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  • 💬 AM612 Passive Infrared Sensor Breakout Board
    M MasterCATZ

    @waspie

    https://robu.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pir-BM612.pdf

    planning on switching over to these as well

    sensitivity setting and better times

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  • 💬 AM612 Passive Infrared Sensor Breakout Board
    M MasterCATZ

    all good at least I can steal your sensor hole placements and can stumble along modding in KiCAD

    tho unsure why the board size is smaller when I converted it it seems to trim along where the cover's holes are and not leaving any meat behind

    did you come across any other sensors better than this for the price?

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  • 💬 AM612 Passive Infrared Sensor Breakout Board
    M MasterCATZ

    Or a 12x DIP switch and a Jumper

    Jumper for the shortest and longest Time settings
    Then pads for installing the 12 Resistors for Time in Seconds the LED / Relay etc is activated for ?

    also, how were you mounting these boards with no screw holes? just something for the lens cover to clip into

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  • 💬 AM612 Passive Infrared Sensor Breakout Board
    M MasterCATZ

    Thanks for the breakout board, but would it be too much to ask for a revision that can have potentiometers mounted?
    so resistors do not need to be changed when tinkering with 15x settings? either SMD or Through-Hole Trimmer

    0-300k None?,0-1M

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  • one-wire network type switch for relay?
    M MasterCATZ

    as I now have my one-wire network running for my temperature probes

    I am now wanting to control some heaters and fans, is there anything I can use with domoticz that uses the one-wire system?

    http://www.datasheetspdf.com/PDF/SSR-40DA/789332/3

    ideally looking to control this relay something 3-5v DC driven from 1-wire setup for 240v AC switching for backup heaters for when there is a quick drop in temperature, just unsure what I should be looking for to control it

    I believe DS2408 8-channel, programmable I/O 1-Wire chip is a possibility that is quite common but only needs to control one or two device's at each location, are there any single channel possibilities? DS2406 / DS2413 ? ideally, a pre built module that I can add my own relay? a lot of the pre built relays are quite low on the AMP

    ideally something like this
    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/5V-1-Channel-Relay-Module-Shield-for-Arduino-Uno-Meage-2560-1280-ARM-PIC-AVR-DSP-/232380878471?epid=707943971&hash=item361aface87:g:Ou4AAOSwVJhZSgJH

    but for 1-wire network like this would work

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1-Wire-8-Channel-Relay-Module-Board-based-on-Dallas-DS2408-chipset-/181253848913?var=&epid=534808210&hash=item2a33923f51:m:mGakh0Ev_T_fzzBfM6Se18g

    but why pay for 7 relays that will never be used

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    @wallyllama thanks that is what I feared, and would have made the job a lot easier
    how ever I was thinking about doing it the other way to keep the other probes already made backward compatible as they used pins 1-4

    just trying to weigh up the pro's and cons
    also out of all those 3 way splitters only 15x actually have all pins functional ...

    so trying to think of a way to still use the dodgy ones by having redundancy's in place

    I think the way the PSU is wired up at the moment is the correct way
    things don't seem to be stressed out this time

    I am also raising my polling times as I think I read somewhere it takes the sensors 750ms to perform a function and uses 1.5 mA each?

    Sensor Poll Period: 1000 to 30000
    Switch Poll Period: 100 to 1000

    my way of thinking this should still have all 60 sensors read in 1 min?
    60 sec / 1000ms for Switch Poll period?

    edit kept my original pin out just doubling up instead of having in/out

    I will just change the colors to make it easier to put into the jacks
    with out doing A / B standard Ethernet wiring

    Pin 1 (White/Green) - Power return or ground
    Pin 2 (Green) - +5V
    Pin 3 (White/Blue) - Power return or ground
    Pin 4 (Blue) - DQ (data in)

    Pin 5 (White/Orange) - 1-Wire return or ground
    Pin 6 (Orange) - +5V
    Pin 7 (White/Brown) Power return or ground
    Pin 8 (Brown) - DQ (data out)

    this way a ground will be on every twisted pair
    voltage is higher now

    and now that I just soldered everything up, I notice I don't even need the pull-up because I am using external PSU anyhow
    I knew I should have put in a bypass switch

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    anyone know the correct way I should be using an external power source

    I powered them up directly with + - still running to the pi and blew the external 2a 5v power pack ( it also powered up the pi and I believe back-feeding this way removes surge protection )

    then I tried with the GND and DQ connected with the pi doing the pull up , external PSU ( 30A rated 5v rail 450w 3.3v 12v 5v ) looked like it was shorting out dropping .2v per probe and changing sound as tho it was under load how ever I am currently using its 3A port

    I then tried with just the DQ connected not much luck

    then I moved the bread board over the PSU and had the 4.7k pull up on its end and DQ / GND connected to the pi , I seem to have some connections, but getting a lot of unknown vendor type errors
    but PSU does not seem to be under load

    http://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/DS2482-100.pdf
    I might get one of these I2C one wire bridge that can adjust the strength of the pull-up dynamically as the network grows

    http://videos.cctvcamerapros.com/voltage-drop-calculator

    has got me thinking I might double up on the strands 24 gauge has too much voltage drop @ 5v

    should I just treat each pair as a wire or should I have ground on each twist ?

