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Comment on Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-) by Ian McPartland

Ian McPartland — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:09:02 +0000

I work at Z-Wave Ireland and we are always looking at new Z-Wave projects to do for people.. I would just like to say i followed this install and it works perfectly.. thanks for the great blog…

Ian

Comment on RGB, RGBW, Digital RGB, Arduino, Z-Wave, XBee / ZigBee, Raspberry Pi, JeeNode…….decisions, decisions! by Stairway Lighting – Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to the rescue, another job jobbed! | Why? Because I Can!

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 19:36:48 +0000

[…] when I began this project I’d picked up a Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller for the spares cupboard as one of the possible […]

Comment on Stairway Lighting – Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to the rescue, another job jobbed! by The future’s bright, the future’s RED, Node-RED | Why? Because I Can!

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:08:31 +0000

[…] been migrating across to Vera whenever that’s been possible – the recently completed Stairway Lighting Project is a good example of that. In fact, most of the lighting control is in the capable hands of Vera […]

Comment on xAP Floorplan by The future’s bright, the future’s RED, Node-RED | Why? Because I Can!

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:49:12 +0000

[…] at the core Home Automation system that is still running on the xAP protocol using the excellent xAP Floorplan for most of the logic and […]

Comment on Cloudy with a chance of saving some cash! by The future’s bright, the future’s RED, Node-RED | Why? Because I Can!

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:48:24 +0000

[…] readers will remember that last year I completed a “move to the Cloud” for some of my less critical systems and this allowed me to turn off one of the two […]

Comment on The 10 Home Automation Commandments by Stairway Lighting – Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to the rescue, another job jobbed! | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:46:39 +0000

[…] the Arduino based prototype for the stairway lighting project just didn’t stand up to the 7th Commandment, that of 99.99% […]

Comment on Project Disco Stairway Lighting Is A Go – xAP, Arduino and WS2801 5050 RGB LED Light Strip Prototype by Stairway Lighting – Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to the rescue, another job jobbed! | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:35:05 +0000

[…] the Arduino based prototype for the stairway lighting project just didn’t stand up to the 7th Commandment, that of 99.99% […]

Comment on Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-) by Stairway Lighting – Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to the rescue, another job jobbed! | Why? Because I Can!

Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:28:02 +0000

[…] I now had both the “output” (the RGBW Controller) and the “input” (the Stair Pressure Mats) in Vera, I decided to implement the Home Automation logic in Vera too, rather than going the […]

Comment on The 10 Home Automation Commandments by Daddy, the garden gate is open again – Visonic, RFXCom, xPLRFX and xAP Floorplan, a technological solution to a behavioural problem :-) | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:49:21 +0000

[…] Magnetic Contact Switches and I had several MCSs in the spares cupboard, so it made sense to “use what I already had“! I could have gone the Z-Wave route, as I’ve been trying to move to more Z-Wave […]

Comment on RGB, RGBW, Digital RGB, Arduino, Z-Wave, XBee / ZigBee, Raspberry Pi, JeeNode…….decisions, decisions! by Project Disco Stairway Lighting Is A Go – xAP, Arduino and WS2801 5050 RGB LED Light Strip Prototype | Why? Because I Can!

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:54:48 +0000

[…] recall that the stairway lighting project is well under way, with the presence detection phase completed and working well. The next phase […]

Comment on The 10 Home Automation Commandments by Project Disco Stairway Lighting Is A Go – xAP, Arduino and WS2801 5050 RGB LED Light Strip Prototype | Why? Because I Can!

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:10:10 +0000

[…] I’d already half-broken the 3rd Commandment by spending more than I really wanted to on the presence detection phase, I really wanted to try […]

Comment on Node Three by Four Nodes | Why? Because I Can!

