not : eLDERmon Intro Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Electrical Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Outlets Forget Me Not : eLDERmon Planning Forget Me Not : eLDERm...
- 26 Sep 2014
Forget_me_not : My Smart Home Post#9 Week-8 (Part1) Sensors@enocean and Accuator@arduino+RFtransceiver

ravi_butani

Table of ContentsIn my previous post Fireman Minion: STM330 Temp-Sensor with custom Analog and Digital Input I have shared my work to interface Custom Analog and Digital Sensor with STM330..for Fireman Minion... But No luck In this Post, I wil...
- 26 Sep 2014
Cam-e-lot - Round 12 - Man vs light

amgalbu

In this post I will explain how the Cam-e-lot sensor sends the level of light in the room to the OpenHAB system.There two steps involved: calculate the level and light from the image captured by the RaspiCam and send the value to OpenHAB by means of ...
- 26 Sep 2014
Pas Home / Adafruit Motor Shield

verrverr

Pas Home - Index This week i continue to play with adafruit motor shield. I configure the shield to run in 3.3v mode compatible with Raspberry pi and convert the driving library in nodejs because i plan to use nodejs for easy comminucate beetwee...
- 26 Sep 2014
Forget Me Not - 5 - Designing a home automation add-on for the Pi [Part 1]

kipe

ForewordAs I (might) have mentioned before, the initial reason why I got into home automation was the house my dad built in the middle of nowhere. The current system is based heavily on 1-Wire, which is pretty much a wired equivalent for EnOcean stan...
- 25 Sep 2014
Forget Me Not: Fireman Minion

michaelwylie

So, we had a visitor today. players.brightcove.net/.../index.html
- 25 Sep 2014
Don't forget the windows 06 - slow progress is still progress

hlipka

Being on a business trip (overseas even) means that progress has been really slow. The workdays are longer, I have no hardware with me (don't dare to get that through US immigrations...) and the evenings are shorter.So I did some work on the Android ...
- 24 Sep 2014
[CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 8: Water dispenser and temperature

fvan

Previous posts for this project:[CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Index [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 0: Project Description [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 1: EnOceanPi and Sensors [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 2: Elro CoCo and Pi Cam with OpenHAB [CaTS] ForgetMeNot - Week 3: Dat...
- 24 Sep 2014
Laundry Room OpenHAB setup with custom icons

electronichamsters

I've been working on the laundry room portion of my home automation system. I've worked out the OpenHAB automation portion. I've changed the way I've been doing alarms and light indicators from my previous demos, so I thou...
- 24 Sep 2014
Modern security - where I'm at

tekmeister

You may have wondered about the lack of updates on my security system for the Forget Me Not challenge. I apologise for this, but want to provide some explanation. Life has certainly been conspiring against me for this challenge. First I had my c...
- 23 Sep 2014