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Arduino Remote Home #15

Wow I can’t believe 5 months has past since ARH 14 was posted. I’ve accomplished a few things and have created some new issues. As for the server not responding...

Arduino Remote Home #14

Some time ago I said I was having trouble with my web-server and I was going to dig deep into the code for answers. Well I did. But before I blabber on about th...

I would like to apologize!

For what you say? For muting you. I was bragging about Steemit over father’s day with my young adult children. They were asking good questions. As the conversat...

Inexpensive Landscape Lighting

Ever have an idea of how you want something to look, feel or work and no matter how many searches you do, you just can’t find it? Of course you have. It wasn’t ...

dogsofsteemit challenge! Can’t help myself

Have you ever seen such a beauty? My daughter took this picture of Hazel with her iPhone 6. It’s unedited. She also took this one of Westley. I’m realizing afte...

My pupps

Sorry to my followers expecting another Home Automation post. I got sucked in to my feed and found a contest promoting dogs by @supernovastaffy. Well the only t...

Arduino Remote Home #13

As promised here’s the Uno cradled in its new home. I believe I’ve figured out my space issue as well. The second floor control center should fit into a standar...

Arduino Remote Home #12

As a minor follow up to my last post, I’ve decided to move the two relays that get energized by, the GDO motor running, and GDO light, into the control box. The...

Arduino Remote Home #11

As I was wiring the panel for the left garage door monitoring system I started thinking about, what and if, I would change about my home automation system. The ...

Arduino Remote Home #10

Well I’ve been working on tying up some of the loose ends of Phase I. While working on the left garage door control box, it dawned on me that I didn’t cover a c...

Arduino Remote Home #9

I find it ironic that the garage portion of this project is the closing part of this blog, at least for now. The irony is that a left open garage door, is the w...

Arduino Remote Home #8

I’m such an dummy! A few posts ago I said my number of posts was off by one. Well that was true but I didn’t realize that comments count as posts. I’m learning....

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The greatest man I have ever known.

So taking a few days off from my home automation blog, has giving me time to take pause and reflect on things. Time to look back and really find out why I’m doi...

Arduino Remote Home #7

I realize Christmas lighting season A) has come and gone. or B) will be here before you know it. Either way I wanted to show the lights on the fence I keep talk...

Arduino Remote Home #6

I must say I’ve noticed that the number of posts I reportedly made is 7. Not that its a big deal, but the real number is 6. Ie: 1 less than what is reported. Do...

Arduino Remote Home #5

Today I would like to talk code. I must start by saying, when it comes to writing clean, efficient code, I’m probably not the best person to be posting, as I pu...

Arduino Remote Home #4

Hi and welcome back! A short post this time, just to follow through. Near the end of the video about wiring switches I said I would find my drawing on how to tu...

Arduino Remote Home #3

Before going on, I need to make a correction. I said that the output reed relays have 5v coils and were switching 5v, that was incorrect. They are actually swit...

Arduino Remote Home #2

As promised, lets dive in. If you have read from the first post you know I said that the garage door was the reason for my home automation project. I would like...