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More Home Control 2020

May 14, 2018February 2, 2020 Peter Scargillhome control23 Comments on More Home Control 2020

As of version 1.5.61 (now on 2.3.18 or higher) of the Home Control 2020 code,  I’ve  expanded the {debug} command considerably, added new Hitachi display commands and introduced a new MQTT topic called “otacomplete”. Here is the Bitbucket repository for the ESP8266 project, referred to also as ESP-GO. The Hitachi…

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HC 2018 Experiments

May 11, 2018May 20, 2018 Peter ScargillArduino, ATMEGA328, ESP12, ESP12E, ESP12F, ESP8266, Espressif, home control6 Comments on HC 2018 Experiments

Throughout the development of the Home Control 2018 project I’ve constantly had the software tied a via a serial umbilical to my PC to monitor passing messages, make sure all is well etc. and to periodically check on RAM space to make sure nothing I’m doing is running away with…

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ESP8266 Code Update

May 10, 2017June 13, 2017 Peter ScargillESP8266, ESP8266 SDK, home control32 Comments on ESP8266 Code Update

The code that forms a series of articles on this blog has now not been updated for some time – simply because it “just works” and has been doing so reliably for many months. However, I’ve been wanting to add bits to it and my problem was I was running…

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The Light Fantastic

November 4, 2016November 9, 2016 Peter ScargillESP8266, GY-30, home control, i2c10 Comments on The Light Fantastic

This morning, a long-forgotten package turned up for me – a cheap but accurate light level sensor from China – claimed to be around 1 lux accuracy and giving a direct output in lux. A small board is available here in Britain for around £4 or the identical board from…

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Midweek Ramblings

August 17, 2016August 17, 2016 Peter Scargillhardware, home control, i2c, Temperature logging13 Comments on Midweek Ramblings

Following my addition of the BME280 code to Home Control 2016, a couple of guys have suggested they might like to see more accuracy than the integer I use for temperature so I’ve added a new polled value {hightemperature} which is simply the temperature value *10 – but with that…

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Home Control Updates

July 8, 2016 Peter ScargillESP-12, ESP8266, home control6 Comments on Home Control Updates

For those following the home control project including the ROMS for ESP8266, I’ve made several changes in the last few days including a new uptime command {uptime?} returning a string of the time since last reset/power-cycle. Also added that to the debug output – also fixed a couple of minor…

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New PCB

May 18, 2016May 18, 2016 Peter ScargillESP12, ESP12E, ESP12F, ESP32, ESP8266, home control, nextion, PCB9 Comments on New PCB

After a slight hiccup with the new board (LED track missing) here’s the new board  – link for PCB here – as you can see, Aidan has made several improvements – smaller buttons, connector for DHT22 etc, markings for I2c (right now I only have support for the 8-output expander…

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Raspberry Pi 2 Fast Enough?

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 Peter Scargillhome control, Raspberry Pi 2, Windows 1011 Comments on Raspberry Pi 2 Fast Enough?

The Raspberry Pi is a nice, cheap little computer but for me it has never been fast enough – I’m not interested in making another media server (I have a DISKSTATION which does that just fine) but as I’ve recently been working with MQTT in my home control setup, I…

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