In the last post, I talked about my trials and tribulations on getting my climate control hardware integrated into my home automation setup. In this post, we’re going to continue the story of installing hardware in my house and I’m going to talk about installing the sensors and switches into my home automation setup.
Setting up the climate control hardware
So, my past posts about home automation have talked about my history with getting things to do my bidding. Now, I want to start talking about what I’m working with now. In this post, I’m going to go over my trials and tribulations in trying to get all the climate control hardware in the house down to a single web connected interface. Continue reading “Setting up the climate control hardware”
First true automation project: Remote Control Lights (for real this time)
So, in my last post, I talked about my childhood dream of being able to turn my lights on and off from my bed. My straw setup was working well for a while until the masking tape started to fail and so straws would fall down and they’d leave a sticky goo on my wall that my parents we just thrilled about /sarcasm.
It was around 8ish years later (let’s say). We now had access to the world wide web at my house! WOW the future is mine!
I found out about a system called x10 (via banner ads) which would let me use the power lines of my house to automate switches or lights or anything that plugged in. This was awesome! This is just what I needed!
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My first ever home automation project: “Remote Control” Lights
As a software developer, it has always been my mantra to try to automate “all the things” and write myself out of a job. So far, I’ve been unsuccessful. This path, however, started very early in my software writing days.
The following is a historic tale which started me down my journey to giant robot bliss/frustration. This is the tale of my first “home automation” project.
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Welcome to my blog
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to my blog. Here I plan to talk about projects I’m working on and code I’m writing. Not all my projects will be software based. I’ll keep this entry brief because probably no one will read it except me to relive the day when I started a blog.
Thanks for stopping by,
Jon