Tom's Life Bits

All projects are aggregated on this page.

• i2c or SPI Backpack 2 wire LCD or relay hookup
• Overview Adafruit BMP280 Pressure Sensor breakout
• Adafruit DHT22 Humidity-Temp Sensor
• DHT22 Humidity Sensor from Adafruit
• TV B Gone July 2012
• Standard LCD 4x20 March 2013
• Red Matrix LED 16x24 Dec 2015
• Huzzah Esp8266 Adafruits breakout and packaging
• Huzzah Overview & Pin definitions
• Huzzah Esp8266 Bootloader Adafruits Arduino IDE instrutions
• RTC DS3231 Adafruit Learning
• Adafruit Powertail 2 purchased Aug 2014

• MiniWirelessW-433Mhz My moteino clones
• TH02 Temp-Humidity Sensor sold by Anarduino
• Antenna Lengths

• Arduino File structure
• CuteDigi RS485 Shield 20110804
• Adafruit DC Boarduino Arduino with Atmega 328
• Sparkfun Arduino Fio Tiny Arduino with Xbee socket
• Wireless comm with Arduino Fio Programming and communication
• Sparkfun Arduino Pro July 2011 Ethernet shield Photos
  
• Sparkfun Arduino Pro Schematic 20110801 Sparkfun Arduino ethernet shield schematics
  
• Sparkfun FTDI Basic 20110803 Arduino USB bootloader Schematic
• Sparkfun Arduino Pro 20110805 without Ethernet, photo & schematic
  
• Sparkfun Beefcake Relay Board 20120312
• Arduino to AVR Pin Mapping
• Arduino to PHP
• Arduino USB Host Shield 20110822 Sparkfun photos, forum notes
• Arduino USB Host Shield 20110822b Circuits at Home
• Arduino USB Host Shield schematic Sparkfun
• Freedino USB Host Controller Schematic and photo
• LCD 4x20 wiring to Arduino table, text
• Arduino Uno eBay purchased Dec 2015 for $6 each
• YUN notes April 2016 Arduino YUN

A few handy notes and some code are in this section.

• Detecting Screen Resolution short sub

• Current Sensing Magnetic sensor, op amp
• Kill A Watt Circuit Analysis
• Using Optoisolators

• Cloud Sync vs Backup
• Cloud Storage & Scanning Parents Documents
• Mapping Network Drives using Synology

Listing of various computers on downing Place.

• Small Multimedia PC 2013 build
• Traviata Computer Specs and Info
• Traviata II Computer Specs and Info
• Traviata III Computer Specs and Info
• Manon Computer Specs and Info Oct 21, 2013
• Manon III Computer Specs and Info April 15, 2015
• Minnie Computer Fedora Linux server
• Samsung Chromebook 2014
• Samsung Printers Toms office, Libbie's office
• Cleome Dell Laptop Tom's Inspiron 11 3147 2-in-1 laptop

Some documents relating to the Davis Weather Station.

• Davis Protocol Hacking Part 1
• Davis Protocol Hacking Part 2
• DIY Davis Console
• DIY Davis Console photo
• Wunderground upload Protocol
• Sample Wunderground Upload URL
• Davis RF to WiFi Gateway Dec 1, 2019
• CC1101 Davis Weather Receiver Project found on GitHub

• Matrix LED 64x16 from embedded adventures April 2014
• Matrix LED Raspberry Pi Example is for LDP-8008
• PLT1001 Driver Board for EA displays such as LDP-6416

• Installing HVHZ doors

• Camera Info

Docs of the various sensors.

• Porch thermostat wiring Nov 2011 (includes Jan 2012 Greenhouse update, cable numbers)
• TG XB Enviro Dec 2011 Workshop Arduino with Xbee, terminal strips

• Tire Pressure

Computers, TV, routers, furnaces, misc electronics.

