From: Joel D. <jr...@io...> - 2010-12-28 00:05:00
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Hi Dustin, Sounds like a great project and alot of fun. Let us know if you "get home automation figured out", as I think some of us have been playing with it for years and are still working on that! My only suggestion for the hvac stuff is to go with a commercial thermostat like an Omnistat. I have an older HAI RC80, and on those rare occasions that my mh box isn't working, I still have a heating/ air conditioning system that works. I consider a thermostat part of the life support system for my house, and like a dedicated controller to keep it running. I still have full control over it as needed via mh, but it works without mh, too. I can't help you with making use of your environmental data, but there are a few folks around here (Marc Merlin comes to mind), who do alot of data logging and likely will have some suggestions. Joel -- Joel Davidson Austin, TX On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, it would appear that Dustin Robinson wrote: > I am planning to build a house in a couple years and have decided to > experiment with home automation so I have it figured out prior to the > build. My goal is to be able to do it right the first time in the new > house. > > I currently have MH trunk up and running on a Ubuntu 10.4 headless > server. I have several Insteon and X10 devices playing nice and doing > what I tell them to do. I have a small 1wire network with a few > temperature sensors and a humidity sensor working with digitemp and > OWFS. I have another batch of temp sensors and an IO board on the > way. > > What its the best way to go about HVAC control? Should I be > controlling the furnace directly with the IO board and a simple > thermostat as a backup or should I be looking at the Omnistat2? What > are the differences in what i can accomplish with each? > > I am feeling a bit lost at the moment and need a little direction. I > have been logging the temperature readings and playing with rrdtool to > create nice graphs outside of MH but I don't know the right way to get > the data into MH and what I can do with it once it is in there. There > are so many options (oxc,xpl,owfs_item,xpl-owfs) and I don't > understand any of them and can't figure out which one I should be > focusing on. > > I hope you all can point me in some direction. Thanks in advance! > -Dustin |