Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 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. How to do it and components and little guidance too. I'm interested in it but not a programming or coding expert, but have done small scale like getting Kodi on Pi for HT etc.. Building Standards; Getting It Right! 1. optional, you can but normally just use the earth from the main switch board 2. should be enough but the distance determines voltage drop - sparky should work it… 1 29439 I recently went through a similar renovation and move scenario when updating our family home. We also swapped some rooms around and tackled a major… 2 11851 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 22123 |