Our latest “My Automated Home” story comes from Ian Gardner as well as his Domoticz powered wise home.

My house automation journey started around 12 years back with a single PC running Fedora Linux, motion and a single USB webcam watching over my driveway.

It was all thanks to a buddy as well as work associate (Steve L) who inspired me to provide it all a try.

Over time I played with X10, utilized an original RFXCom receiver with xpl-perl as well as experimented with different HomeEasy devices. Over the years my setup has changed as well as evolved and currently looks like this…

HP N36L Microserver running VMWare ESXi (The heart of the system)

Several multi-purpose virtual machines running Ubuntu 14.04LTS

VM running Domoticz as well as OpenZwave

USB RFXCom (433MHz)

USB connection from Cyberpower UPS

USB noise Card with USB powered speakers for notifications

USB Aeotec Z-wave controller

Philips Hue Controller

5x Philips Hue Lux bulbs

Philips Hue Bloom lamp

Owl Intuition Controller

Owl Intuition-C – utilized to control my heating – I don’t bother controlling hot water

Owl CM180 power clamp as well as display

Billion Bipac 7800DXL router, different switches, powerline AV adapters

Trendnet IP310TV cameras for security (PoE)

Synology Diskstation DS115j (for CCTV archive footage)

Another Cyberpower UPS for the cameras

Z-wave Devices

Fibaro FMSS001 PIR

Aeotec Multisensor (not currently in use)

Fibaro FGSS101 Smoke Alarm

TKB SM103 Door Sensor (detect when front door is opened)

Vision ZD2102 Door Sensor wired as a doorbell

Fibaro Binary Sensor (later utilize planned)

TKB TZ88E energy measuring power sockets

RFX controlled/detected devices

Oregon scientific Themo/Humidity sensors

Oregon scientific rain Gauge

Oregon scientific Anemometer

Byron PIRs

Home simple remote controlled sockets

Home simple light fittings

Home simple PIR

X10 RF PIR

LightwaveRF Remote Controls

LightwaveRF mood Switches

Energenie LAN Power Strip

Wunderground to improve regional weather condition information

Sonos Play 1 – a relatively new addition as well as fantastic device!

Obi 110 VOIP Adaptor – this allows me to grab call history from my landline from a webpage as well as more…

BlinkStick

Logitech harmony Hub/Remote

Raspberry Pi as well as Camera

Parts of the system have shown some genuine benefits as well as proven the “business case”:

Being off-the-sewage-grid (septic tank) I have a rather costly pumping station as well as although the heavy cast iron pumps can last years, one just recently burnt out.

I saw a sustained 1.2kW boost in home power usage as reported by the Owl CM180 which I traced to be one of the pumps however there was little I might do to prevent its eventual demise – it’s thermal cut out didn’t save it as well as then bang.

So after costs £800 on a new pump I decided to invest £35 in a Z-wave power metering socket (TKB TZ88E) which quickly shows any type of modification in power usage i.e. when the pump is running –  if the pump stays active for longer than 1 minute an email alert (I mean to modification to a push notification) is sent as well as I can remotely switch it off as well as investigate the problem (e.g. a stuck float switch) reducing the danger of one more £800 shed uit! I might likewise script it to power down however I will do that one more day…

Some people on the Domoticz forum warned that high power devices like pumps can overload such sockets however after many months of quite much everyday on/offs I have had no issues at all.  I chose the plug-in 13amp choice as I wanted to be able to quickly eliminate it later.  I likewise utilize TZ88E’s somewhere else on a lamp as well as the TV/AV kit.

As well as remote power control, temperature sensing, etc. I utilize my setup for the following:

The Trendnet IP cameras take fantastic high quality 3MP snapshots when movement is detected on the driveway (Byron PIR) or when the doorbell is pressed.  While these IP cameras have built-in movement detection as well as continuous recording to the NAS it is really useful to get the notifications provided from the PIRs.  This is all triggered by a Domoticz lua script which in turn calls a shell script to grab the snapshots.

The doorbell push plays an mp3 as well as sends a push message to my iPhone.

Philips hue is now providing my security lighting while I likewise utilize a LightwaveRF mood controller to switch them on as well as off via Domoticz.

The Domoticz VM plays a dog-bark.mp3 on the USB noise card when movement is detected on the driveway – useful to understand when planned or unplanned visitors arrive!

Related to the above I have a shell script that checks if home power usage is high soon before going to bed i.e. indicating a high power gadget has been left on  – right here I play an mp3 data as a warning however once again might quickly modification to a push message.

The UPS’s do a fantastic tVraag het om kleine stroomuitval te verwerken, evenals één rapporten wanneer de stroom verloren gaat en hersteld is in een loggegevens terwijl de ander de synologie beschermt.

Ik heb een eenvoudige statische HTML -conditiepagina geïmplementeerd om de vereiste op te slaan om in te loggen op Domoticz wanneer ik alleen maar wens om recente opritfoto’s te controleren of een sensor te controleren.

Dus wat nu?

Ik kan de ESXI -host vervangen door een nieuwere low power -server die ubuntu native uitvoert om dingen te vereenvoudigen

Wijzig het script om de pompen af ​​te stimuleren in plaats van me erover te vertellen!

Kijk naar node.js en knikte (dankzij mijn buddy en medewerker Brian B. voor het advies hier)

Implementeer fibaro binaire sensor met bundel- / breeksensoren op drive, omdat PIR vals beweging kan vinden

Laat de Aeon Labs PIR werken – op batterijvermogen is het niet gerenommeerd, dus ik moet linken naar een PSU

Implementeer scripts op mijn router om te ontdekken wanneer onze telefoons huis zijn en verbonden zijn met wifi – bestaand detectie!

Integreer OWL-intuïtie-C-Momenteel kan ik alleen controleren via de uiltoepassing of website

Ik ben ook begonnen te spelen met Bluetooth low Energy Beacon -apparaten om het bestaan ​​te spotten, b.v. Zet er een in de auto

Gebruik Sonos Play 1 voor meldingen

Implementeer Blinkstick voor meldingen

Misschien maak je Raspberry Pi en camera gebruiken

Op een laatste opmerking wil ik graag zeggen dankzij de domoticz -forumgebruikers en verschillende andere webbronnen om dit allemaal mogelijk te maken.

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