• Grainger Catalog page of blower sizes Apr 2010
• Ceiling Fan hacks info and mods for a ceiling fan
• Dornback furnace
• Downing Place IP Addresses also Ethernet Switches locations & port usage
• downing_place_paint_formulas
• Floor Plans and Dimensions windows, rooms, etc
• Generac generator notes
• Obi200 Configuration screen grab
• ObiHai200 Ad from NewEgg email flyer
• Roof Pitches degrees to slope chart Downing Place is 7/12 or 30 degrees
• Router Port Forwarding assignments
• Samsung TV Plasma 2012
• TG Light Operation
• TG Tower lighting power Measured
• Upstairs furnace

• Multiple password edits Drupal module for AVSA

• Feb 2014 Lithium Pack DIY Battery pack using Greenworks battery cells
• Feb 2014 BMS using AVR

• Fred 3 - 80452 based monitor, 1988
• Bathroom Project, 2007
• Upstairs HVAC Project, April 2010
• Degas June 2008, a 3 temperature OW device with a Simple LAN web server for monitoring
• Davinci, ENC28J60 ethernet interface on Atmega128 AVR webserver
• Hatty July 2011 photos and installation
• Rondine June 2008, a 3 temperature Zigbee client for attic HVAC monitoring
• Loge Sept 2008 Outside temperature heat load balancer
• Toms Project Docs - cross reference
• Project Synopsis, identifying the various started projects in the stable
• Project ToDo List Musings
• Venus Project, some direction and requirements
• Venus Protocol How to communicate with 485 net and TNC
• Burbank Project Description and requirements
• Bonnard Project Zigbee to ethernet bridge which complements the Burbank controller.
• TGnet Protocol Description and format of the TOm G Zigbee protocol
• Kahlo Controller card with keypad and display, one wire interface and microwave control interface.
• BB Packet Options Description of various options, pro and cons and prices for the various ways to hook up and monitor a remote system.
• Meister2 Downing Place Master controller July 2011
• Mars Project conceived Dec 2009
• Mars2 System Jan 2011
• Computer Projects CPU's and Memory of my computers
• Pasquale System June 2011
• TG Tower timer Sept 2011
• TG Relay 4 March 2012 Relay board driven by Boarduino used in TG Flower Timer I
• TG MQTT Relay 4 May 2019
• TG Mozart July 2012 IR A/C controller
• TG Flower Timer I March 2012 uses Boarduino and Relay 4 PCB (Wiring colors on Horticulture page)
• TG Flower Timer II Feb 2013 8 relays, bluetooth, Boarduino, RTC & LCD
• Rembrandt AVR defunct project
• Open Sprinkler Docs Oct 2013 TG Flower Timer II

• Esp8266 Web config leveraged in NCID
  
• Huzzah Esp8266 Adafruits breakout and packaging (copy from Adafruit section above)
• Huzzah GPIO definitions
• Fake Wemo with ESP8266 Controlled by Alexa
• Fake Wemo support files
• Huzzah web scrape example
  • Huzzah code for webscrape example

• NodeMCU Pin Mappings (code)

• iBird Opening Screen capture example screen for FC for A
• FC4A User Mockup Paintshop screen

• FTDI cable pictorial showing hookup to device for monitoring including my pinout notes

• Four channel relay board schematic
• Eight channel board (relay) photos & schematic
• Eight channel manual relay board
• Eight channel parts relay board
• Hobby Boards Temp board July 2011
• Hobby Boards 6 channel hub Aug 2011

• Set up Audio Internet Streaming

• Extending IR Range
• Smart Remote Control Uses Yun, from Make's Tony DiCola
• smartthings_ir_bridge.htm
• smartthings to IR bridge code
• TSOP382 IR Receiver (3 pin)
• IR Control of Samsung TV
• IR code specs & Tools
• IR Kit Arduino Leonardo w/WiFi & IR Transmitter/receiver

• I2C Notes with Huzzah

• Sparkfun AS3935 to ESP8266 Wiring
• Typical MQTT JSON packet with Kaminari software
• Shred Zone AS3935 blog
• https://github.com/shred/kaminari Github page for Kaminari AS3935 sketch and driver

• Moisture Probe Aug 2011 gypsum mold via Hobby Boards
• Moisture Prototype Sept 2011 from web

• 1x30A Switch Mote March 2016
• Garage Mote stock from Low Power labs
• Garage Mote Wiring Hall effect sensors to PCB
• Mote R4 Schematic Moteino Feb 2016
• Mote R4 Photo Moteino March 2016
• Mighty Boost UPS schematic, picture Feb 2016
• Mighty Boost (Feb 2016) Arduino code
• Moteino-Pi PCB image of board from OSHPark
• Soft Serial for Mote to Gateway using Huzzah-Pi
• Weather Node PCB for Moteino used in my Davis wireless intercept
• Tom's Proposed Gateway

