[Noisebridge-discuss] Wireless relays + sensors

[John Adams]

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.

Go buy an Insteon relay switch, like
http://www.insteon.net/31274-ezio-relay-controller.html 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
controlled.

You can solve this problem for about $70.

-j



On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Carlo Contavalli <ccontavalli at gmail.com>wrote:

> I bet something similar has already been discussed :) but...
>
> I want to control a few water pumps (low power, aquarium kind of
> pumps) via software, and read inputs from a sensor or two (humidity,
> temperature).
>
> I'd like a solution that is cheap, I can bring up as quickly as
> possible with as little work as possible, ideally no to little
> soldering, I can easily program with good libraries (python / C /
> whatever is fine). Eg, I'd like this to be a one afternoon project, I
> plan to get most of my hacking fun by playing with the result, rather
> than with building the system :)
>
> I was looking into:
> 1) raspberry PI + relay board + sensors.
> 2) Arduino + relay board + sensors - seems like a bit more work than
> the above? even if more flexible?
> 3) Something like:
>
> http://www.controlanything.com/Relay/Relay/WIFI_PROXR&CpField=relays&CpValue=4
> they seem to have tons of pre-made relatively low effort solutions.
>
> I've had some embedded experience in the past, but have not used any
> of the above. Suggestions? hints? experiences?
>
> Thanks!
> Carlo
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