{"id":329,"date":"2020-03-30T19:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:07:34","slug":"arduino-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/index.php\/home-info\/arduino-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the home page of the Arduino Projects web site.&nbsp; I am a hobbyist who has been using Arduinos as sensors and controllers in my home.&nbsp; In an effort to help others similarly interested I decided to start up a web site that would provide detailed wiring and coding examples.&nbsp; More than just Arduinos, I&#8217;ve been using a commercial home automation program (Home Control Assistant, or HCA) to tie all these Arduinos together &#8211; gathering,&nbsp; recording and reporting the conditions in my home.&nbsp; While just the Arduino projects might be of use in and of themselves, if you are willing to use HCA I think the information on this site will be extremely valuable to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of sensors that can be attached to an Arduino is quite large and I&#8217;ve programmed the Arduinos to transfer that information into HCA.&nbsp; I can sense temperatures and humidity.&nbsp; I can sense when a device (like a sump pump or a pump in a well) is running.&nbsp; I can detect high or low water, wet or dry soil, levels of hydrocarbons in the basement, motion, vibration, proximity, fire alarms, doors opened and closed, damn near anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to sensing the environment I can use HCA and the Arduinos to control stuff &#8211; like motors, furnaces, lights, fire alarms, burglar alarms, anything electrical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll get into the gory details later but as an overview the following components serve as the basis for my system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arduino, both Unos,  Leonardos and now Wemos&#8217;s.&nbsp; The Unos and Leonardos are equipped with an ethernet shield, of the W5100 variety, while the Wemos&#8217;s have a built-in WiFi.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home Control Assistant, running on a dedicated Windows 10 pc.\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently running the &#8220;Plus&#8221; version 12 program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strawberry Perl software, the free community version<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming you have some electrical and computer skills.&nbsp; Some of the projects I&#8217;ll describe have dangers associated with them, mainly electrical shock and fires.&nbsp; These risks are pretty low but they do exist, and every year some number of people die due to these causes.&nbsp; So be careful, especially when working with house voltages.&nbsp; I am not an electrical engineer and none of these designs have a UL approval, so anything you do is at your own risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been messing around with a Venstar T5800 programmable thermostat and have a series of postings on how I&#8217;ve managed to use HCA and Perl to control that thermostat and extract the current and historical data from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, for those of us who enjoy building things these projects are useful, fun and educational.&nbsp; I&#8217;m cheap and these projects can be put together pretty reasonably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EXTERNAL LINKS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arduino<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcatech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Home Control Assistant<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/activeperl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Active Perl<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the home page of the Arduino Projects web site.&nbsp; 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