Wow I can’t believe 5 months has past since ARH #14 was posted. I’ve accomplished a few things and have created some new issues. As for the server not responding, it has been a long and arduous road for

Some time ago I said I was having trouble with my web-server and I was going to dig deep into the code for answers. Well I did. But before I blabber on about that, I would like to brief you in on some

For what you say? For muting you. I was bragging about Steemit over father’s day with my young adult children. They were asking good questions. As the conversation continued I couldn’t answer their questions

Ever have an idea of how you want something to look, feel or work and no matter how many searches you do, you just can’t find it? Of course you have. It wasn’t that long ago I found myself in that very

Have you ever seen such a beauty? My daughter took this picture of Hazel with her iPhone 6. It’s unedited. She also took this one of Westley. I’m realizing after going through my photo libraries, to find

Sorry to my followers expecting another Home Automation post. I got sucked in to my feed and found a contest promoting dogs by @supernovastaffy. Well the only things I enjoy more than my Arduinos are my

As promised here’s the Uno cradled in its new home. I believe I’ve figured out my space issue as well. The second floor control center should fit into a standard 16” on center stud bay, which will allow

As a minor follow up to my last post, I’ve decided to move the two relays that get energized by, the GDO motor running, and GDO light, into the control box. The primary reason for this is I have stumbled

As I was wiring the panel for the left garage door monitoring system I started thinking about, what and if, I would change about my home automation system. The short answer is, when it’s completed, I wouldn’t

Well I’ve been working on tying up some of the loose ends of Phase I. While working on the left garage door control box, it dawned on me that I didn’t cover a couple of items as well as I should have.

I find it ironic that the garage portion of this project is the closing part of this blog, at least for now. The irony is that a left open garage door, is the whole reason I committed to doing this Home

I’m such an dummy! A few posts ago I said my number of posts was off by one. Well that was true but I didn’t realize that comments count as posts. I’m learning. While waiting for it to warm up so I could

So taking a few days off from my home automation blog, has giving me time to take pause and reflect on things. Time to look back and really find out why I’m doing this project in the first place. I have

I realize Christmas lighting season A) has come and gone. or B) will be here before you know it. Either way I wanted to show the lights on the fence I keep talking about. Hey this post is supposed to be

I must say I’ve noticed that the number of posts I reportedly made is 7. Not that its a big deal, but the real number is 6. Ie: 1 less than what is reported. Don’t want fomo. With that out of the way its

Today I would like to talk code. I must start by saying, when it comes to writing clean, efficient code, I’m probably not the best person to be posting, as I put myself just above noob. But my code works.

Hi and welcome back! A short post this time, just to follow through. Near the end of the video about wiring switches I said I would find my drawing on how to turn a double pole double throw ice cube relay

Before going on, I need to make a correction. I said that the output reed relays have 5v coils and were switching 5v, that was incorrect. They are actually switching 12vdc. The next H.A.S. component is

As promised, lets dive in. If you have read from the first post you know I said that the garage door was the reason for my home automation project. I would like to clarify a bit. I bought the house in

As I start this series of posts, I will try to keep it to the point. However this post is more of an extension of my introduction, please be patient. What follows will help everything else make sense.