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  • A Starter Guide for the New Matter Smart Home Automation Protocol

    Smart homes have revolutionized the way we interact with our living spaces. Connected devices that can be controlled with a voice command to Alexa or simple tap on a smartphone have made daily life more convenient. As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues…

  • Autopsy of a Z-Wave Wall Switch

    I have home automation implemented at my house that allows me to control and monitor things remotely (lights, cameras, etc). We were on a trip last week when my wife got a call after dinner from a neighbor who asked if we sitting home in the dark. That…

  • Dev board for Raspberry Pi with Microphone Array, NFC, ZigBee, Thread, Z-Wave, FPGA

    Learn more at http://creator.matrix.one Sensors & Components Ultraviolet sensor Pressure sensor 3D Accelerometer 3D Gyroscope 3D Magnetometer Humidity sensor 8 MEMs Mic. Array Temperature sensor FPGA (Xilinx Spartan 6) Microcontroller (ARM Cortex ...
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  • Has it been a year?

    Wow! Time does fly. A bit of catch up... I've managed to incorporate the RaZberry board into my home systems. I'm not sure that it qualifies as "home automation" but I've scripted a number of functions so that: the lights and radio (a different control…

  • RPi/Z-wave project on hold

    The Raspberry Pi Z-wave project is on hold for a bit. Vendor just indicated that the RazBerry board is on back order, with the next shipment expected around the 15th of July.

  • RPi/Z-wave project: Controlling lights with wget

    Had a chance to play with the RaZberry yesterday. In reading about it, noticed that you could control devices via either JSON or simple URLs (via a browser). Being a total n00b, it took me an hour or so to figure out what was needed to control the lights…

  • RPi/Z-wave project on hold (Update 1)

    I received the Razberry daughterboard this week. Installation is only slightly buggy in that I couldn't use the wget statement in the docs to pipe the download to a shell. Instead, I had to download the "install" script and run it via: python install…

  • Sigma Design lance le Z-Wave Next Gen!

    Sigma Design lance le Z-Wave Next Gen! Sigma Design a récemment annoncé dans un communiqué de presse le lancement officiel de leur nouvelle génération de produits Z-wave baptisée Z-Wave Next Gen! Ce portefeuille de produit ce constitue de nouveaux Chipset…

  • [Pi IoT] Thuis #12: Installing a Z-Wave dimmer

    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 used The materials I'm going to use are the following…

  • [Pi IoT] Thuis #7: Publishing activity from Z-Way to MQTT

    Now we have a working Raspberry Pi 3 with Z-Way it's time to connect it to the backbone of Thuis: MQTT. For this I developed a custom userModule/app . In this post I'll explain what it does, how to use it and how it works. Goal The app enables Z-Way to…

  • [Pi IoT] Thuis #6: Installing the Raspberry Pi 3 in practice

    Last week I explained how I'm using Chef to provision my Raspberry Pi's and the recipes in my Thuis cookbook . Back then I didn't have a Raspberry Pi 3 yet, so I tested it on an older model. This week the kit arrived, so I'll bring the bootstrapping in…

  • Z-Wave protocol specs now public domain

    Great news for the open source Z-Wave community! Sigma Designs made the Z-Wave protocol specifications available in the public domain, so for example OpenZWave (used by a.o. openHAB ) can now make an even more robust implementation. This should make Z…