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it's ad-hoc, breadboardy, and...
Aug. 18th, 2021 09:57 pm...janky as fuck, but you know what else it is?
FUCKIN' WORKING MATE ☆*:.｡.ヽ(；▽；)ノ .｡.:*☆
Since it was built - we weren't the first owners - this house has had a disused and nonfunctional security system. But I wanted to use some of its sensors for other purposes, and I new at least some of them worked.
So I went at it to map all its sensors and figure out what was working, and what did and did not have built-in sensors, so I could hook them up to an Arduino board and with software on it and on one of the servers, report physical status of the house.
First thing I found is that some of the sensors were working but wired up wrong inside the box. One sensor wasn't wired in at all. Why not? Got me.
Second thing I found is that some of the sensors didn't seem to work at all no matter how you wired and/or tested them. And they were wired differently to some of the ones that were working - but not all of the ones that were working.
Of course, half the ones I wanted to use were amongst the ones not working. So despite being pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get them back up and running, I decided to investigate anyway, which is where I discovered 1) I could get them working and 2) they had never worked, and could never have worked, because someone, presumably new to the job, fucked up real bad at install time.
But your dirty socks can't stop me, and I did in fact get them working with more powerful magnets than standard, well enough to have some use if anyone wants to use the security system, and entirely well enough for my ventilation cooling purposes. So, y'know, go me and all that.
So now the vent system has direct knowledge of the state of a bunch of physical parts of the house. Hopefully more later! And since I did get shit working, I decided to see if I could get the old security system actually booted and running. Just once.
never seen the 'ready' light actually ready before
Aw yeah. READY TO ARM.
It should have turrets. It does not have turrets. But it should.
( Bonus content )
FUCKIN' WORKING MATE ☆*:.｡.ヽ(；▽；)ノ .｡.:*☆
Since it was built - we weren't the first owners - this house has had a disused and nonfunctional security system. But I wanted to use some of its sensors for other purposes, and I new at least some of them worked.
So I went at it to map all its sensors and figure out what was working, and what did and did not have built-in sensors, so I could hook them up to an Arduino board and with software on it and on one of the servers, report physical status of the house.
First thing I found is that some of the sensors were working but wired up wrong inside the box. One sensor wasn't wired in at all. Why not? Got me.
Second thing I found is that some of the sensors didn't seem to work at all no matter how you wired and/or tested them. And they were wired differently to some of the ones that were working - but not all of the ones that were working.
Of course, half the ones I wanted to use were amongst the ones not working. So despite being pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get them back up and running, I decided to investigate anyway, which is where I discovered 1) I could get them working and 2) they had never worked, and could never have worked, because someone, presumably new to the job, fucked up real bad at install time.
But your dirty socks can't stop me, and I did in fact get them working with more powerful magnets than standard, well enough to have some use if anyone wants to use the security system, and entirely well enough for my ventilation cooling purposes. So, y'know, go me and all that.
So now the vent system has direct knowledge of the state of a bunch of physical parts of the house. Hopefully more later! And since I did get shit working, I decided to see if I could get the old security system actually booted and running. Just once.
never seen the 'ready' light actually ready before
Aw yeah. READY TO ARM.
It should have turrets. It does not have turrets. But it should.
( Bonus content )
