Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Jan 12, 2017 3:01 pm This thread is aimed at people who are interested in making and programming their own Home Automation/IoT devices using platforms like Raspberry Pi/Arduino etc platforms. Use this to discuss device ideas and high level implementation. Do NOT use this for detailed technical discussions (there are already plenty of resources and communities for this). What are your ideas? Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 2Jan 12, 2017 3:02 pm I'll kick off with projects on my list: - Rainwater tank level sensor Using an NodeMCU/ESP8266 (WiFi) and an ultrasonic sensor - Car garage parking distance sensor Using an Arduino and ultrasonic sensor - Weather station Hacking a LaCrosse weather station - Automated watering for Vege patch Using soil moisture and rain sensing Does anyone else have projects? Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 3Jan 12, 2017 3:06 pm Thank you for starting this discussion Following As I said in the other thread, I am using Vox commando/Eventghost/Tracker/Active voice - Control lights with voice command - Control TV volume and channel with voice command In pipeline: - Control home theatre gadget once I move into new house and get the dedicated theatre room Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 4Jan 12, 2017 5:45 pm My idea (just based on some of how our current old miners cottage home is), is a controllable curtain opener/closer. Not standard style (sideways slide open/closed) though - this "curtain" is a room separator in an opening that has no doorway. So I envisage it winding a spool tight which hikes one side of the curtain up towards the opposite top corner. Odd I know, just something I'm thinking of making to test the waters in arduino/rpi. I'm not even sure which I'd prefer at this stage - any opinions which is better / easier / bigger following? Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automation 5Jan 12, 2017 6:40 pm Too old to program my own stuff, I just want to buy it ready to go!:) Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 6Jan 12, 2017 11:27 pm benhelps My idea (just based on some of how our current old miners cottage home is), is a controllable curtain opener/closer. Not standard style (sideways slide open/closed) though - this "curtain" is a room separator in an opening that has no doorway. So I envisage it winding a spool tight which hikes one side of the curtain up towards the opposite top corner. Odd I know, just something I'm thinking of making to test the waters in arduino/rpi. I'm not even sure which I'd prefer at this stage - any opinions which is better / easier / bigger following? I think the Pi is easier to start programming on compared to the Arduino, and with the Pi Zero, it's a cheap option Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 7Apr 04, 2017 11:05 pm Hi, has anyone got somfy motors for your blinds/curtains? If so, have you found a way to operate the blinds without using the somfy remote or mylink app? Thanks, Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 8May 11, 2017 1:03 pm Keen as to start some automation but no idea where to start... I have checked out the PI stuff before but can't find anything that sort of shows where to start/how to program the thing? Any suggestions? Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 9May 11, 2017 3:37 pm RegVic Hi, has anyone got somfy motors for your blinds/curtains? If so, have you found a way to operate the blinds without using the somfy remote or mylink app? Thanks, I haven't, however from memory openHAB has a Somfy plugin Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 11May 12, 2017 9:50 am Hi J, A good start pointing would be to list what you would like to achieve with home automation... There are off-the-shelf products available for some home automation tasks... Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 12Dec 18, 2017 10:12 pm Hi All If you are going to be using a Pi for you controller I would recommend using the Home Assistant platform very easy to use and with a z-wave usb stick you can then start to control z-wave devices I personally started with is platform before moving over to the Fibaro HC2 https://home-assistant.io/ Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 13Jul 06, 2018 10:41 am I am using a Fibaro HC2, and have a bunch of devices that have their own @#2 phone apps, but don't offer up APIS. I'm using wireshark to see if I can figure out how these things hold together. I have successfully reverse engineered the protocol for one of our devices, and - create a virtual device in HC2 that calls a web endpoint exposed on my Raspberry PI, that - runs Node-Red on the raspberry PI. My node-red flow listens for the web call, then sends a UDP packet to the device I want to control This is working pretty well, although I only just got it working. Need to iron out some wrinkles; but I find the HC2 quite good, and its scripting capabilites aren't bad, but I don't have time to learn LUA, so I just use the block scripts. On the Node-red running on the RPI, flows are pretty much drag and drop, with adapters for all sorts of things, but you do need to dip your toe into javascript a little bit... Not for the faint of heart, but for the nerdy, it's bliss! Cheers Re: Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automa 14Jun 05, 2019 9:19 pm If anybody successfully finished any projects with Raspberry Pi or Arduino - share it here. 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