Posts made by Lawrence Helm

I never got this going, have to play around with it again, but one thing I did do wrong was put the clip around both wires, instead of just the positive. I.e. putting it around + and - will give 0.

Thank you, I did find some examples, but when I tried removing and including code I would get a blank screen. But besides that, its a great thing to have under the build section. I'm sure others would benefit, making an awesome thing even better

Re: LCD displays

One thing that is missing from my sensors build part is an LCD node, say I have a temperature sensor in the garage and want to display it on an LCD node in the kitchen. There are many projects that have an LCD display but nothing simple for the non programmer like me

Thank you

@Boots33 Have you thought about sending the days available. i.e. calculate daily usage and divide that by the water that is still available? would have to roll the numbers i.e. say take the last two weeks of how much the water dropped in a day averaged out... if that makes sense.

Methane sensor Aliexpress

@dennis_henk nope but looks similar to a roller blind, you can check out rflink and domoticz

@palande.vaibhav o.k if all connected o.k, it should show up, remember it will send something when the temperature changes so hold your fingers on the temperature sensor, and it should show up...

For a start just install domoticz, or other software on a pc (controller), connect a gateway to that pc and make a sensor, then go to the software website and read how to add the gateway and sensors

Either https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/12V-DC-power-distribution-9-way-PCB-board-terminal-block-for-switching-power-supply-electricity-current/32506638397.html?spm=2114.13010208.99999999.261.EGpgTj or https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/Panel-Mount-10-Position-Power-Distribution-Fuse-Module-Board-For-AC-DC-5-32V/32665224187.html?spm=2114.13010208.99999999.267.EGpgTj looks like a nice solution, going to do something like this my self soon

Another idea would be, a mysensors network strength scanner, something like http://hackaday.com/2016/02/24/quickie-wifi-scanner/

I have wondered about putting a solar powered repeater in the middle...

What about a distance sensor?

Hi,

I had an idea, for anyone entering the contest, and for anyone that has ideas, but not the knowhow could post it here too

So some people have used V_text to send a temperature from the controller to a node with an LCD display. Which I'm still planning on implementing my self.

But for something more interesting that could be implemented, are gauge displays or something like the following:
http://hackaday.com/2015/12/07/old-school-analog-meters-tell-you-the-weather/
https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-physical-dashboard/overview

cheers

Larry

Not sure if implemented but pidome was talking about it in a video,https://youtu.be/ROlXtpefjqM

Great work, I tried to get the other v_text example working to do the same, but gave up, will give this a go! Thanks for sharing

@Hoffan - how did you get on? Interested to know before I order some components

Just a question, are the eq-3 radiator valves quiet? As I have a wood burner and my thought was ramp up the heat when the fire is lit, but then once the rooms are at temperature, close the valves to minimum to keep the fire going for as long as possible, this is usually when we are sleeping

very cool, might have a go at some stage to try and use the nfc variant... So that you can open it with your phone http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-PN532-NFC-RFID-module-User-Kits-for-Arduino-compatible/2009097698.html?spm=2114.01020208.3.1.piLmyG&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_9_79_78_77_80,searchweb201644_5,searchweb201560_6

Haven't had the chance to put this in the garage yet, but awesome work!

Did you ever get this going if so can you share the code? My project is similar have a few temp sensors around and send them to an lcd screen node. Lcd can be a repeater to the gateway for logging on domoticz, also if so what extra code did you add on the temp sensor side?

@epierre the SHT10 that I put a link to has the following statements:

• Can be completely submerged.

and

• Usage:The probe can be directly embedded in the soil

Also the following link: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1298

Are your thoughts still the same, before I bite the bullet

Also looking at soil moisture probes, either https://www.tindie.com/products/miceuz/i2c-soil-moisture-sensor/ which is based on the chirp one. Just need to seal the sides, or otherwise http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Soil-temperature-and-humidity-sensors-SHT10/1773013_32356151782.html

Is anyone using the SHT ones ? (hopefully no pun intended)

did anyone convert this succesfully? I'm having some problems, this would make a great example build I looked at other ones like "node to node " but something simple like this would be great to start building from..

Cool, I had this happen as well, so great fix! Now all I need it to do is talk to domoticz, not picking it up yet...

I think a stink sensor, with a red flashing light on the outside door is the way to go. Lol or an auto spray after you leave...

@hek About to make this sensor, very cool! I had already brought a 12v traffic light before I saw this, so now ordered an LED ring, as that makes a lot more sense getting closer to the target area. But could you help out regarding the implementation of the timeout, as I'm pretty terrible at programing