| ??? 08/07/12 18:19 Read: times |
#188009 - Build it Responding to: ???'s previous message |
It can be a quite fun project to build one.
If you buy a system, they are normally quite expensive and you still have to either pay money or spend lots of own time to try to set it up so it does what it should. With a home-made solution, it's also easy to have a log function so a PC could retrieve historic information for all sensors and output states. A home-made solution also allows you to feed faked sensor data to test the system - a live system normally requires you to tweek the parameters and then wait a week and see what happened. I would probably skip the LCD and settle for a couple of LED - and instead have a USB-to-serial cable connected, allowing a PC to show detailed information why the LED:s just show simple things like "operating", "fan on", "pump on". |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Is there a such a product ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Build it | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Valid points ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Typical Controls | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| One glaring weakness of most thermostats | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Development board | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Dev boards are my stock-in-trade | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not Quite.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Worth Investigating | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
thanks for the link | 01/01/70 00:00 |