jameson_uk
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TL;DR Has anyone got any experience of LightWaveRF or Energenie kit?
Currently I am using the two sockets next to the tank. One has a four gang for heater, air pump, circulation pump and heater and the other socket is for the lights. I have a B&Q timer on the lights and currently have a TP Link smart plug on the four gang meaning I can turn everything off at water change time without having to get down the side of the tank. The shrimp tank has a four gang for everything but again the B&Q timer for the lights sticks out a fair way and stops me hiding it nicely behind the tank (much to the annoyance of the misses...)
This is all OK and works but it means I loose both sockets to the tank and the timer / smart plug stick out loads making it difficult to get at.
I received the lovely marketing email from Screwfix yesterday which got me thinking about whether I could automate things a little without going down the whole PLC route (although that does seem very tempting...)
The original thing that caught my eye was an Energenie double socket that has wifi control built in. You can get three sockets and a wifi controller for £99 and my initial thought was that I could wire three of these up to one socket and create a home made extension lead and then have control over everything and timers on the lights etc. Issue being it looks like the sockets don't support timers (still awaiting confirmation of this from Energenie). They also do have a smart four gang which looks to have individual control over the sockets and support timers (again I am awaiting confirmation) and is only £20; well I say £20 but you actually need a controller unit which is £50 on it's own.
This then lead me onto the LightWaveRF kit which is more expensive (a double socket is £40 and the controller £90) but this seems to be far more robust and the sockets support timers. The issue here is that the documentation states that each receiver should be at least 20cm away from any other (not ideal what I wanted three of them next to each other).
I started looking at relay units (both do a 3KW three connection unit) but not sure I want to strip all the plugs and hard wire everything in.
The one actual use (which is what I would try and sell to the misses) is the lighting out the front. Currently all the lights at the front of the house have all the wiring hidden but she wants the lights to come on via a PIR. I bought a standalone PIR some time ago but she was not having the wires!! I need to figure out the details but it looks like both would allow me to trigger the lights from a wireless PIR which would be nice.
Anyone got any experience with the Engergenie or LightWaveRF kit (or similar) ???
Currently I am using the two sockets next to the tank. One has a four gang for heater, air pump, circulation pump and heater and the other socket is for the lights. I have a B&Q timer on the lights and currently have a TP Link smart plug on the four gang meaning I can turn everything off at water change time without having to get down the side of the tank. The shrimp tank has a four gang for everything but again the B&Q timer for the lights sticks out a fair way and stops me hiding it nicely behind the tank (much to the annoyance of the misses...)
This is all OK and works but it means I loose both sockets to the tank and the timer / smart plug stick out loads making it difficult to get at.
I received the lovely marketing email from Screwfix yesterday which got me thinking about whether I could automate things a little without going down the whole PLC route (although that does seem very tempting...)
The original thing that caught my eye was an Energenie double socket that has wifi control built in. You can get three sockets and a wifi controller for £99 and my initial thought was that I could wire three of these up to one socket and create a home made extension lead and then have control over everything and timers on the lights etc. Issue being it looks like the sockets don't support timers (still awaiting confirmation of this from Energenie). They also do have a smart four gang which looks to have individual control over the sockets and support timers (again I am awaiting confirmation) and is only £20; well I say £20 but you actually need a controller unit which is £50 on it's own.
This then lead me onto the LightWaveRF kit which is more expensive (a double socket is £40 and the controller £90) but this seems to be far more robust and the sockets support timers. The issue here is that the documentation states that each receiver should be at least 20cm away from any other (not ideal what I wanted three of them next to each other).
I started looking at relay units (both do a 3KW three connection unit) but not sure I want to strip all the plugs and hard wire everything in.
The one actual use (which is what I would try and sell to the misses) is the lighting out the front. Currently all the lights at the front of the house have all the wiring hidden but she wants the lights to come on via a PIR. I bought a standalone PIR some time ago but she was not having the wires!! I need to figure out the details but it looks like both would allow me to trigger the lights from a wireless PIR which would be nice.
Anyone got any experience with the Engergenie or LightWaveRF kit (or similar) ???
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... He tested his system by connecting it to normal time switch set to random mode, but after a couple of days and many power failure testing cycles the system didn't boot. Reformatting the SD card and system booted fine. I think he was using the SD card to log data and store system settings so looked like corruption was occurring during a write. In designing embedded systems this is a complete no-no, fail before even considering starting a design of this type of thing, using the program storage area (ie SD card) to store data. We normally store code in one memory device and data in something like a serially connected EEPROM, thus have no chance of corrupting your program code.
rather than be stored in the device.
