Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 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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