• DIY Moteino Motorized Blinds Article, pictures, github files

• Display Huzzah IO

• OPSi Pin Usage
• Open Sprinkler Docs Oct 2013 TG Flower Timer II
• SIP Relay Version April 2016
• Sprinkler Controller Hackaday Version 595 hooked to ESP8266

• HTX 202 Operation Radio Shack 2 meter transceiver
• Packet frequencies Some misc notes
• Yaesu TT4 Radio cable
• Some APRS info found on web
• Raw telemetry frames from http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=K4RCC
• APRS Telemetry info Dec 2009 found on web
• Setting Up TT4 Downing place & BB stations
• Toms raw telemetry frames from aprs.fi Downing place station
• Toms wiring TT4-1 to Yaesu cable for radio

• 360 degree product image viewer
• DIY Street View Camera
• Reading Title Tags Using EXIFtool

• Raspberry Squeezeplug player Jan 2013
• Pi Lens info April 2017
• Using the Serial Port March 2013
• RasPi Serial Web Communications March 2013
• RasPi plus Arduino Measuring Temp and Humidity PHP serial from Pi to Arduino
• Files and Directories in Linux Pi specific Linux directory tree
• Raspberry Pi Pinout pictorial layout of gpio, spi, rx/tx, etc
• Temp & Humidity displayed as charts
• 3 Pi Models and their Pinouts
• Dyndns client howto for Pi
• Uninstall Pi Package
• Run Perl on Pi
• Tom's Notes and instructions for Pi Samba shares

• DS1307 RTC Adafruit schematic
• DS1307 Adafruit to Arduino wiring diagram
• DS1307 How to Access Ram Tom g

• Metric screw dimensions

• Wallbox to Ipod Lots of photos of different wallbox hookups
• SONOS API for Seeburg

• Seeburg eBay WallBox Purchased April 2014
• Seeburg 3WA eBay Listing Photos Purchased April 2014
• 24VAC opto interface
• Decoding Seeburg
• HEC Geek ESP8266 embedded page images
• SONOS API for Seeburg

• Serial and Model
• eBay listing May 2015
• Wallbox conversion blog 3W100 to Sonos system
• 3W1 Counting Pulses description, schematic

• Masterbuilt Replacement Controller

• Sonoff FTDI wiring (photo)

• Micro USB Breakout board
• Datasheet for above micro USB breakout

• Homemade Telecine Sequence of pages and pictures
• The 8mm film scanner
• Why you should digitize with a camera instead of scanner
• How to scan with a camera instead of scanner
• Calculating lens focal length
• IEEE Spectrum DIY telecine
• Photos for IEEE DIY telecine
• Photos for IEEE DIY telecine multi exposure
• MagPi April 2017 telecine project

• RTH9585 WiFi Thermostat ebay Dec 2017
• Porch thermostat wiring Nov 2011 (includes Jan 2012 Greenhouse update, cable numbers)
• Honeywell Thermostat wire color code
• Porch Honeywell WiFi Model 9585 Mac: 00D02DDE123C CRC: 3850
  
• Thermostat Wire Meaning also typical color codes
• KB Mac addresses Honeywell

• Care and Feeding of a Wallbox (html file)

• Davis Wx to Moteino RF Receiving Davis packets with RFM69
• Add BMP RTC and DHT chips to Moteino to emulate Davis Console for DIY Console
• Hack - tap into Davis Console
• Measurement Specialties 5534CM barometer in Davis Console
• Hack Davis firmware to bypass Davis greed (Not needed if using RFM69 Moteino)
• GitHub archive of the RFM69 Davis rx on Moteino (Archived here in case github version is removed.)
• Photo of DIY Console Breadboard
• Web server, data logger, wx sensors using bmp280 and RTC3231 with ESP8266

• Signal Strength dBm Table

• Get back Windows desktop

• 5 volt to 3 volt conversion for Xbee photos, schematic
• Adafruit Xbee Adapter schematic, pinout and photos
• Linx Cute Digi Xbee Socket schematic
• Xbee Wireless Arduino programming using Adafruit Xbee socket
• Xbee Wireless addressing some notes, assignments @Downing wireless programming
• Xbee Wireless commands some notes, assignments @Downing environmental system

• Telephone Jack Wiring
• Wiring Standards RJ45 colors, pins, info
• RJ45 ethernet wiring
• RJ45 POE (Power over ethernet)
• Hobby Boards One Wire