    ie
    ( p1,p2 GND) Green pair
    ( p3,p4 VCC ) Blue pair
    (p5.p6 DQ ) Orange pair
    ( p6,p7 GND ) Brown pair

    or
    (p1 ground p2 VCC ) Green pair
    (p3,ground p4 VCC ) Blue pair
    (p5,ground,p6 DQ ) Orange pair
    (p7,ground,p8 DQ ) Brown pair

    or any other combo, I would rather use a 2amp PSU than a 30 amp .. but thats so far the only way to keep these things powered up in a daisy chain

    https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/24-gauge-wire-if-you-double-up-strands-what-equivalence-gauge.108649/

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    might be best to NOT buy the ones I got , just discovered 1x port of just about all of them was not working correctly
    ( pins on slight angle off setting alignment )

    causing the probes to be in parasitic mode

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    @zboblamont I will be able to test the lengths today, making another 20x temperature sockets and I have a heap of 20m cat5 cables to chain from

    I am using a trim pot to adjust at the breadboard, so far still 4.7

    if I was going to do it again would use a 5 or 10k high precision the 5% pot too dodgy

    still yet to use resistors on each drop and I have a 10v 1000uf capacitor on each ground / vcc, no idea if it helps or not

    you could also run a 100mbs LAN plus temp probes each using 4x of the 8 cat5 pins

    http://www.108relays.ca/dl/1_Wire_Design_Guide_v1.0.pdf

    edit

    it looks like you have to keep the lengths and probe numbers equal if your splitting them off like a tree

    if I had 1 side 6m longer with more probes than the other side a probe read 0 deg

    added more probes on the other side and they read fine again
    ( touch wood )

    I have placed a probe at the end with no capacitor, can not get it to connect

    when I make more probes tomorrow will try that spot again with a capacitor

    for now will try the one with out capacitor at the first split near the pi to see what happens, it's pitch black now time for bed :P

    strange thing just tried another stock probe with no capacitor and can not get that to work either and I was running these ones inside all day
    for some reason voltmeter reads neg millivolts

    now I just want to build another cap probe to see whats going on

    edit , either I wired something backwards or maybe i just hit the limits adjusting trim pot now as even the DS18B20 on the bread board stopped responding

    edit, somethings not right pulled the main link and its receiving 0 deg from sensors not even plugged in.

    new probe and bread board temps working tho

    set @ 4k , tried adding another probe at 1st split all died again,
    I'd say at my limits without the 100~150 resistors trying to push 6x 20m cables
    voltage still 4+

    but I am sus as to why a probe felt warm where a cap was done, unsure if it was still from the soldering heat or not so I might have something miss wired as I was running as the day light was dropping fast
    ( this setup is for monitoring tanks in my polytunnels no lights apart from the flash light in my mouth )

    the goal was 3 x 20m on each side split at the breadboard with ~5m long branches running of each join with 2x probes about every 1 m with 1m long lengths approx 60x DS18B20 and about 210m of cable

    unfortunately, I was 1 section short the 5th section would not work
    so 50 probes 175m cable

    I'll try again in a daisy chain formation later on

    currently using raspberry pi 2 B and domoticz

    I ended up doing rj45 as they worked out cheaper than the rj11/14
    I paid $20 for 100 , also why I did not add the capacitor inside like I was going to so they could be used in other areas for LAN, hopefully, no one tries to plug a laptop into them

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CS-5X-US-10x-Practical-3-Way-RJ45-LAN-Network-Ethernet-Splitter-Connector-Beige/201963874318

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    thanks for your guidance
    parts arrived yesterday and just got the probes reading

    how ever I could not get OWFS to work,
    https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/1Wire

    sudo i2cdetect -y 1
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
    00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

    but using /sys/bus/w1/devices
    they are there

    cat w1_slave
    a2 01 4b 46 7f ff 0c 10 49 : crc=49 YES
    a2 01 4b 46 7f ff 0c 10 49 t=26125

    edit

    actually quite happy, using 5v and daisy chained a heap of cat5 cables together for testing, over 100m all working good

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  • MySensors weather station
    M MasterCATZ

    looking good

    I need to beef up my solar panels

    I get 1 week before the low battery indicator switches on and I loose half my distance

    instead of using 2x AA 1.5v batteries ( or 1.2v rechargeables )

    I am just going to run 18650 cells and use a 4v solar panel

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    another thing does anyone know if putting capacitors in the daisy chain will cause any issues?

    I figured haveing a capacitor near a sensor would help keep the power stable?

