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Chris' Blog: October 2014

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Monday, October 27, 2014. Simple LIFX HTTP API Status Checker for Imperihome. I wanted to add a widget to my Imperihome. Set-up telling me if my LIFX API was still running. If you check my earlier post. You'll see that I am running the unofficial Ruby LIFX HTTP API from https:/ github.com/chendo/lifx-http. Sudo apt-get install lighttpd. Sudo apt-get install php5-common php5-cgi php5. Sudo service lighttpd force-reload. Sudo chmod 775 /var/www.

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Chris' Blog: February 2013

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Friday, February 15, 2013. PHP Library for Receiving from/Transmitting to the USB IR Toy v2 Ready! I am a fan of PHP. I am lazy, and I don't really want to learn Python. Since the IR Toy is a critical component for my next Raspberry Pi project. Of which the code would be primarily written in PHP), I needed a PHP library to interface with the IR Toy. I decided to port it to PHP. Thanks, Chris! My library is unoriginally called "phpIRToy". One se...

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Chris' Blog: Putting the pieces together in anticipation...

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Monday, March 3, 2014. Putting the pieces together in anticipation. It's been a while since I posted here. Primary reason, I had a daughter last March. (my free time disappeared literally overnight). Now that we're getting settled, it's time to get back into the home automation game. Will I still hack around with the Raspberry Pi? I think so. More on that later. The kit included the controller (the Vera Lite. 3 Fibaro dimmer switches. As mentio...

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Chris' Blog: May 2014

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Monday, May 12, 2014. Curtains and Blinds with Vera Lite and Fibaro Shutter Relay. About two months ago, I started looking into home automation solutions as the condo my wife and I bought way back in February of 2011 was going to finally complete soon - and since it would be ours (and not rented from someone else), I figured I could finally do some fun projects to make it "ours"! In comes Home Automation. I wrote a couple of posts before here.

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Chris' Blog: April 2014

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. I have a goal - to get my sensors to run on AA batteries for several months at a go. We'll see if I can achieve that. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My Old Blog - Temporary. Born in Rochester, Michigan, grew up in Hong Kong and Beijing, went to Uni at University of Michigan, 6 years in Beijing again, and finally, Singapore. Dare I say, settling down? View my complete profile. Travel template. Powered by Blogger.

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Chris' Blog: Curtains and Blinds with Vera Lite and Fibaro Shutter Relay

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Monday, May 12, 2014. Curtains and Blinds with Vera Lite and Fibaro Shutter Relay. About two months ago, I started looking into home automation solutions as the condo my wife and I bought way back in February of 2011 was going to finally complete soon - and since it would be ours (and not rented from someone else), I figured I could finally do some fun projects to make it "ours"! In comes Home Automation. I wrote a couple of posts before here.

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Chris' Blog: March 2013

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Saturday, March 2, 2013. ThermostatPi - Controlling airconditioning with the Raspberry Pi and USB IR Toy - First Release! Finally got around to getting the first release of my current project up! And it makes use of a Raspberry Pi. A USB IR Toy 2. See my library here. Your bargain basement DS18B20 One Wire Temperature Sensor. Some Blu-Tack, and a few other miscellaneous wires and such. I wrote everything in PHP. I used Foundation. Lastly, I use...

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Chris' Blog: March 2014

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. First batch of arduino parts received [Updated]. I posted a few weeks. Ago about a recent purchase I made on eBay for raw parts that would allow me to make my own sensors for my home automation project. I received a few items already. What is pictured is the following:. 10x Arduino Pro Mini ATmega328 5V 16M boards. For use by some of the remote sensors that need 5V. 5x Arduino Pro Mini ATmega328 3.3V 8M boards. I posted...

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Chris' Blog: Connecting LIFX Bulbs with Vera (Z-Wave)

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Sunday, October 26, 2014. Connecting LIFX Bulbs with Vera (Z-Wave). A quick guide on how I got my bulbs (sort of! Connected to my Vera network. No real trickery here. And the bulbs themselves aren't yet added, instead, I focused on creating common scenes and made scenes in Vera. A Raspberry Pi (or other *nix computer that you're happy with keeping on all the time). This took forever to finsih! Sudo aptitude install git-core. Note here i'm using...

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Chris' Blog: Automatically lock Yale Z-Wave Lock with Vera and Fibaro Door Sensor

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The blog of Chris Drumgoole - Traveler, technologist, human. Sunday, November 2, 2014. Automatically lock Yale Z-Wave Lock with Vera and Fibaro Door Sensor. I got another toy today - the Fibaro Door and Window Sensor FGK-107. I purchased the Fibaro Z-Wave Door and Window sensor (FGK-107) today for the primary purpose of being able to tell when the door is closed (or not). The idea is, program a trigger so when the door is closed, send a signal to the lock to lock itself. Click on New Scene. I purchased t...