I made some brainstorming in the morning....what about moving the web service part of my smart home to the cloud?   The arduino has a webserver, but it is very-very limited. Can handle only 4 network sockets, and the has no real multitasking capability (I overcomed these limitations, but Arduino…

The netscanner interface of the smart home is generic but important part. It would not be useful alone, but its support for the the other modules is very valuable (guess how do I know that all my IP Cams are online?). What it is? To answer it very briefly: a service, which continuously pings (so…

The idea of the whole smart home was popped in my head thankfully to my wife. Well, not directly, but on an interesting way :). I realized several times that the recuperator was switched off (which control was designed and produced by myself too) by my wife. I asked her the simplest question: why?…

Dear All,   about one year ago, I started to automate our home. Well, this was quite a challenge. When we moved to our current house, a lot of good things were already here - like a solar collector, or a good thermosystem - but they were not interacting with each other. And that would give a real…