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Not all blog posts can be about successful implementations or achievements. Sometimes, failure happens as well This is the case for my domotics implementation. Does that mean I have given up on getting it to work?...
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No time to go out on a Friday night, only a couple of days before the challenge's deadline. Instead, I decided to annoy the neighbours by doing some final milling and sanding ... So, as promised, ...
This Morning's Bounty of Fowl investments! The 3 on top are Duck eggs, only 1 was laid today but I wanted to give comparison for size to the Chicken Eggs. The Element 14 pen is also for size comparison. But John, you don&#...
Messaging in HangarControlI have a lot of detail to cover in this episode, so I am taking a break from the podcast and going "old school". It seems that everyone has been jumping on the MQTT, or more affectionately "mosquitto", bandwagon. I decided t...
One of the goals of Thuis is optimizing it's own rule engine based on actual activity in the house. Although time is to short to actually start the optimization, with this blog we'll start collecting presence data using iBeacons. As a bonus we solve ...
In these last days I have implemented three new features of Phase 2 that will make DomPi more useful to my family: determine who is at home, welcome the family when we arrive home and send an alert if the average temperature of the apartment is eithe...
Up until now, I built the 'skeleton' of the platform: we have these three nodes in the smart home (Central Node, Sensors Node, User Node), which show the sensors data at different points. However, the platform lacks a nice access point for the reside...
Internet of things is about connecting connecting th things around you in a meaningful way. Last few posts, I showed how to connect and monitor a few sensors inside the home using raspberry pi. Now it's time for a little entertainment. After the basi...
Things have been moving around the Farm lately so expect to see some catch up blog posts coming at you soon! First, anyone else have a loving, caring, helpful spouse who makes your projects grow exponentially? :-) When the project was...
Here is a quick post on integrating camera's with Home Assistant, this includesPi Camera connected to Raspberry Pi 3 as part of the HubSecurity camera that we create using a Raspberry Pi Zero, PI NOIR camera and installing Motion with Single File...
IntroductionI am not sure if the Dynamic Surface is an Animatronics or something related to Robotics. By a certain point of view it is a sort of modular robotic pixel reacting to some kind of inputs in certain conditions. By another point of view it ...
One thing I forgot to show you earlier is how to install Z-Wave devices into your house. In this post I'll install a dimmer module in the bedroom, which will be part of the wake up light. Materials usedThe materials I'm going to use are the foll...
IntroductionDynamic surface is another moving subproject part of the PiIot design. It represents an independent moving platform: as well as the PiSense HATPiSense HAT includes an 8x8 RGB LED matrix the Dynamic surface is a physical 8x8 matrix built w...
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In order to be able to visualise the home control interface on the touch screen, a browser is required. The resolution of the touch screen is limited to 800x480, so every pixel counts. By putting ...
Moving away from the OpenHAB interface config for a bit, I started working on the Feeder Control System that will drive the Feeder for my project. For this, I decided to use the Pi Face Display and Control as well as the Digital 2 connected to ...
My friends where over this friday, and as I was demoing to them the parts/spokes of the project and showing them Home Assistant UI features, one of them said "Won't it be awesome! if there could be music playing out of the Hub" , ...
From my holiday location at the coast of Bulgaria I finished up the implementation of the UI of Thuis. It works nicely on both the iPhones and the iPad on the wall. This blog will give you a demo and bring you up-to-date with some of the changes I ma...
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Starting this challenge, I set out to build not one, but two control units. The idea behind this was that a single control unit would require the user to move to that room in order to be able to trigge...
Since my last blog I’m still traveling, therefore I could unfortunately not work much on the project. The good news is that my traveling last week was to the AgriControl conference in Seattle (Washington State University), where I got a lot of inspir...
This installment details the installation and minimal usage of the Flask web server. We will be using Flask to serve the Hangar Control application. A great place to start learning about Flask and how you can use it in your own projects would be the ...
Trying to move full speed during the last two weeks of the challenge! In the last few days I have achieved a great milestone in the DomPi project: all the features from the Phase 1 are now fully operational . The missing pieces that I worked out thes...
After designing and putting together 3 SPOKES which you can take up as individual projects. It is now time ! to put them all together and have them communicate with each other via the HUB. To have the spokes and the Hub communicate with each ot...
I had originally intended to continue producing my blog posts as videos, or screencasts, webcasts, or vlogs (as my kids are fond of watching). In preparing Episode #5, I inadvertantly deleted the production instead of saving it. Well, lucky for you v...
