[ale] OT: Who else plans to get a RaspberryPi?

[Greg Clifton]

Make, model, price???

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
>
> A friend's thermostat died and he went off to Home Depot. Came back with a
> networked thermostat.  As he also has a fixed IP address, he has full
> control of the thermostat with his laptop/phone/whatever internet
> connected device.
> All modern, programmable thermostats have an internal clock.
>
> Sean
>
>
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>
> On Sunday, February 26, 2012 01:43:39 pm Greg Clifton wrote:
> > It is beyond my technical ability to build, but I was wondering if it
> > could be used to make an internet connected smart thermostat that
> > could be run off the power provided by the HVAC transformer and
> > controlled remotely via an android phone. It is cheap enough and power
> > consumption is low enough, that it will find tons of applications, but
> > lacking a real time clock might be a problem for a thermostat. Perhaps
> > there is a better product for such a purpose?
> >
> > Conceptually, I would like to have a thermostat that would optimize the
> > function of my heat pump for both heating and cooling cycles according
> > to outdoor temps and indoor temps & humidity (i.e. raise the set-point
> > during the day to pull in as much heat as possible in winter or lower
> > the set-point early in the day before it gets so hot outside in summer
> > or kick on the AC when it is too humid inside even if the temp is
> > within tolerance) with the capability to adjust/override the settings
> > from my phone. Without spending hundreds of $ for the necessary
> > hardware. Should be simple, right?
> >
> > GC
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ted W <ted at techmachine.net> wrote:
> > > > What kind of projects do you have planned? What kind of
> > > > expectations do you have for it?  Personally, I'm probably going
> > > > to play with it for a bit, no project in particular. I hope to
> > > > eventually make a box to put XBMC on it as it looks like it is
> > > > fairly capable of decoding HD video.
> > >
> > > I plan on it, and my boss knows that well enough that he got GTLIB to
> > > mirror the software distribution.
> > >
> > > I have several projects in mind, personal and work related:
> > > Centrally controlled content filter device for my less tech savvy
> > > relatives with kids
> > > Network monitoring device (already working on this with Sheeva based
> > > devices)
> > > Portable desktop with remote access (naturally)
> > > Smarts for what I guess they should call "dumb" TVs
> > >
> > > bnm
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