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    so what I think I will do is

    use a trimpot at the start so resistance can be adjusted as sensors/length are altered

    cat5 wiring

    Dry end has 2x rj11 ends
    *example
    rj11 (in) pins 1,2,3,4
    rj11 (out) pins 5,6,7,8

    Pin 1 (White/Green) - Power return or ground
    Pin 2 (Green) - +5V
    Pin 3 (White/Orange) - Power return or ground
    Pin 4 (Blue) - DQ (data in)

    Pin 5 (White/Blue) - 1-Wire return or ground
    Pin 6 (Orange) - +5V
    Pin 7 (White/Brown) Power return or ground
    Pin 8 (Brown) - DQ (data out)

    all wires join onto the DS18B20 and waterproofed

    then up at the dry end use rj11 joiners, they can be pulled apart and have resistors added if needed and if I need to take a sensor out of the daisy chain, it is just a matter of bypassing a joiner

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RJ11-6P4C-Female-Modular-Telephone-Cable-Wire-Straight-Coupler-Joiner-White-/111725356245?hash=item1a0359a4d5:g:miQAAOSwWxNY2l0I

    or I just do the STUBS thing 100-150Ω resistor inside a 3 way splitter and have a normal premade waterproofed sensor used with rj11 connector

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/10pcs-RJ-11-RJ-14-Phone-Line-Cable-Coupler-3-Way-Splitter-Connector-Adapter-/290986642163?hash=item43c027caf3:g:LD4AAOxySy9SRSLm

    either should work in the fish room tanks are on racks stacked to each other

    so how would I go about doing a 1-wire breakout, as each rack would be pushing the length and I have 14x racks ~3m long 4 tiers
    I might be possible to do the daisy chain per 2 racks
    is their a way to do it without using multiple Arduino , is there some hardware that would allow multiple runs of 1-wire ?

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    looks like I will have to make my own sensors that Daisy chain directly off the sensor

    https://edwardmallon.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/using-ds18b20-sensors-to-make-a-diy-thermistor-string-pt-1-the-build/

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    RFM69 does look promising even if
    I have to power it

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    Ok that's what I wanted to know as I did read here
    http://www.jon00.me.uk/onewireintro.shtml
    50mm was as long as you could go

    however, how does that work if the probe wire is long?

    would I be better off making my own probe's with 6 wires with
    In / Out ? that then links to the next part of the daisy chain ?

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    darn you beat me before the edit

    http://www.hw-group.com/products/sensors/Temp-1Wire_en.html

    has got me thinking about telephone hubs

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1pc-RJ11-Jack-5-Ways-Outlet-Phone-Modular-Line-Adapter-Splitter-Connector-/311408926547?hash=item48816b1f53:g:iVsAAOSwyQtVrK8u

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    what is your recommendation for the wireless hardware

    "Serial WiFi Module ESP8266 module ESP01"

    are what I have tried in the past with poor results

    I have been thinking I could make a wireless module, disconnect the sensor from 1 wire and I could plug the probes into wifi when I need to?

    how do I go about Daisy chaining the probes
    are there any simple splice crimp connector out their?
    ( might use telephone cables or ribbon cables as I don't think I should use RJ45 just incase someone mistakes as a LAN port )

    I did come across this

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/DS18B20-Waterproof-Digital-Temperature-Sensor-With-Adapter-Module-for-Arduino-WS-/182526807558?hash=item2a7f720e06:g:lW4AAOSw-itXp~d7

    but to me, it just looks like its purpose is just to add the pull-down resistor?

    does every probe need the resistor or is only 1x needed?
    also any probes for PH that work using 1-wire? or water level sensor?

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  • help needed with multiple temp sensor data logging project
    M MasterCATZ

    No metal pumps around here everything is air operated and plastic pipes

    it's only the 20kl tanks that have 6m depths, the others have 3m deep sumps
    ( pretty much the further down into the ground the more stable the temperatures so I run far amount of plumbing deep underground, that and I use airlift pumping techniques )

    It is mostly the 200L breeding tanks I want to do
    they are only 46cm deep
    and contain the Tropical Fish I am trying to keep tabs on
    all pretty close to each other on racked shelves

    I am just unsure if my wireless issues are from all the water around here or not , ages ago I was looking into XBee, but that was about as far as that got

    the building is only wooden frame with plastic cladding with multiwall polycarbonate. I don't see that affecting wireless, however my Fitzbox NBN Modem is always complaining about radar jamming signal's, so it could just be the military base that is not to far away

    looked into "reliable 1-wire networks" it seems most users had problems over 30m but it does seem it can do the distance of 100m if cat5 is used, I may as well use the cat6 I have here

    I will have to go back through my browser history I had found a probe that was around 10+m long that was waterproof

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/10-Waterproof-DS18B20-Temperature-Temp-Sensor-Digital-Thermal-Probe-1M-AU-Stock-/182488631263?_trksid=p2385738.m2548.l4275

    does seem quite cheap however

    strange now all I see are the DS18B20 but at least i know they make 15m long probes

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Waterproof-Temperature-Temp-Sensor-Thermal-Probe-Thermometer-DS18B20-3-Wires-/131703940047?var=&hash=item1eaa2aa3cf:m:mZPEGGFSoBX79XQ4RR57Mog

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  • Round water tank level sensor
    M MasterCATZ

    very interesting and another Aussie, QLDer here

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