I got a Buffalo ??? It comes with DD-WRT with instructions to install Open-WRT. Works great. I can get a signal from inside my condo through several walls to my car in the parking lot.
This is the one I got (out of stock): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162047 These are new eggs buffalo listings: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010076%2050068505%2050001646&IsNodeId=1 On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Barry Roberts <b...@robertsr.us> wrote: > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
