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RE: The Smart Room Project - Current Phase

phoenixcomm — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:49:37 GMT

Addendum

you can also find most of this here on the site search for smarthab.

RE: The Smart Room Project - Current Phase

phoenixcomm — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:44:17 GMT

I like your story.. but why run cables all over the place?? easier to implement but more complex, brake your project to two parts (or more) all you really need is two wires to go around your room, first is the power, the second is the CANbus, 2 or 3 wires I like to have a good common signal ground. then at each device build a client. lights, blinds etc. you can pick at CAN-spi from China for about one buck. BTW I use a variation of CAN called CANaerospace (higher-level protocol.) and you can send it over an Ethernet cable. one twisted pair, and one more for ground. More info is here on my website. smarthab.us btw this will open in new browser window.

RE: Being Lazy - Home Automation

merriam1 — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 04:04:52 GMT

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RE: Home Automation Mojo You Must Know Part 5: The House Hub

DAB — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:15:11 GMT

Nice update.

DAB

RE: OpenHAB 2 with Matrix Creator and RasPi 3 A+: MATRIX Lite Python

hermitter — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:56:30 GMT

Hey just wanted to let you know that the Python library was recently updated with new features and a PyPi package. This installs a halSwig, and matrix_lite module.

Your previous code should work if you replace the build.matrix import statement with:

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Our newer features, such as setting LEDs with a color's name, are available under the matrix_lite module.

If you encounter any problems, feel free to open an issue in the repository: https://github.com/matrix-io/matrix-lite-py

RE: SERA - Smart Extension Relay with Alexa - powered by MATRIX Creator and Arduino MKR1000

jomoenginer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:12:09 GMT

Nice Project Dixon and congrats on winning the Giving Your Habitat a Personality with Home Automation! contest.

However, I believe a bit of clarification is needed since you can not install and run the Alexa Voice Services on the MATRIX Creator; this is running on the Raspberry Pi.

RE: Being Lazy - Home Automation

ruchir1674 — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:08:13 GMT

I have updated version of controlling various lights using snips and matrix voice. Will soon post it.

RE: OpenHAB 2 with Matrix Creator and RasPi 3 A+: GPIO and Postmortem

aabhas — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 01:17:58 GMT

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Very nice and informative series of blogs , just from begeibegi till end very well documentation too.

Great

Aabhas Senapati

RE: Being Lazy - Home Automation

aspork42 — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 04:05:28 GMT

Great job! I'm going to have to look into using Snips - it seems very useful.

RE: Smart Clock over Cloud

aspork42 — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 03:19:09 GMT

Nice job! I love it!

RE: Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 - PCBs have arrived!

aspork42 — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:10:27 GMT

Nice update!

Your lights are like "the Lumberjack's axe" at this point - "This is my favorite axe - I've replaced the head twice and the handle three times"

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Could you just tin the PCB around the lights?

RE: Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 - Part 2

aspork42 — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:02:17 GMT

Nice work!

Based on the work I've done with high-speed line scan cameras, I think that technically this is using a reflector, not a collimator. Collimated light is a specific thing (like lasers and the sun). This is just reflecting and somewhat focusing the light. I highly agree that moving to a parabolic shape would be a big gain (although may 'focus' the light on the countertops), eliminate (or enlarge) the aperture, and if you can make the base PCB reflective, that would be the big gains.

RE: Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2

aspork42 — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 02:52:14 GMT

This is awesome! I was /very/ close to adding PIR when I did my backsplash tile (video below) but IR light doesnt transmit through normal glass tile. I was going to embed the PIR sensor behind the tiles. In the end, I just embedded the LED strips, capacitive touch sensors, and one LDR photocell for sensing the lighting.

[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_df6y9scc4:740:466]

I will have to do a write up on this project at some point. I want to add a motion sensor in my kitchen to do just as you do as well. Here is an image of what the LDR reads out during a typical day (or at least this is what it read today).

This readout is an OpenHab display (in a web browser) which I have running on a cheap-o tablet which sits on the kitchen counter - it can briefly be seen in the video.

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You can see the 'natural' changes in the lighting level and the plateaus where the normal kitchen lights went on and off.

RE: Mini Weather Station

aspork42 — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 02:17:45 GMT

Awesome job! Nice and compact, and functional!

RE: Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 - Wrap up

three-phase — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:34:49 GMT

A very thorough project that I have enjoyed following along the way. You have done really well to get it this far is the short space of time for a Project14 entry.

Kind regards.