Our latest “My Automated Home” story comes from Ian Gardner as well as his Domoticz powered wise home.
My house automation journey started around 12 years back with a single PC running Fedora Linux, motion and a single USB webcam watching over my driveway.
It was all thanks to a buddy as well as work associate (Steve L) who inspired me to provide it all a try.
Over time I played with X10, utilized an original RFXCom receiver with xpl-perl as well as experimented with different HomeEasy devices. Over the years my setup has changed as well as evolved and currently looks like this…
HP N36L Microserver running VMWare ESXi (The heart of the system)
Several multi-purpose virtual machines running Ubuntu 14.04LTS
VM running Domoticz as well as OpenZwave
USB RFXCom (433MHz)
USB connection from Cyberpower UPS
USB noise Card with USB powered speakers for notifications
USB Aeotec Z-wave controller
Philips Hue Controller
5x Philips Hue Lux bulbs
Philips Hue Bloom lamp
Owl Intuition Controller
Owl Intuition-C – utilized to control my heating – I don’t bother controlling hot water
Owl CM180 power clamp as well as display
Billion Bipac 7800DXL router, different switches, powerline AV adapters
Trendnet IP310TV cameras for security (PoE)
Synology Diskstation DS115j (for CCTV archive footage)
Another Cyberpower UPS for the cameras
Z-wave Devices
Fibaro FMSS001 PIR
Aeotec Multisensor (not currently in use)
Fibaro FGSS101 Smoke Alarm
TKB SM103 Door Sensor (detect when front door is opened)
Vision ZD2102 Door Sensor wired as a doorbell
Fibaro Binary Sensor (later utilize planned)
TKB TZ88E energy measuring power sockets
RFX controlled/detected devices
Oregon scientific Themo/Humidity sensors
Oregon scientific rain Gauge
Oregon scientific Anemometer
Byron PIRs
Home simple remote controlled sockets
Home simple light fittings
Home simple PIR
X10 RF PIR
LightwaveRF Remote Controls
LightwaveRF mood Switches
Energenie LAN Power Strip
Wunderground to improve regional weather condition information
Sonos Play 1 – a relatively new addition as well as fantastic device!
Obi 110 VOIP Adaptor – this allows me to grab call history from my landline from a webpage as well as more…
BlinkStick
Logitech harmony Hub/Remote
Raspberry Pi as well as Camera
Parts of the system have shown some genuine benefits as well as proven the “business case”:
Being off-the-sewage-grid (septic tank) I have a rather costly pumping station as well as although the heavy cast iron pumps can last years, one just recently burnt out.
I saw a sustained 1.2kW boost in home power usage as reported by the Owl CM180 which I traced to be one of the pumps however there was little I might do to prevent its eventual demise – it’s thermal cut out didn’t save it as well as then bang.
So after costs £800 on a new pump I decided to invest £35 in a Z-wave power metering socket (TKB TZ88E) which quickly shows any type of modification in power usage i.e. when the pump is running – if the pump stays active for longer than 1 minute an email alert (I mean to modification to a push notification) is sent as well as I can remotely switch it off as well as investigate the problem (e.g. a stuck float switch) reducing the danger of one more £800 shed fuori! I might likewise script it to power down however I will do that one more day…
Some people on the Domoticz forum warned that high power devices like pumps can overload such sockets however after many months of quite much everyday on/offs I have had no issues at all. I chose the plug-in 13amp choice as I wanted to be able to quickly eliminate it later. I likewise utilize TZ88E’s somewhere else on a lamp as well as the TV/AV kit.
As well as remote power control, temperature sensing, etc. I utilize my setup for the following:
The Trendnet IP cameras take fantastic high quality 3MP snapshots when movement is detected on the driveway (Byron PIR) or when the doorbell is pressed. While these IP cameras have built-in movement detection as well as continuous recording to the NAS it is really useful to get the notifications provided from the PIRs. This is all triggered by a Domoticz lua script which in turn calls a shell script to grab the snapshots.
The doorbell push plays an mp3 as well as sends a push message to my iPhone.
Philips hue is now providing my security lighting while I likewise utilize a LightwaveRF mood controller to switch them on as well as off via Domoticz.
The Domoticz VM plays a dog-bark.mp3 on the USB noise card when movement is detected on the driveway – useful to understand when planned or unplanned visitors arrive!
Related to the above I have a shell script that checks if home power usage is high soon before going to bed i.e. indicating a high power gadget has been left on – right here I play an mp3 data as a warning however once again might quickly modification to a push message.
The UPS’s do a fantastic tChiedi di gestire lievi interruzioni di corrente e di un rapporto in cui la potenza viene persa e ripristinata in un dati di registro mentre l’altro protegge la sinologia.
Ho implementato una semplice pagina di condizione HTML statica per salvare il requisito per accedere a Domoticz quando tutto ciò che desidero fare è controllare le foto recenti del vialetto o controllare un sensore.
Allora, qual è il prossimo?
Posso sostituire l’host ESXI con un nuovo server a bassa potenza che esegue in modo nativo per semplificare le cose
Modifica lo script per spegnere le pompe invece di parlarmene!
Guarda in node.js e noded (grazie al mio amico e associato Brian B. per i consigli qui)
Implementare il sensore binario Fibaro con sensori a fascio / rottura sull’unità poiché PIR può individuare falsamente il movimento
Fai funzionare l’Aeon Labs PIR – All’energia della batteria non è affidabile, quindi ho bisogno di collegarsi a un PSU
Implementa gli script sul mio router per scoprire quando i nostri telefoni sono casa e collegati al WiFi – Rilevamento dell’esistenza!
Integrano Owl Intuition-C-Al momento posso controllare solo tramite l’applicazione o il sito Web OWL
Allo stesso modo ho iniziato a giocare con dispositivi beacon a bassa energia Bluetooth per individuare l’esistenza, ad es. Metti uno in macchina
Usa Sonos Play 1 per le notifiche
Implementa Blinkstick per le notifiche
Forse utilizzare il Raspberry Pi e la fotocamera
In una nota finale, vorrei dichiarare grazie agli utenti del Forum Domoticz e alle diverse altre risorse Web per rendere tutto possibile.
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