Bus Pirate V3 (from Sparkfun)

One of the common open source development tools is called the Bus Pirate.  It is a low cost ($35) serial terminal based program that can issue commands to many (and mostly serial) busses including UART, SPI, 1-2-3 wire and I2C.  Bus Pirate was developed by Ian Lesnet of Dangerous Prototypes. I am currently working on a […]

Axeda and ARM Mbed – Part 2

In the previous post I described the “thing” side of an Axeda IOT implementation.  That “thing” was a simple potentiometer, read by an ADC in an NXP1124 ARM MBED development kit.  The value was then encoded into a JSON message and posted to the Axeda cloud over an ethernet/IP connection. In this post I will […]

Home Automation with Zwave and the HomeTroller Zee (Part 6)

For my next installation I decided to try automating the garage door opener. To do this I purchased: ZFM-80US Fixture Switch Module Ecolink Garage Door Tilt Sensor On at least one site it was stated that you should install a camera to monitor the garage door – specifically that you should look before you close […]

Home Automation with Zwave and the HomeTroller Zee (Part 5)

If you want to control your system from an iPhone you will need to enable the HSTouch Server on your Hometrolller (it is on by default).  You can do this from Plug-Ins->Manager.  If HSTouch Server is disabled then you should renable it. The first step in this process is to create an an account on […]

Home Automation with Zwave and the HomeTroller Zee (Part 4)

In the previous posts I installed the HomeTroller and the Zwave switch.  In order to do anything you now need to read the network information out of the Zstick into the HomeTroller.  In order to accomplish this first: Select “Plug-ins->Zwave->Controller Management” Then click the yellow arrow to open the interface menu. Then select “Import Node […]