Posts made by Andy Pep

change the code a little bit and bingo you just made a light thermin .. cool for wearables

very nice refit

ok.

ill put a serial interface on to it and keep it running for debug data ..ill post up the next 3 hours of data later on this evening ..

to me it was very easy to hook up and get working ..well done Yveaux you have given my collection of esp's a new life when my phone recharges ill take a pic and upload it ..i like the way it reboots when connection is lost .. handy feature

well done kudos to you

ok i have used a esp8266mod dev board for my test hooked it up flashed the sketch and domoticz is seeing it ok and relaying my sensor data .. not a painfull process at all ..
will update tomorrow to see if it fails or goes fubar ..but so far so good :P)

i have a few esp8266mod demo bords a node mcu 9.5 a few esp-01, when i get home i will throw a gateway together and test all you like ..i do not mind doing alpha or beta testing if needed ..great work btw ...

also has anyone used this beta .. looks very cool aswell http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4540

kind regards
andy

well done l33t hack

hahaha love it

how about some gas sensors to measure co2 and methane and sulpher dioxide

ultrasonic to measure speed of turd under gravity or pressure

i use 2cell 7.4 volt recycled laptop battery packs for my projects thay have a natural discharge of 5% a month but do some reading and research on how to handle and charge them...and you should be fine..plus recycleing lappy batterys is good for the enviroment..and you also learn about the new breed of batterys and cells

cheers for that sparkman ... i was thinking of trying some sort of 433mhz sniffer to wifi serial setup..and hook up a 70cm coliner antenna to the radio with a bit of filtering and narrow the band down and see what is out there that can be used in a local (mesh) of sensors.. i turned my 70cm ham radio and tuned it down to 433.92 and there is a load of traffic out there .. how many are remote weather sensors same with 315mhz ...could be handy in mapping local climate hotspots and microclimates.....

well thats cool .. my recycled tipping bucket works and seams to be close to accurate ..

2 of my sensors have been up only a month now and i have spiders and i snail on the boxes...is there a mysensors example that can counnt how many bugs a bug zapper kills in 24 hours lol

evening
after cleaning my junk box i have found a mega 2560 i notice it has 3 serial,s on it aswell what can i use it for and are mysensors supporting this chip and setup ... i was thinking ubergatewat maybe ..

thoughts

slowly getting there........... just waiting on a slow boat from china with the rest of my parts

little update

mq135 is now up and running ..need to be callabrated but its close enough untill i have finished testing it ... and thay do eat some power...300ma just for the sensor.

i just need to get some potting compound for the rain gauge

just added a pir sensor .

this is getting addacting lol

cheers neverdie for the link to the post it has helped alot

my sensors arrived today im just awaiting on some nrf and esp radios and im away ..

tipping rain gauge retrofit will be started today or tomorrow

regards

andy

ok cool i understand ...and if people for what ever reason need that kind of accurcy then a simple dunio ntp gateway will do the job ..

is it possable ..to have accurite time is a need for a lot of projects..even more so for non net connected devices..

andy

Indeed Drjeff ...

i have learned more in the past 4 weeks in starting this journey than i did for a year makeing flashy led stuff lol. mind you i am thinking of a neopixel display lol
and the good thing is i can give back..the data collected will be of use to someone if not myself

andy

just a thought has anyone done this yet
i would like to make a mysensor gateway with some added steampunk analog gauges or make the steampunk display a slave gateway..

just a thought

andy

cheers for your kind comments ..

yes its going to be a learning curve ..but after finding mysensors my mind has woken up

some more sensor data http://www.staceyk.org/airSensors/sensorsetup.php

you know in this day and age air polloution is someting to think off.. it effects everyone.. and mysensors could be a very usefull resorce for this kind of remote sensing

now i have to finish my tipping bucket rain gauge and deploy that

..and now in the project list

make gateway box and add 433.
place mcu power radio in tipping bucket
assemble and test airqualty package
.. i am also thinking of useing a gyro mcu radio and power in to a 3d printed weather vane..

