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Vesta Zero
Do you want to test how our home automation proposal works? Now you can download the code and experiment in your own home with confidence, without spending money and for as long as you want.
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Analogic I/O
After a few days of refactoring and optimizing code, I’ve been able to get by with two of the most needed devices in any controller. They are the analog input and output. They are based on the primitive capabilities of Arduino to read any electrical potential between 0 and 5 volts with 12 bits of…
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Local and Remote modes
A tricky issue is the one related to the reliability of the network in a real-time system. Communication failures cannot be foreseen and cannot be avoided. It is necessary to learn to live with potential errors in a comfortable and safe way. That is why the Lares and Vesta structures contemplate the local mode and…
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Lares Events
It may seem stupid, but the progress of these days has been (by far) the biggest since the early stages of the project. First of all, I have been refactoring the code to place certain parts that already existed in better structured blocks. These logical modifications have led to two independent compilers: Vesta’s, which also…
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A phone call
Trying to speed things up a little, we wrote to the architect asking whether it would be possible to get a list of materials for the house (I sometimes confuse buildings with cooking recipes and think all you need is a list of ingredients). He replied that this list of ingredients is usually the very…
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Linking to C#
And finally came the part that makes sense of everything. A central computer that receives events from all installed vesta devices, sends data and reads information at the user’s request. The Vesta philosophy considers that the data must reside in each module and the computer link allows them to be read and written transparently. To…
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Meteo Device
I couldn’t wait for tomorrow. It’s been a bit more tedious than I expected, but now it works! The weather module obtains the basic data from a combined DHT sensor and processes it by storing the maximum and minimum values for temperature and humidity. Beyond how well it works (and it works perfectly), what I…
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Digital Outputs
Digital outputs are working! The digital output consists of a device whose logic state corresponds to the activation or deactivation of a physical output of the controller. Put like that, it seems simple, doesn’t it? As always, the work behind the scenes is much more complex: Inverted outputs The physical state of the controller output…
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Targets for Vesta
There are the targets to install vesta controllers on this home. After this deploy all basic devices and switches will be controlled by computer. As this is not the first domotic aproximation, there are several devices working temporarly: Target 0: Storage Room It’s on the basement. From here we control all the lights, our electric…
