[Noisebridge-discuss] Wireless relays + sensors

[Casey Callendrello]

Insteon is awesome. If you have your heart set on rolling your own, the
Arduino Relay Shield is pretty clutch -
http://www.hacktronics.com/Arduino/Relay-Shield-for-Arduino/flypage.tpl.html

--casey

On 2/17/13 10:03 AM, John Adams wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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