@martim said in Case for mini weather station:

Waauw, this looks really great!

Thanks

It is actually called a radiation shield. Too bad you don't have a 3D printer. I did a design for one that I have posted on thingiverse.

Another one that seems promising is the LP2950 series. Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with these?

@neverdie Good points though.

So I was working on building myself a new serial gateway tonight when I realized that I am out of 3.3v TO-92 package regulators. I have some AMS1117 3.3v regulators, but they are in an SMT package making mounting them to a thru hole regulator near impossible. I figured since I need to buy more, I will go with LDO regulators. Are there any that perform better than others? Are there any things I should be watching out for? Is there a good place to buy them cheap where I can get them in a pack of 20 or so to stock up?

Still need to do some setup and sorting of things, but here are some pics of my newly remodeled workshop area.



I really need to get rid of that old Leader analog scope and get myself a DSO. It is a conversation piece though. I have it connected to my old heathkit square/sine wave audio function generator. Does anyone have a recommendation on a cheaper DSO that would be good for microcontroller work?

So I tried printing the cover for this with my original design using Cura as my slicer, and I couldn't get the logo to print right, plus the text under the LEDs was a bit too small. I then modified the design a bit and made the logo and text a bit bigger. I again tried printing it using Cura, but the logo still was missing some lines in the body. I then thought that part of the problem was the slicer I was using, so I tried it using Slic3r and I have to say, the logo came out MUCH better.

I ended up losing the Y in "My" Sensors and the ending "t" in "Transmit", but I am going to use the case the way I currently have it. Now I just have to assemble the new gateway. I am planning on making a whole new gateway and trying out the new 2.2.0 library. Hopefully my older 2.0.0 nodes will not have any issues with it, but that is why I plan on keeping my pro mini from my 2.0.0 gateway so I can revert back to that if I have to.

For anyone interested, here is an OpenSCAD rendering of the MySensors logo:

I tried posting the OpenScad code for this, but it is too long to add to a normal post. So here is a link to the OpenSCAD file.
MySensors_logo.scad

Special thanks to @hek for giving me the .svg file that allowed me to create this. I would be curious to see peoples uses for this.

Working on setting up a new work bench in my back room in my basement where my HA equipment rack is. I wanted to build a case for my serial nRF24L01-PA-LNA gateway built on a rev8 Easy Newbie board. I just had the board sitting on a shelf on my rack, and now I want to mount it on my MDF board with all of my other equipment. Here is the design that I came up with for the case.

This is the inside bottom of the case:

And here is inside the top of the case:

It has a spot for 3 - 5mm LEDs for the transmit, receive and error lights. There is a hole on the right side of the case for the PA-LNA antenna connector. The oval hole on the lower right side of the case is for the DC in jack. I had one of these in my parts bin:

The hole on the bottom right is for the FTDI adapter connection. I am using one of these adapters that has a mini-USB connector:

I have the case running on the printer now. I will post pics when it is done.

@mikee This was actually one of the reasons I switched from Domoticz to a Vera controller a couple years ago. The main issue at the time had to do with the use of V_VAR1 - V_VAR3 which is used to configure the valve names and the valve times. I wanted to have the ability to change the valve times.

For your situation though, you can modify your Zone names in the code by changing this bit:

// Name your Zones here or use Vera to edit them by adding a name in Variable3...
String valveNickName[17] = {
  "All Zones", "Zone 1", "Zone 2", "Zone 3", "Zone 4", "Zone 5", "Zone 6", "Zone 7", "Zone 8", "Zone 9", "Zone 10", "Zone 11", "Zone 12", "Zone 13", "Zone 14", "Zone 15", "Zone 16"
};

Depending on the number of zones you have, just change the names in quotes for Zone 1, Zone 2, etc... up to the number of valves that you have.

I have been told recently though that Domoticz now supports V_VAR(x), but I am not sure how to use it just yet.