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Home Automation: Integrating Salus RT500 RF in OpenHAB using a Jeelink

Posted on November 23, 2013 by sillyscientist

We recently had a new boiler fitted with the Salus RT500RF controller. I’ve been playing around with a lot of home automation recently involving LightwaveRF, RFXCom unit and OpenHAB. Having temperature monitoring in my lounge and bedroom I really wanted … Continue reading →

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Energy Monitor – part 2

Posted on March 5, 2010 by sillyscientist

So, now I hopefully(!) have my cable which will give me access to the UART RX of the CC128 energy monitor. Time to try it out and begin processing some data with it! Firstly, I go to the XMOS website … Continue reading →

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Energy Monitor – Part 1

Posted on March 3, 2010 by sillyscientist

My energy monitor arrived today! It’s working well – I was slightly worried about how good the reception would be for the transmitter, but I am pleasantly surprised that even with the receiver 3 floors above the transmitter it seems to … Continue reading →

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Lasers and Submarines

Posted on February 20, 2010 by sillyscientist

Over the last few weeks I have come across some nice XMOS based projects: 1) Laser Cutter Not massively complex in terms of software – but a pretty cool outcome. UART in – granite engravings out! Nice… Maybe an ethernet … Continue reading →

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Embedded Traffic Monitor

Posted on December 21, 2009 by sillyscientist

This is the initial release of the embedded traffic monitor which I implemented on an XMOS XC-3 development kit. It has a 256×32 VFD attached to it with a custom board that was designed from another application (hence the buttons/IR … Continue reading →

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