Random Rubbish...

I was worried about my home insurance with all of the home-automation gear i have. So I came up with a solution.

I had an electrician build me this box with the 24Vdc and 24Vac power supplies inside. Isolating the mains completely and it's even got an electrical test tag attached!

$300 blown, but i should now be safe from my insurance company/

I had to go this far as even though I spent 4 years repairing colour monitors with 40KV EHT transformers its illegal for me to wire up a plug...

...and nothing in the whole house to cut, except a block of foam!

It took an adapter plate but the ZSC-1 scanning head fits the Roland SRM-20 mill.

All it will take now is decoding the electronics and writing the software!

should not be too difficult as most of them work by oscillating the pin... Time will tell! 

The old scanners been looking at me accusingly for years, its time to do something with it!

Running the following;

C-Gate/C-Bus (40 dimmers, 24 relays, 5 PIR's)

OpenHAB

OpenSprinkler

I'm migrating away from the 'pi for home automation...

Seeing the poor thing sitting at 95% CPU for a month made me feel guilty.

I love OpenSprinkler but don't love open loop control. A small change in the OSPi gpio_pins.py code let me directly drive (and sense!) the pins.

As I have disabled HDMI, I'm using P8_46 to P8_32 to drive the SSRs

Now that the proof of concept works I can build it on a proper PCB.

All that's left to be done is another program to monitor the i/o lines and reset the BBB if the solenoids stay on too long. 

First attempt at controlling the Roland SRM-20 milling machine.