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Un filone nuovo e, per una volta diverso dalla solita fantascienza .... ambientazione horror-fantascientifica.
Personaggi molto ben caratterizzati, trama a dir poco originale.
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Toshiba Air Conditioner IR signal Reverse Engineering

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Introduction I am in the process of installing some Toshiba air conditioners in my house, and am planning to control them remotely using OpenHab (http://www.openhab.org/). The first step to be able to control the air conditioner is to be able to emulate IR signals as they are sent by the AC remote.
In order to do that I have modified an open source IR library (https://github.com/r45635/HVAC-IR-Control) to add support for the Toshiba AC units.
Air Conditioning remotes work in a slightly different way than standard remotes as they usually transmit a packet containing all information related to the AC as opposed to, say, TV remotes where every keypress transmits only a single information like a button press. This is a typical packet sent from a Toshiba Remote (in Hexadecimal): #KeyHex# Bits1fan1F20D03FC0100400041F20D03FC0100400041144 it is a 72 bit packet that is transmitted twice (I imagine to rule out transmission errors), this is the binary representation:
11110010 00001101 00000011 11…
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Arduino pulse counting with multiple Energy Meters and logging to Emoncms

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Disclaimer:Part of the circuit shown runs (by necessity) 220V AC current. If you are not sure what that means and how to avoid getting injured because of it, please keep reading but don't try replicating the project. I am in no way responsible if you manage to get electrocuted but I would be sorry to know that you did it because you tried this at home and you didn't read the disclaimer .....

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I have been working on a prototype for an arduino based project aimed at measuring energy consumption using multiple energy meters that can be interfaced to an arduino input pin like this one from finder :

the requirements for this project:

monitor power consumption using multiple counters store the collected data through a net connection to an Open Energy Monitor instance

Such a setup would allow me to monitor multiple power consumption (or production) counters, like house energy consumption and photovoltaic production, or energy consumption in multiple zones of an house.
Hardwa…
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ESP8266 - Air Conditioner Command and Control Unit

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This is part 2 of a series of posts where I'll try to show how I am trying to set up a home control and monitoring system using open source tools and network enabled sensors.
In Part 1 I illustrated how I decoded my Toshiba Air Conditioner AC signal, in this part I'll build on that to show how I built and ESP8266 based unit that is able to control five separate AC units in (hopefully in the near future) different rooms by receiving commands from a central server. The ESP8266 unit has also five DS18B20 temperature sensors that will be used to monitor real temperatures in the different rooms


Parts List:
one ESP8266 based dev board, powered from USB, it has seven output pins available to control various sensors/modules, wifi capabilities and the NodeMcu firmware that allows normal arduino sketches to run on it



5 SendIR module: an arduino/esp8266 controllable module that has two high power/high range IR emitters, used to control AC units in different rooms Each module needs one pin…
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