After a long hard day of hacking, our persistence has payed off. Yesterday Charles and I got off to  quick start  by getting lots of stuff talking to each other via MQTT   for our DIME project.. ….. but today, we spent most of our time wrestling with various radio protocols (wifi, bluetooth. zigbee trying to get more things connected .. the wind was not at our backs.. we kept getting 80 percent of the way there only to find we had some problem or other getting the two sides (sensor/cloud) to talk…

Mid afternoon we had to put down the soldering iron and take a break,. i even jumped in the Huntington river (brrrr) to shake off the F-up ferry’s evil spell..

 

 

Finally.. after dinner, our luck changed.. we managed to get a whole lot more stuff workign all at once..

• we managed to create an ultra low cost  remote smoke detector measurement.. that even I have to admit is pretty clever. it measures battery health and tells others when the alarm is actuated..
• we also used the same modular sensor on water detectors for flooding.. bonus !
• we created a simple rules engine that sends txt messages (eg.  hey.. the sair quality in here is pretty bad.. or hey.. the smole detector is goign off ! ) via Twillio
• we got a simple XMPP link working to compliment our existing MQTT data IO..

here’s us trying out the smoke alarm.. feebly trying to keep the alarm from waking up Diane.. (sorry love !)

 

here’s our wirelessly monitored smoke alarm (stolen from the roof of our hallway..) .. hey nest.. ours cost $15

 

here’s Gabe trying on Charles Google glass.. pretty geeky !

now the house is a wreck.. but we did soem great stuff.. now to document it all..

 

first soem sleep.

nite all, nite sam

-me