I’ve worked on my little holiday project for a while now and it’s making great progress. Since logging is working for almost two weeks now I got some data that should be visualized. One main goal of the project is to have a great UI to browse the sensor data. So almost two weeks into […]
My holiday project is progressing: Today it was hardware delivery day! So this is the hardware which is ready to be used: 1x EzControl XS1 controller 2x Temperature and Humidity sensor 8x Remote Power Switch The EzControl XS1 is easy to use as far as I had the time to give it a try. After […]
I am a long time user of Google Latitude – and since I added a Google Latitude Module to h.a.c.s. almost the whole family started using this service. It’s all about tracking your location. Google says: “Latitude has been retired Google Latitude was retired on August 9th, 2013. Products retired include Google Latitude in Google […]
I’ve added Alarming to hacs a while ago and I’ve now extended the built-in SMS gateway providers with the german telekom services called “Global SMS API”. This API is offered through the Telekom own portal called developer garden and is as easy to use as it can possibly be. You only need to set-up the […]
Usually the actors that allow you to switch power on/off and who measure power usage use the 434Mhz or 868Mhz wireless bands to communicate with their base station. Now the german manufacturer AVM came up with a solution that allows you to switch on/off (with an actual button on the device itself and wireless!) and […]
I am using some Raspberry Pis to monitor the areas around the house. Mainly because it’s awesome to see how many animals are roaming around in your garden throughout the day. On the Pi I am using the current Debian image and motion to interface with an USB webcam. Now I wanted to include sensory […]
It’s been some weeks since I wrote a status update on the ELV MAX! cube protocol reverse engineering and integration into my own home automation project called h.a.c.s.. So first of all I want to give a short overview over what has been achieved so far: I wrote a C# library, highly influenced by a […]
I’ve just pushed a commit to the repository which finalizes my current effort in getting data out of the ELV MAX! Cube. With this sourcecode you should be able to get the following information out of your ELV MAX! Cube: a list of all configured rooms a list of all devices in those rooms Thermostat […]
For several years now I am building my own home automation tools by putting together existing hardware and self-written software. As the central software core of my home automation system I use h.a.c.s. – “home automation control server” which I put up as open source software on GitHub. Throughout the years I was able to […]
This EzControl XS1 device is a complex thing. And currently I am playing with more than 10 sensors and more than 10 actuators. Since poking around with such a device will most certainly lead to a condition where that configuration might get lost (like a power down for more than 30 minutes). Therefore I was […]
Hurray! One of those EzControl XS1 plus some sensors and actors is on the way to me. So I can finally start the little holiday project which will be called “HACS” (Home Automation Control Server). The source code and documentation repository is up on GitHub as of now – you can access it here: https://github.com/bietiekay/hacs […]