Manuel Wick - Matronix.de

How to get a PC integrated into your HomeAutomation

In my constant effort to integrate more stuff into my home automation setup, one thing was bugging my for some time: The A/V stuff as well as the ambient lighting in my living room was already integrated, but not the damn PC.

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IoP - Control logic details - and a Raspberry Pi

The control logic is implemented in the IrrigationController class. Because it usually is hard to describe program flow details in text form, I created some flow charts.

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IoP - Problems with the reservoir fill level sensor and SNTP

Sadly, the reservoir fill level sensor has proven to be unreliable. I was planning to use a voltage measurement over a voltage divider, which is influenced by the number of gold contacts covered in water. It's starting to go crazy when the pump is turned on...

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IoP - Software progress and hardware installation

The software is progressing, maybe a little slower than I planned. But that's mainly a problem of finding some free time to work on it. But this weekend I got some time to populate all needed hardware components in the IP67 enclosure!

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IoP - Current status & ESP32 Design Contest 2018

This post is just a quick status update. It's mostly about the software side, because that's what I have mostly been working on the last weeks. I already mentioned some of the things, but I try to give a full view of the current state this time.

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IoP - Bringing up the Irrigation Controller board

In the last article I talked about my motivation and some thoughts and design goals of the Irrigation Controller. In this article I will talk about bringing up the board for the first time - hardware- and software-wise.

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IoP - Internet of Plants

Let's face it: I'm a poor gardener. My main problem: Forgetting to water the plants. I'm thinking about this problem for many years now. Many ideas came to my mind, but I didn't actually start something in this regard. Until now!

A new start

My website got pretty outdated over the last ten years, I guess. I didn't only use it to show some of my projects, hobbies and interests, but also to try out PHP, MySQL and web technologies. That has changed now! Here I explain why I'm doing a different approach now.