.NET developement - Home automation

See if you can get one of these in Greece:

KaKu: http://www.klikaanklikuit.nl (in dutch but look at the images)
CoCo: [url]http://www.coco-technology.com/index_EN.htm[/url]
HomeEasy: http://www.homeeasy.eu

thanks for info, but i didnt find them for Greece until now.

But i found the above link that ships items here, i remember u stated on another post that you use ELRO.
Is this what i need?

http://goo.gl/MlGHZ

but it doesnt say anything about 433mhz

Yes, I have those same ELRO switches here on my desk and they use 433mhz.

(time warp back to earlier posts)
Has anyone plugged in a USB ZWAVE device into a Fez with USB Host and seen what it enumerates as? In the past 6 hours I’ve been looking at Z-Wave again (since there’s now a few more things made for it that have AU plugs and AU frequencies). Be interested to see what chance there might be to run it from a Fez.

i have z-wave but not the fez board yet on my hands. So i can’t test it yet.

Here’s an option if you want the cell phone connection on the cheap: Cheap And Easy SMS Via GSM For Your MCU | Hackaday

I’m looking at this for my UAV for live 2-way data connection

im ordering the board and 2 sensors now from the eu reseller of GHI (antratek).
Fez Cobra
Humidity and Temperature Sensor SHT15 (its from sparkfun)
PIR Motion Sensor (from Parallax)

To remind you i also ordered the RF433 from ebay to make it communicate with the wireless power socket for the lights

so do i need FEZ Cobra Prototype Kit too? any wires , or something for power needed? or its everything that i need in the board?
because im buying that kind of hardware first time and it will come from different country so if i miss something i have to reorder.

any fast help appreciated before i order it thanks :))

[quote]Here’s an option if you want the cell phone connection on the cheap: Cheap And Easy SMS Via GSM For Your MCU | Hackaday

I’m looking at this for my UAV for live 2-way data connection[/quote]

This is a serial modem with prolific USB<->RS232 chip.
You do not need to hack this with FEZ. GHI supports Prolific chips so you can just plug this into FEZ and use it. You can’t do networking (TCP/IP) but you can dial numbers and send SMS messages using AT commands.

Maybe this was mentioned, but for some sensors you don’t need any kind of processor with Xbee - it has digital/analog ins. Being a nub, I got a Panda and two Xbees for your run of the mill wireless garage door sensor/controller thinking I needed the Panda to control my remote sensor.

Then I realized I didn’t need it at all, and just plugged my magnetic switch into the Xbee’s digital in/ground (it has internal pullup), and plugged a relay switch into another digital port (configured for digital out) and I can now both get the state of the door (open/closed) and trigger the relay switch which closes the circuit on the attached wireless garage door opener. It’s powered by 4 AA batteries and I’m hoping the batteries last a long while.

So depending on how complex the interface to your sensor is, you can just do a “dumb” sensor with Xbee.

Now I have a Panda freed up to do something else with :wink:

ok i made many things until now with my cobra :slight_smile:

well i have some questions. I want now to make a website to upload values of temp, humi etc that my sensors take.

What methods should i use?

p.s. Gus move this to projects page plz :slight_smile:

We do not usually move topics as users may already have links to them.

I also suggest you start new questions with new thread so GHI and the community can help you better.