Technical blog to share ideas about Home Automation and other things.
Are now years I'm using a program called Ha-Bridge that basically simulate a Philips Hue hub.
The peculiarity of this program is that can be recognized by Alexa and it can control my X10 lights via Heyu. I did set up this system in the 2016, as described in the article of this blog Playing with Alexa and Echo
At the time of the top usage of X10 there was lot of technical info on the net, today ... not so easy to find them.
I have to modify an old AM486 disabling the current sensing and I didn't find much around, so digging on my old notes here and some searches, I did come up with some info that I hope can be useful to others.
This document DOES NOT describes an application nor it contains specifications about an application.
It only describes the building/preparation/set up of the local development for Azure environment on Linux
Roomba is a very good brand of home robotics, I own one Roomba 6 and one old Roomba 5th generation (560).
In these years of use of course I had to repair it sometime.
The battery of course usually last about 1 to 2 years, I had a wheel unit broken, had to clean the sensors, a couple of lateral brush motor broken and now, a main brush defective.
The feather wing Enviro+ has different sensors in it.
One is the Gas sensor MiCS-6814.
The article covers some information about how to interpret the measurements made with this sensor.
OK, this is my set up for a calendar display using a Raspberry Pi.
Is quite a while that I wanted to have somewhere a calendar display and was considering different solutions, then one weekend I decided to do something about.
The goal is to have somewhere (kitchen maybe) a monitor showing the Google calendars of the family.
Here some notes.
I'm assuming who is reading this article knows how to set up a Linux system, I'll not describe in details many operations.
Let start to see how to work on this board.
The Adafruit Feather M0 Adalogger is a Feather family board from Adafruit that can be used to create data-logger.
Circuit-Python can be used with this board, however after loading the basic support there is not much other space for other libraries and the code.
