Re: Insteon RF SDK

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

Brad,

I've been doing the same thing for a long time although I bought special
order 310MHz transmitter modules direct from the manufacturer in Taiwan (the
same one that Laipac uses) so I could monitor temperature, pressure,
humidity, light level etc. using the same devices (BX24-AHT, roZetta) that I
use for most of my HA, using an extension to the X10 RF protocol. I designed
a small PCB with battery holder, PIC12F675 and opamp buffer that can be used
with almost any 0-5V sensor.

I find SitePlayer too limiting and XPort needs 3.3V conversion plus it
cannot send email beyond the LAN. I'm using the Tibbo EM202 which costs a
wee bit more but is 5V, more flexible and user programmable in Basic.

     http://www.tibbo.com/em202.php

"Brad" <bsnedek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Good Day All,
>
>   Dave I have to agree, though I don't use the Insteon protocol.
>
>   All of the temperature monitoring in my home is done with RF. Its
>simple, clean and not connected to any specific protocol. In the end it
>does tie to my Homeseer server, but thats not hard to convert.
>
>   There are a great deal of nice simple transceivers on the market for
>people to experiment with. And of course if you don't need two way
>communications, it gets easier still. My temperature circuits don't
>need two way comms so I used the simple little Laipac units.
>
>   If you did want some sort of central control point to control
>remotely an RF modem would do the job. You can expand that to an
>ethernet wireless type connection and really have a good old time. More
>and more of my friends and family are installing, or having me install
>wireless hubs and routers in their homes.
>
>   This makes for a solid foundation for home automation. Units like
>SitePlayer, and Xport to name a few make the transistion less costly
>and save a great amount of development time and money. My experiments
>in RF, and ehternet controlls is slow but I have made some good
>progress in shaping my world.
>
> Ta Da
>    Brad
>
>On Oct 20, 2:16 pm, nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:
>> Smarthome has announced release of a $500 RF Development Kit for Insteon.
>>
>>      http://www.smarthome.com/insteon/hdk2600rf.html
>>
>> Given that the RF protocol is fully specified in published documentation, I
>> think a $23 programmable Radiotronix 902-928MHz FSK transceiver (Mouser
>> 509-WIM900X) and the MCU of your choice can probably do the same thing while
>> avoiding the inane restrictions of their license.


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