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A project log for Random Schedule Thermostat

A home thermostat that senses when you're home, and turns on the heat.

dangerpants-labsDangerpants Labs 08/19/2014 at 22:560 Comments

I haven't had the free time to really devote any effort to the RST in the last few months, but what little time I have spent on it has been on duplicating the presence code from Bluetooth to also include Wifi.  This has been an interesting diversion, but I can definitely feel my inertia having pretty much disappeared.

I'm still living without a hardware choice (my last project log being my last serious thought on the subject), which means that I don't have any lower-level code done.  The high-level logic is close to done, but there's clearly a lot of work to do once I've got hardware selected, probably representing more time than I've already spent so far on high-level code.  I do have an MSP430F5529 Launchpad board sitting on the bench, but got stuck tracking down the toolchain for Linux (see the aforementioned lack of free time).

I don't think, given my schedule, that I'll be able to put together enough documentation (particularly the video) to make a valid entry for the Hackaday Prize, although I was working on it before the Prize existed, and will work on it in the future despite any eligibility for any prizes.  In any case, I know this is a sufficiently low-glamor project that it won't be high on anyone's list of awesome entries that make you go "ooh!"  That's just kind of the way I roll.

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