Our latest “My Automated Home” story comes from Ian Gardner and his Domoticz powered smart home.
My home automation journey started around 12 years ago with a single PC running Fedora Linux, motion and a single USB webcam watching over my driveway.
It was all thanks to a friend and work colleague (Steve L) who inspired me to give it all a try.
Over time I played with X10, used an original RFXCom receiver with xpl-perl and experimented with various HomeEasy devices. Over the years my setup has changed and 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 and OpenZwave
USB RFXCom (433MHz)
USB connection from Cyberpower UPS
USB sound 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 – used to control my heating – I don’t bother controlling hot water
Owl CM180 power clamp and display
Billion Bipac 7800DXL router, various 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 use 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 easy remote controlled sockets
Home easy light fittings
Home easy PIR
X10 RF PIR
LightwaveRF Remote Controls
LightwaveRF mood Switches
Energenie LAN Power Strip
Wunderground to enhance local weather information
Sonos Play 1 – a fairly new addition and great device!
Obi 110 VOIP Adaptor – this allows me to grab call history from my landline from a webpage and more…
BlinkStick
Logitech harmony Hub/Remote
Raspberry Pi and Camera
Parts of the system have shown some real benefits and proven the “business case”:
Being off-the-sewage-grid (septic tank) I have a rather expensive pumping station and although the heavy cast iron pumps can last years, one recently burnt out.
I saw a sustained 1.2kW increase in household power usage as reported by the Owl CM180 which I traced to be one of the pumps but there was little I could do to prevent its eventual demise – it’s thermal cut out didn’t save it and then estallido.
So after spending £800 on a new pump I decided to invest £35 in a Z-wave power metering socket (TKB TZ88E) which instantly shows any change in power usage i.e. when the pump is running – if the pump stays active for longer than 1 minute an email alert (I intend to change to a push notification) is sent and I can remotely switch it off and investigate the issue (e.g. a stuck float switch) reducing the risk of another £800 burn out! I could also script it to power down but I will do that another day…
Some people on the Domoticz forum warned that high power devices like pumps can overload such sockets but after many months of pretty much daily on/offs I have had no issues at all. I chose the plug-in 13amp option as I wanted to be able to easily remove it later. I also use TZ88E’s elsewhere on a lamp and the TV/AV kit.
As well as remote power control, temperature sensing, etc. I use my setup for the following:
The Trendnet IP cameras take great quality 3MP snapshots when motion is detected on the driveway (Byron PIR) or when the doorbell is pressed. While these IP cameras have built-in motion detection and continuous recording to the NAS it is actually 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 and sends a push message to my iPhone.
Philips hue is now providing my security lighting while I also use a LightwaveRF mood controller to switch them on and off via Domoticz.
The Domoticz VM plays a dog-bark.mp3 on the USB sound card when motion is detected on the driveway – useful to know when planned or unplanned visitors arrive!
Related to the above I have a shell script that checks if house power usage is high shortly before going to bed i.e. indicating a high power device has been left on – here I play an mp3 file as a warning but again could easily change to a push mensaje.
The UPS’s do a great job of handling minor power outages and one reports when power is lost and restored into a log file while the other protects the Synology.
I have implemented a simple static HTML status page to save the need to login to Domoticz when all I wish to do is check recent drivewayimágenes o revisar un sensor.
¿Qué es lo siguiente?
Puedo reemplazar el host ESXI con un nuevo servidor de baja potencia que se ejecuta Ubuntu de forma nativa para simplificar las cosas
¡Modifique el script para apagar las bombas en lugar de contarme sobre ellas!
Mire en Node.js y Nisdered (gracias a mi amigo y colega Brian B. por el consejo aquí)
Implemente el sensor binario de Fibaro con sensores de haz / ruptura en la unidad, ya que PIR puede detectar falsamente el movimiento
Haga que el Aeon Labs PIR funcione: en la alimentación de la batería no es confiable, por lo que necesito conectarme a una PSU
Implemente scripts en mi enrutador para encontrar cuándo nuestros teléfonos están en casa y conectados a WiFi – ¡Detección de presencia!
Integrar OWL Intuition-C-Actualmente solo puedo controlar a través de la aplicación OWL o el sitio web
También comencé a jugar con dispositivos Bluetooth de Beacon Beacon para detectar la presencia, p. Pon uno en el auto
Use Sonos Play 1 para notificaciones
Implementar Blinkstick para notificaciones
Quizás haga uso de Raspberry Pi y cámara
En una nota final, me gustaría agradecer a los usuarios del Foro Domoticz y varios otros recursos de Internet para hacer todo esto posible.
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