Smart Home controllers

Started breadboarding the sensor nodes for the ESP8266's

nasty pic of the breadboard in action:

From the bottom up, DTH22, reed switch ( between the 2 red wires and the green blocking the holes). LDR and wires going to the relay Power is coming from an arduino at 3.3v and 5v for the relay contacts. Talking to it via telnet from my tablet for now. Next up breadboard out 2 sensors, 2 nano's and start talking to the controller. Hopefully this weekend I can pickup so supplies to finsih my test bed.

Fired up the computer and tested both the esp8266-01's they work:

wdt reset

load 0x40100000, len 1320, room 16

tail 8

chksum 0xb8

load 0x3ffe8000, len 776, room 0

tail 8

chksum 0xd9

load 0x3ffe8308, len 412, room 0

tail 12

chksum 0xb9

csum 0xb9

2nd boot version : 1.3(b3)

SPI Speed : 40MHz

SPI Mode : QIO

SPI Flash Size : 8Mbit

jump to run user1

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ready

AT+GMR

AT version:0.23.0.0(Apr 24 2015 21:11:01)

SDK version:1.0.1

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Apr 27 2015 13:55:14

OK

AT+CWMODE=3

OK

AT+CWJAP="removed","removed"

WIFI CONNECTED

WIFI DISCONNECT

+CWJAP:1

FAIL

AT+CWLAP

+CWLAP:(4,"MYSSIDE",-74,"MYMACADDRESS",9)

OK

But as you can see my access point is too far away. Being on the second floor at one end of the house and the router is in the basement on the other side of the house. Go figure. I planned to use a separate wireless router anyways. So its not to big of a set back. Next up get my arduino mini's coded and some code for the esp8266's to be sensor nodes.

I built a stand for my fish tank. Why you ask? Easy it's part of the home automation system. Granted got a 35 gallon tank with no fish (was asked to add that feature.) But I got a shipment of goods waiting to be picked up tomorrow.

New todo list.

Will be setting up a mock power system including 220v (u.s.a power here but people can apt). To simulate everything. Only got two of everything so I will have to test based on that back to my master control.

Hey its progress..

Oh and edit... if you don't know how to work with mains voltage. Don't do it. I am actually a trained professional ( I stayed at a holiday Inn last night). But in all seriousness when I post the how to please don't let the smoke out of you.

code optimization is nearly complete and ready for the sensor network. Code will be published after I find the bug I tossed in for fun. Next up is interface. My soldering iron is dead and parts for the sensors are not all here from china. But I scored window and doo sensors for a buck each from the dollar store. So will quick hack them etc. Working 12 hour days right now so updates are slower. Will improve next week .

seems its a bit harder to work in the small space of the 328p than i thought. I need to push alot more to the EPROM than I thought. I am going to try re-skinning the refresh area's of the program by storing it in the EPROM, which makes skinning the interface harder.

I need 10k bytes for code and some leftovers for ram. Its proving to be a challenge.

new additions:

hot water heater control ( it runs all day but is only needed at certain times so, why not control that?)

and for the main board water irrigation system ( this was asked but not sure if needed quite yet)

The menu system is done. Time to switch gears and start on the hardware. (Which I hope the mailman brings to me today). I need to prototype the following

Temp sensor /Humidity

Optoisolator with relays

Speaker /w Amp

Microphone

PIR sensor

Then move to the ESP8266 and do the security alarm sensors plus a few more relays to control outlets.

I need to do the cost analysis on either doing every outlet (one plug per) or just doing certain ones based on usage. Not doing both outlets because who wants to plug the vacuum in and then pull out the phone to turn it on?

edit: forgot the cheesy photo of the menu before I skin it:

Initially was going for a graphics based system.... Still going to but I found JOS (http://thecustomgeek.com/). Which has been updated in a few years. So I d/l'd updated it for the version of the adafruit libraries. I plan on having it theme-able like old school winamp. Still need someone good with graphics so it looks as good as the code. Added wireless strength and battery options since that was in the JOS already,

I know not so good at photos. prototype temp control over lay done. More to follow

Add a bitmap, need to link the source. its from a conky file that I pulled a 320x240 bitmap out of. but none of the files has the person's name. so I will google fu it.

found it http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Conky+Mech-Tex-1000?content=169935

and asked for permission to use art work

Did a quick and dirty Calendar function for it. Needs a RTC or sync time via network Which would be cheaper. This will add per room programming. Lot of functions will be able to be set here etc.