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    • RE: OpenHAB, 230V Relays and external Switches

      So, it's been quite some time. The apartment is done so no more construction work. But I ended up changing the whole setup. My initial setup with pi zeros dind't go so well. It worked 90% of the time but sometimes the relays would bounce although I had them debounced (well I guess not that good) and with the whole cabeling I built an antenna, that started switching whenever some one walked through the room, so back to the basics, added opto couplers an rc's so the antenna behavior was gone, but everytime I pluged something in or out of the 230V Sockets some light would turn on or off. As my wife started to question the whole project I didn't bother to check if the power regulator of the pi was a mess or whatever the problem was. This is yet to be investigated. I bought the eq3 RX/TX boards. connected them to the relay board and the light switches and it works. It's great that I have a working solution but it's sad that it isn't my solution. I add some pics so you see what my Idea looked like.

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      posted in My Project
      dgds
      dgds
    • RE: OpenHAB, 230V Relays and external Switches

      Good morning guys,
      I got my first test setup yesterday. I didn't go with my initial idea to have the a pcb behind the wallmounted switches but to have everything centralized.
      My setup uses a raspberrypi with a script monitoring the GPIOS and sends/receives mqtt messages to/from my broker. So I'm able to tell openhab the current state of the relay and to send commands via openhab and to use multiple raspis and/or arduinos to add relay boards. Even if openhab fails I just need the raspi/arduino to work to switch my lights/sockets. Even if my pi fails I'll be able to switch the relay locally via a switch I'm going to build into the DIN Rail case. And if the relayboard fails I better have a torch :).

      Im getting the rest of the components today, as soons as I got everything mounted properly I add some pictures.

      posted in My Project
      dgds
      dgds