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[NietGiftig]

Can someone suggest me how to move ? I have basical skills on programming and i installed the openenergymonitor with no trouble, but i dont know which way to follow to switch the relays

This part of the forum is called "Show your projects", the topic name is rather nice

questions like this are better put in another part of the forum.
Let me see, what do you think of "Other questions and discussions"

[scubammx]

ops......... you are right , i am posting again in the other section!
sorry......

[Mike]

LED-matrix "monitor" for domoticz

16 x 32 RGB pixels, running on the same Pi as Domoticz.
Normally it is displaying time, inside and outside temperature, and weather condition via the symbol.
The icon also indicates alerts, and security status changes. I created my own font for the ymbols, i could share it if there is interest. The resolution is to low to really use text, it can only display 4-6 letters.

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These matrices shine very bright, so I used 2 layers of smokey acrylic to get the the brightness at an acceptable lowish level. I am still searching for a way to get the thing nicely flush mounted.

[Sine]

Hi Mike,

That looks very nice, I have some (yellow) serial matrixes kicking around, this would be a nice project for them.

[Larsja]

My kit for running Domoticz:
Hardware:
Rpi2 with Wifi USB
UZB1 for Z wave
RFLink Gateway for 433 Mhz, installed a 2,4ghz transceiver for MiLight etc yesterday
All wrapped up in a key-store-box from Biltema for the price of 7.5 eur

[kondrez]

tablet with jbl speaker in the kitchen to controle domoticz and watch tv or listen to music.



Rpi with relay board attachted to the gpio for controle of the ventilation system remote



tablet in the livingroom to controle scenes and lights also to see ip cameras amd icy thermostat.

[Evelen]

From left:
RFXtrx433E - MiLight Bridge - UZB1

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[kondrez]

Nice did you change the antenna of the rfxcom? And hows is the mi light wifi bridge and the zwave.me thinking about buying them. Have some led strips in the house wich are not implemented yet. Read some opinions about the zwave adapter not working well with fibaro.

[Evelen]

Nice did you change the antenna of the rfxcom? And hows is the mi light wifi bridge and the zwave.me thinking about buying them. Have some led strips in the house wich are not implemented yet. Read some opinions about the zwave adapter not working well with fibaro.

Yes I have this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Nagoya-NA-7 ... SwuMFUe9Iy

MiLight works good, but not 100% stable (one-way communication), but stable enough for lights.

Have no problems with zwave.me, but i Don't have any Fibaro devices.

[bizziebis]

Today I finally made something I wanted to make a looong time ago: A rfxtrx433e LAN edition

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Internally I disconnected the Rx and Tx going to the FTDI chip and moved them to an external USR TCP-232-T module. This is a TTL serial to ethernet module.
I also changed the onboard 3v3 voltage regulator to a LDO regulator capable of outputting 500mA. I don't know if it was necessary, but I couldn't find any info about the regulator on board. I didn't want to wait for the smoke to come, so I just changed it

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The Raspberry Pi is obsolete now and can be removed.

[kiwi]

@bizziebis do you have some photos of your hack ? Really want to do the same on my side :p

[Sine]

Today I finally made something I wanted to make a looong time ago: A rfxtrx433e LAN edition

I also changed the onboard 3v3 voltage regulator to a LDO regulator capable of outputting 500mA

Nice work ! That gives it some placement freedom.

Why the beefed up regulator ? The tcp232 has a onboard 3.3V regulator (a LT1117 IIRC) and can be powerd directly with 5V over its VDD line.

[bizziebis]

Today I finally made something I wanted to make a looong time ago: A rfxtrx433e LAN edition

I also changed the onboard 3v3 voltage regulator to a LDO regulator capable of outputting 500mA

Nice work ! That gives it some placement freedom.

Why the beefed up regulator ? The tcp232 has a onboard 3.3V regulator (a LT1117 IIRC) and can be powerd directly with 5V over its VDD line.

Yes you a right. That was something I noticed a bit late, I really was in the understanding I bought a 3v3 version. It was late that evening

@gordonb3
You could add a ESP8266 to it make it wireless. But I don't like the idea of wireless connecting to a device which wireless switches my contacts

[Mike]

Hey Sine,

I'm not allowed to answer your PM.
I am indeed using an adafruit panel. Im driving it in python which they claim is not so optimal, got some flickering issues in the start, I think because it is prefferably driven real time. got around the flickering by using only 2 tones of rgb, in my case no blue.
Figuring out nice fonts was quite tricky with the limited pixels available, I did not like the anti alliasing it was doing with most fonts, so i found 2 fonts that looked nice with 5/7 pixels height. Additionally I made my own font for the status/weather icons.
With a second script the weather forecast is dug up out of the json from a WU sensor in domoticz.

If you want I can clean up my code a bit and put some comments in and post it here, or send me a PM with your email.

[ackcsaba]

Hello Mike!

I can't send PM to you.

Can you send me ( or post here) the code of LED-matrix "monitor" for domoticz?

Thanx
Csaba

[cyberclwn]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share my first "bigger" project.
A solar powered weather-station hidden inside a bird-house.

It's a Wemos D1 mini with a BH1750 Lux sensor and a BME280.
The Wemos is powered by a 18650 (2200mah) cell which itself is charged with 2x 5v 160mW solar panels, through a tp4056 charger board.

I really like to play around with the Wemos, they are so much fun and capable of a lot of things.

[bvansteyn]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share my first "bigger" project.
A solar powered weather-station hidden inside a bird-house.

It's a Wemos D1 mini with a BH1750 Lux sensor and a BME280.
The Wemos is powered by a 18650 (2200mah) cell which itself is charged with 2x 5v 160mW solar panels, through a tp4056 charger board.

I really like to play around with the Wemos, they are so much fun and capable of a lot of things.

Wow! Nice! Do you have some tutorial or how to so I'm able to make this myself?

I like it very much!

[blauwebuis]

I'd love a tutorial as well, as I'm literally making the same thing!

[cyberclwn]

Hey,

I didn't make a tutorial. But i added some kind of description on this forum, here .

To avoid poluting/hijacking this thread.