Lars

German developer, who likes to play with everything that comes in his way

Nov 6, 2015

I currently writing a open source Home automation in my freetime. The project is mainly a Webapplication where the user can add Datapoints. These datapoints get their data from a Raspberry PI or something else. In the near future I want to make that you can control other Elements like heating, electric socket or light switch.

Sometimes I think about creating a blog, but then I don´t know about what to write. Maybe in the near future I will make it.

Lars

German developer, who likes to play with everything that comes in his way

Nov 7, 2015

Thanks for your tipp :)

Jan Vladimir Mostert

Idea Incubator

Nov 7, 2015

Controlling other elements in the house is fairly easy, get yourself a PIC Development board (or if you want to get your hands dirty with VHDL, go the Altera Route). Then using some optical couplers like the MOC3062 or MOC3063 you can start switching on / off high-voltage stuff (the one I used some time ago could switch up to 600V, so perfect for switching 120V/240V devices.)

The alternative is using relays, but they are noisy when they switch, less reliable, usually can't handle the same kind of load you can send via a MOC and bulky compared to MOC.

Sounds like a fun project, enjoy!!

Lars

German developer, who likes to play with everything that comes in his way

Nov 6, 2015

Okay, thanks I will take a look at it. ;)

@Björn a project must make fun and it is unimportant what it is. When a dating side makes fun than make it :)

Justin Njoh

MVPs & POCs on NoSQL DBs - why not ?

Nov 6, 2015

I listened to a talk yesterday where a guy from Bosch was talking about their strategy for the IoT. I'm yet to do it myself but check out their site - it may give you some ideas / inspiration.

Björn

Insane Full-Stack Developer

Nov 6, 2015

Wow, now i feeld bad , i want to set up a page for singles and you are controlling a house... :P

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