As I mentioned yesterday I've been planning to upgrade the Raspberry Pi running my home automation from a Model B to a Pi 3. That should have ample processing power to handle all I need. As you can see below it's now in place. It's using a Pi Cobbler to attach to a breadboard where all the PIRs and door switches are wired up. The USB cable is to an X10 controller via an adaptor as it's got an old serial connection. That turns my lights on and off.
Those boards above it are the old Comfort system that I used to use. This is now redundant and I may rip those out soon. I doubt they have much value to anyone.
I've installed the latest version of Home Assistant and copied over my configuration files. I need to change a few things that don't work with this version and try out some of the newer features. I see they just added an automation editor. I had been thinking this would be a useful feature as setting things up manually in the config files can be a little hit and miss.
I will find some use for the old Pi. These things use so little power that there's no real issue with leaving them on all the time. I heard from a few people on the previous post who use them for VPN, mining or playing old games.
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