Who is Lisa?

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Who is Lisa?

#1 Post by LisaM » 04 Jun 2017, 01:06

As an electrotechnical engineer, i know it’s highly unusual for a women, i own a Smart Home build in 2010. It has a basic infrastructure consisting out of many, many different parts like:
- Unifi roamless WiFI
- 48 port Gigabit switch with over 30 ethernet ports in the house
- Zwave micromodules (mainly Fibaro) for almost all light switches and roof windows
- 433MHz devices like sunscreens
- NetAtmo air quality devices
Controlling all these devices is Domoticz, using a combination of blockly events and Lua scripts. Domiticz is running on a Ubuntu rack based server inside my home, where the rack server is connected using serial to both my storkair based air refreshing equipment and my honeywell evohome floor heating.

Not satisfied with the current level of smart home infrastructure i’m busy expanding the infrastructure to include dozens of sensors and led lightning actuators. Some of my current infrastructure is also operating below my level of expectation and needs to be replaced with more reliable infrastructure. The goals of all of this is to have a Smart Home which is capable of ‘follow me’, meaning that the house is on standby where i’m not and active where i am. For example lightning is going on where i am and off where i’m not.

Last year i found ESPEasy, by sheer chance , when looking for alternatives for unreliable 433MHz equipment and zwave sensors. Zwave micro modules are great, due to their very small size, but they lack basic intelligence making it harder to have them work independant from the central server.
After ordering a number of ESP-01/ESP-12/NodeMCU's and dozens of sensors for them, i'm now busy deploying them into my home. There they will run for a while, checking out reliability and if the promised local intelligence materializes enough to perform tasks independant of the central server.

They cannot replace the zwave micro modules, to bulky, but might serve well as door sensor (esp-01 on batteries) or local control where there's room for a bulky box.

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#2 Post by psy0rz » 04 Jun 2017, 23:35

sounds awesome! any pictures of your setup?
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#3 Post by LisaM » 06 Jun 2017, 15:57

psy0rz wrote: 04 Jun 2017, 23:35 sounds awesome! any pictures of your setup?
With 326 devices it will be hard to show all of the setup, but i'll post some pictures of the key components...

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#4 Post by vojtishek » 06 Jun 2017, 21:23

wow, pretty impressive
now I´m feeling like a total rookie :)

Really nice to have you here

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#5 Post by psy0rz » 06 Jun 2017, 23:35

lol thats a lot :)
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#6 Post by LisaM » 07 Jun 2017, 00:49

Here's my central server, an i5 with 32GB mem and 512GB ssd running ubuntu and several virtualbox vm's running win10. The server is located in my 48HE rack which has it's own space in my machine room, the room is centrally located in the house where all equipment is running. The house was designed around this room.
The server is the second rack from above, with the zwave stick sticking out on the front. The rack also contains UPS, another rackserver, a synology rackstation with backup with in total 40TB of diskspace. On top is my 48 port gigabit switch which is almost full now, 32 of these ports are spread around the house.
Everything together consumes around 300watt, due to 26 solarpanels on my roof it doesn't cost anything. :-)
It's also a single point of failure, so i'm moving towards a node based setup where failure means a more gradual degradation of house performance.

(i have no idea why it's tilting my image... :( )
My 48HE Rack
My 48HE Rack
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Re: Who is Lisa?

#7 Post by LisaM » 07 Jun 2017, 00:56

vojtishek wrote: 06 Jun 2017, 21:23 wow, pretty impressive
now I´m feeling like a total rookie :)

Really nice to have you here
We all start with one and then get addicted to it... ;)

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#8 Post by psy0rz » 10 Jun 2017, 13:33

cool :)
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#9 Post by TD-er » 24 Jan 2018, 01:00

LisaM wrote: 07 Jun 2017, 00:56
vojtishek wrote: 06 Jun 2017, 21:23 wow, pretty impressive
now I´m feeling like a total rookie :)

Really nice to have you here
We all start with one and then get addicted to it... ;)
Ah, nice to read about to what it may lead, this addiction.
The mailman visits my house almost daily with sensors, stuff and other stuff.

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Re: Who is Lisa?

#10 Post by toffel969 » 24 Jan 2018, 16:06

TD-er wrote: 24 Jan 2018, 01:00
LisaM wrote: 07 Jun 2017, 00:56
vojtishek wrote: 06 Jun 2017, 21:23 wow, pretty impressive
now I´m feeling like a total rookie :)

Really nice to have you here
We all start with one and then get addicted to it... ;)
Ah, nice to read about to what it may lead, this addiction.
The mailman visits my house almost daily with sensors, stuff and other stuff.
... my wife is already complaining that my electronics ("those things you are playing with") are worse than her shoes and bags ;-) she is an engineer too (metallurgy) , but not nearly as neardy as me
Domoticz on Raspi 2 -- 14 ESP units (hacked Sonoff,NodeMCUs, Wemos, self-built units) running with RC140- Mega 2.0.0 dev8

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