Throughout this blog I will be building, using and investigating technology to build a home intelligent heating (and AC) system. My goal is to save money, generate some of my own electricity and generally having fun doing it.
This blog is also dedicated to:
- Home-brew electronics for your home
- Open source technologies such as, but not limited to: Arduino, Raspberry PI, HTSQL, Wiring
- Home-brew Thermostats
- Green home -generated electricity
- Home automation
- Embedded systems
- Showing you don’t have spend money with the big companies to get the same and better results.
Internet Of Things @ Home 
Looks good. One question: planning to do A/C, too? (I live in the South, which tends to run a tad hotter than Connecticut. 🙂 )
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Hey there,
Thanks for the comment. Yes I plan to hook in the A/C as well. Currently we have a Honeywell programmable controller that runs the A/C, however building in an interface for the heating system would be great.
For example I’d like my system to automatically kick in the fan in the cooling system and use that to pull the warm air from the pellet stove around the house as well.
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Me again. I mentioned your site to a co-worker and he immediately started talking about X10 hardware. I don’t know much, but how do you think that approach compares to yours?
http://www.thisautomatedhouse.com/Thermostat1.html
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I should probably write a whole post on X10 and the pro’s and con’s.
Overall I just don’t think it offers anywhere near the flexibility and scalability of using standard web technologies.
Wikipedia has a list of some of the criticisms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)#Limitations
I’ll add to my “to do” list a post on X10 :).
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Sorry, This link should work better:) :
http://www.spotsko.com/index_iot.html
Greetings
Stefan
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