busy times ahead

regards
andy

i just found this for the sharp sensor "Sensitivity

These results are true only when the sensor is used with factory settings. The variable resistor shouldn't be changed. Attach:output.jpg Δ The table demonstrates that for every 0.1 mg more of dust, the voltage increases by 0.5 Volts.
There are other environmental sensors in the market that can detect particles with the size of 1 micrometer (1�m). This scale means that even pollen grains, and mildew spores can be detected. There is no information about this on GP2Y1010AU's datasheet except that it is stated that it can detect cigarette smoke.
0.6 mg/m3 of dust doesn't seem much when National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)'s recommended wood dust is 1 mg/m3 and used to be 5mg/m3 for softwoods. "

so yes it can do pollen ..and mould ...

looks like a good addition to my sensor network

more info here https://itp.nyu.edu/archive/physcomp-spring2014/sensors/Reports/GP2Y1010AU.html

with the mq-135 and a sharp sensor i can measure a lot of different gases and nasty stuff..

cheers neverdie

seams like a good starting point ...i have found the sharp particle sensor cheap on ebay i have got a combined mq-135 that is a one sensor package that covers a lot of gas's and poloution

data sheet for the mq-135 is here https://www.olimex.com/Products/Components/Sensors/SNS-MQ135/resources/SNS-MQ135.pdf

it covers everything i need includeing sulphers and its one package that helps keep the power useage down .. just the heaters in the sensor pulls 300ma so it will have to be a heavy duty lipo and mains powerd.

just need to think of a sample chamber ..

cheerd for the link

andy

went to the local thrift store today and picked up a archos win7 tablet for 10ukp its working but dog slow ..
dual core 1.20 atom gig of ram wifi bluetooth usb 80 gig hdd but i may boot a compact flash ..
so lastnight i did a 3 wipe format and a fresh install (win7 home basic) got it updated installed security and a fresh copy of domoticz.
so now i have a display and control hub with cloud data backup working very well with mysensors serial gateway and my small sensor package....lol..

i am loving this btw ...

i have orderd the mcu and radio for the tipping bucket refurb i decided for that to go as a stand alone device ..

i am now thinking of makeing an air and polloution sensor pack as i am near to a main road and i have breathing issues so some kind of local alarm would be good.

what sensors would you use .. i know current useage are very high and i have opted for a enclosed box with a airpump ect so i can power it via the mains ..and inside .

any advice on air and gas sensors would be great..

cheers
andy

this is the recycled tipping bucket rain gauge i found at the bottom of my garden

this is my sensor node .. fake uno bnp180 dht11 with a nrf radio .. all running an upcycled laptop batterys at 8volts 2c balenced lipos (home made)

heat shrinked sensors with plenty of air flow and venting with nrf radio

orignal radio and mcu for the rain gauge

some of todays data

see it did happen ...
lol
andy

lol ok .. pictures it is

hello

i would like to say a big thank you for this easy to understand libraries and tutorials great fun and habbit forming lol.

so far i have put together a serial gateway , a uno with a bmp180 and a dht11 as a node.. and its all working nice and stable throu domoticz..
i have found at the bottom of my garden an old maplin weather station tipping bucket rain gauge it was on some kind of 433 proto ..after imspection of the unit i gutted all of the old electronics ect out of it and gave it a good clean.. the plastics are in very good order and i managed to salvage the reed switch ..its a 5mil bucket aswell .

with thanks to Salmoides and his solar powerd mini weatherstation i managed to cobble up some of his code to get my sensor pack running. now i would like to add the ability to use my raingauge hooked up to my uno wireing it up is not an issue but the code may as well be in klingon lol ..i am no good at all codeing .. i left that bahind in the 1980s and i have only just got back in to doing it .

helppppppp

ps has anyone in the uk seen this ... could be an addition aswel http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-replacement-anemometer-for-n25fr-n76nf

hopefully
andy