Just used the rf butler1 code running on the arduino to control the lights in the house for the first time, exciting stuff. I've been reading the other rf (radio frequency) signals sent by the remote controls that are controlling the lights for a while, but I've not been able to send my own signals so as to control the lights myself*. Or so I thought! Seems I had it right all along, I was sending the right signals but I forgot that I'd need to register the arduino with each of the light switches... so a bit of tweaking of the code1, registered it with a few switches and I can now control the lights from my own code and my own hardware... I'm pretty close to being able to sell the wifi link2 which would be nice. I've had some trouble with it recently, the company that make them lightwaverf have done a "remote update" of the software that runs it that has fouled some of it up.
In on my own tonight, hence this tinkering. The boys are in bed and I've been playing electronics for a few hours now. Clare is out with Kevin as he is visiting from the USA for a few days. I was feeling a bit hard done by, we had planned to get a babysitter and me go out too but it didn't work out, so Clare surprised me with some wine and some chocolate before she went, lovely! So I've not even had any of my home brew tonight either. Maybe that's why the diy electronics has gone so smoothly...
*Yes, I've been controlling the lights for ages but via someone else's hardware2, now it's all DIY.
arduino: Microcontroller, hardware prototyping platform, a tiny specialised computer.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Married + father to two, I am a full stack web developr, + I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home-automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.