Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by bedros on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:14PM
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it's the ecosystem, you can find zwave switches, plugs, everywhere, there is no wifi switch I can find.
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Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by askvictor on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:53PM
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Esp8266 based wifi switches can be had quite cheap (sonoff is one of the brands)
Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by bedros on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @06:57PM
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looks perfect for my needs, is there any REST API documentation?
Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by askvictor on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:02PM
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Dunno, but you can flash any esp8266 firmware onto it and roll your own API (or other smarts)
Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by bedros on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:08PM
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I mean write my own script to turn on/off the switch such as using wget or libcurl
Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by askvictor on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:21PM
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Yeah, you could flash a simple Arduino sketch with such an API, and use that, assuming you can't access the in built API
Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by stingrae on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:41PM
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tplink and belkin wemo both make WiFi switches and plugs.
Re:Creating a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi
by mrb on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:26AM
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IIRC the Belkin Wemo plug runs a full-blown Linux OS. Disgustingly over-engineered! Complex software & hardware means less reliability.
A remotely controlled plug should be running tens of kB of firmware, at most, and that includes crypto libraries. It shouldn't be running the megabytes of code that an embedded Linux OS represents.
Yuck.