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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Insteon is awesome. If you have your
heart set on rolling your own, the Arduino Relay Shield is pretty
clutch -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hacktronics.com/Arduino/Relay-Shield-for-Arduino/flypage.tpl.html">http://www.hacktronics.com/Arduino/Relay-Shield-for-Arduino/flypage.tpl.html</a><br>
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--casey<br>
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On 2/17/13 10:03 AM, John Adams wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">When I see things like this I usually think "You
are working too hard." - people continually seem to want to
reinvent the "relay switch controlled by software" problem.
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<div style="">Go buy an Insteon relay switch, like <a
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href="http://www.insteon.net/31274-ezio-relay-controller.html">http://www.insteon.net/31274-ezio-relay-controller.html</a>
and a USB Insteon controller. It will just work, and you
will not have to worry about your house burning down.
Additionally, the entire system will be wirelessly
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<div style="">You can solve this problem for about $70. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Carlo
Contavalli <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I bet
something similar has already been discussed :) but...<br>
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I want to control a few water pumps (low power, aquarium
kind of<br>
pumps) via software, and read inputs from a sensor or two
(humidity,<br>
temperature).<br>
<br>
I'd like a solution that is cheap, I can bring up as quickly
as<br>
possible with as little work as possible, ideally no to
little<br>
soldering, I can easily program with good libraries (python
/ C /<br>
whatever is fine). Eg, I'd like this to be a one afternoon
project, I<br>
plan to get most of my hacking fun by playing with the
result, rather<br>
than with building the system :)<br>
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I was looking into:<br>
1) raspberry PI + relay board + sensors.<br>
2) Arduino + relay board + sensors - seems like a bit more
work than<br>
the above? even if more flexible?<br>
3) Something like:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.controlanything.com/Relay/Relay/WIFI_PROXR&CpField=relays&CpValue=4"
target="_blank">http://www.controlanything.com/Relay/Relay/WIFI_PROXR&CpField=relays&CpValue=4</a><br>
they seem to have tons of pre-made relatively low effort
solutions.<br>
<br>
I've had some embedded experience in the past, but have not
used any<br>
of the above. Suggestions? hints? experiences?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Carlo<br>
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