Apolonio Blog | The Next Year

More Not Following The Plan

Posted on July 13, 2023 by larry

I did clean and I started working through some of the list I have, but I find myself going back to the smart home stuff. Today I was trying to make sense of the kasa stuff in Home Assistant.

The names were all over the place, they were different in Kasa, different in DNS/DHCP, different in Home Assistant. I think renaming them really broke stuff.

Also it is compounded because only the app can rename some devices. (EP10 devices)

Anyway, I did work on some things, purchased some containers and bags for the cable. Got the label printer ready (need to still test) and I did clean a bit.

Weight: 341.2

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Didn’t Do What I said

Posted on July 12, 2023 by larry

I was supposed to start focusing on cleaning and get some sleep.

Did neither had problems sleeping and kept working on my home automation.

To make things worse I purchased more Zigbee devices.

I should get some sleep early today.

Weight: 340.8

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Refocus Efforts

Posted on July 11, 2023 by larry

In the last few posts I showed I was working on Arduino stuff (home monitoring to be specific). I need to change my efforts and work on cleaning. Waiting on parts anyway.

3D Printer is churning through one more thing now and after that I will not touch for at least a week.

I am committing to getting the garage done by Sunday night. During the rest of the week I will find time to clean up my office.

Yesterday was a good workout, do not want to over do it.

Weight: 342.0

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Raiding Old Units for parts

Posted on July 10, 2023 by larry

Scavaneging parts from old systems to continue with my project. I swear there were a couple of RXB6 around the house. Anyway I ordered more even though I have been told the RXB12 perform better.

Just have to wait till more parts come in.

Finally build something that looks professional, like something purchased. It is a relay with a 12V DC barrel that fits. Works too.

Also built a 433mhz transmitter. I had one before but this one is based on tasmota.

Also actually accomplished my fitbit goals today. Woohoo.

Weight: 341.2

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Inconsistent Sensors

Posted on July 9, 2023 by larry

It is weird, I have the units in the same general area, and they can’t seem to sniff the same sensors.

I change the antennas and did a bunch of different lengths and I am still not getting the same information.

I am getting good results with the black sonoff.

Maybe an different module will help. I am expected the RXB12 to outperform the RXB8.

So now it is a waiting game till the new modules come in.

Weight: 339.6

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RF 443 Assembly Line

Posted on July 8, 2023 by larry

I got my units on an assembly line now

You can see the Sonoff on the left I am trying to match, then a hardware prototyping breadboard

The dev one for testing software, three production ones next to it in various assembly phases.

Still messing with the signal, I think I am going to try changing the antenna type.

Weight: 339.0

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Dev Unit Is Done

Posted on July 7, 2023 by larry

It is built

Maybe a few hardware tweaks here and there but I am OK with this unit.

Now to work on the software.

Weight: 340.0

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I am changing what I am building to nodemcu and a different receiver. Pictured is an RXB6 but with minor modifications I can do an RXB12 which is on order. Also this will go on a breadboard. Electronically this is the best route so far.