zigbee, zwave, X10 which one for what ?
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Posted 26 April 2011 - 05:11 PM
#2
Posted 26 April 2011 - 09:30 PM
Z-Wave/Zigbee/Insteon have largely replaced X10. Insteon is SmartHome's X10 replacement and is primarily a powerline protocol.
Z-Wave and Zigbee have seen the most adoption. The struggle with Zigbee is that pretty much no one has adopter the true "home automation" standard...they mostly all have proprietary implementations.
If you go with Z-Wave (which is a semi-confidential licensed protocol), you can get products from a lot of different manufacturers. You can do basic control of a number of devices from Netduino using something like Leviton's Vizia RF RS232 Interface.
Chris
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Posted 26 April 2011 - 11:52 PM
#4
Posted 27 April 2011 - 08:24 AM
If you go with Z-Wave (which is a semi-confidential licensed protocol), you can get products from a lot of different manufacturers. You can do basic control of a number of devices from Netduino using something like Leviton's Vizia RF RS232 Interface.
Thanks, it will be my next toy !
For the remotes, I used XBee stand-alone (which is cool) and also the Arduino Fio, depending on the application
What component are you using to control XBEE ?
I don't use the .NET stuff on Netduino Plus! I put FreeRTOS on and just program in C mostly (out in left field as always).
Can you tell why you do not use .NET stuff ? can you recommend resources on FreeRTOS ? (To learn how to program and install it)
For the remotes, I used XBee stand-alone (which is cool) and also the Arduino Fio, depending on the application
I'm new in electronic, forgive me if my question seems obvious. Why do you use an Ardiuno FIO instead of a Netduino Mini ?
Given the technical specs they have same power consumption to me.
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Posted 27 April 2011 - 04:18 PM
It can be configured to wake up and report an input, so for the simple case, XBee is all by itself with a battery pack that is just 2 AA cells (it sleeps almost all the time)! For the Arduino Fio case, the mega328p gives 100% control, and is designed to run right off a LiPo battery pack.
What component are you using to control XBEE ?
Can you tell why you do not use .NET stuff ? can you recommend resources on FreeRTOS ? (To learn how to program and install it)
I'm new in electronic, forgive me if my question seems obvious. Why do you use an Ardiuno FIO instead of a Netduino Mini ?
Given the technical specs they have same power consumption to me.
The Arduino Fio is very much lower power consumption than the Netduino. Plus a mega328p will sleep very well. The CPU on the Netduino is not designed for low power sleeping, and the board is not designed to be particularly low power either. The Fio is. Each has a place.
I don't use the .NET stuff after I found out what the interrupt routines were actually doing (s-l-o-w) and that the development tools were a bit flakey in VirtualBox (I use Linux). For me it was easier to experiment without a .net and that has been fun. Just c language, and direct control of everything. I *DONT* recommend this for just starting out, there is no roadmap or tutorial. The .NET will be much more friendly. Once again, each has a place.
For me it has been a lot of fun to get FreeRTOS running on the board, eventually I ended up building my own support utilities, building the compiler from source, making my own hacked programmer from a Python project called "SAM-I-AM" to replace the Atmel SAM-BA, etc. This is all fun to me but obviously not the way to go if you actually have a goal other than avoiding cutting the grass!
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