On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Levi Pearson <levipear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You might want to look at some of the new "Internet of Things" chips > that companies like TI and Broadcom are promoting. They both make > fairly cheap development boards that have microcontrollers and onboard > wireless (WiFi, BT, or both) and are in the $20-$90 range. For a WiFi > thermostat, the TI CC3200-LAUNCHXL looks like a great little board at > around $30, and its chip was pretty much designed exactly for the use > case you mention. The Broadcom WiFi WICED development board of similar > features is about $90 (they're a bit less invested in the hobbyist > community than TI is) but I've actually used it for a project at work > and I know it's got a solid WiFi chipset in it. The software framework > and associated build tool is pretty nice; you can use an Eclipse or > Makefile-oriented build process, it will abstract over several free > and commercial RTOS offerings, and comes with libraries and examples > for building web-controlled applications. Everything but the firmware > blob for the WiFi baseband module is distributed as source, and the > documentation is okay, if not exactly great.
That TI board looks really cool. If I had known about those before I bought my EverSpring temperature sensors, I might have bought those instead. But I'm not designing a product, I just want sensors that are plug-and-play to use in my house. If I could find some decent z-wave apps that actually work on Linux, I would be done. Now that I've tried homegenie, DomotiGa, and Ago Control, I wish all my sensors were WiFi. Ah well. I think I might just try modifying the python-openzwave shell to submit passive checks to nagios. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