Four Nodes | Why? Because I Can! — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:13:45 +0000

[…] Node Three […]

Comment on xAP Floorplan by Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-) | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:44:33 +0000

[…] the following week or so, I monitored the triggering using a simple script in xAP Floorplan. Since the Vera has a xAP plugin that sends BSC Event Schema xAP messages it’s fairly […]

Comment on The 10 Home Automation Commandments by Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-) | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:44:14 +0000

[…] that has been on my to-do list for a number of years. After running this project through the 10 Home Automation Commandments, I decided to break it up into two […]

Comment on xAP Floorplan by I Like Big Butts – Monitoring Water Butts With Visonic, RFXCom, xPL And xAP Floorplan | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:26:01 +0000

[…] to bring Visonic, Oregon, HomeEasy, Byron and various other sensors onto the xPL network. xAP Floorplan has an xPL <-> xAP bridge in it and translates the xPL messages into their xAP equivalents in […]

Comment on xAP Speedtest – Internet Speed Monitoring (I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!) by I Like Big Butts – Monitoring Water Butts With Visonic, RFXCom, xPL And xAP Floorplan | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:36:49 +0000

[…] posted before about why a modular Home Automation system is so beneficial when it comes to these sorts of […]

Comment on Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-) by I Like Big Butts – Monitoring Water Butts With Visonic, RFXCom, xPL And xAP Floorplan | Why? Because I Can!

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:08:31 +0000

[…] the Z-Wave route by using a Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor, like I did with the recent stair lighting project. But that would have started to get expensive and I already had some of the Visonic MCS […]

Comment on Automatic loft lighting using Vera and Fibaro by RGB, RGBW, Digital RGB, Arduino, Z-Wave, XBee / ZigBee, Raspberry Pi, JeeNode…….decisions, decisions! | Why? Because I Can!

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:59:43 +0000

[…] of transport mediums available. Higher level protocol wise I can do xAP, xPL, X10, HomeEasy (but why would I?), Visonic, Z-Wave, ZigBee. Should be able to integrate easily enough BUT, my preference would […]

Comment on xAP Floorplan by xAP Speedtest – Internet Speed Monitoring (I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!) | Why? Because I Can!

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:27:24 +0000

[…] xAP Floorplan – my install of this is backed by a MySQL datastore and it’s easy enough to process and log the contents of a xAP or xPL message to a database table […]

Comment on Automatic loft lighting using Vera and Fibaro by Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-) | Why? Because I Can!

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:18:36 +0000

[…] while back, I completed another project off the to-do list, “automatic loft lighting” and for that I used one of the Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensors. These are […]

Comment on RGB, RGBW, Digital RGB, Arduino, Z-Wave, XBee / ZigBee, Raspberry Pi, JeeNode…….decisions, decisions! by Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-) | Why? Because I Can!

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:18:17 +0000

[…] a couple of weeks ago I started to look in earnest at a “stairway lighting” project that has been on my to-do list for a number of years. After running this project […]

Comment on assp – Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server by xAP Speedtest – Internet Speed Monitoring (I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!) | Why? Because I Can!

Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:47:23 +0000

[…] finished migrating the rest of the functions off of that Windows VM (my mail server spam / firewall gateway) I was able to successfully retire it as part of my Cloud […]

Comment on Cloudy with a chance of saving some cash! by xAP Speedtest – Internet Speed Monitoring (I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!) | Why? Because I Can!

Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:47:07 +0000

[…] when I recently moved a bunch of stuff to the Cloud, the Windows VM that JDAST was running on was due to be retired, so I had to find an alternate […]

Comment on Four Nodes by xAP Floorplan | Why? Because I Can!

xAP Floorplan | Why? Because I Can! — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:46:36 +0000

[…] Home web site back in 2010 where I divulged some of the details about my HA set-up (“Four Nodes“), I had several people ask me to give some more information about what I use to control all […]

Comment on Node Two by Four Nodes | Why? Because I Can!

Four Nodes | Why? Because I Can! — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:45:04 +0000

[…] Node Two […]

Comment on Node One by Node Zero | Why? Because I Can!

Node Zero | Why? Because I Can! — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:43:05 +0000

[…] On top you can see the ducting and in-line fan and can see the CAT5 cabling coming down from Node One into the top of the rack. Also visible is a PIR from the Security System (there are over 40 PIRs […]

Comment on Node Zero by Node One | Why? Because I Can!

Node One | Why? Because I Can! — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:38:34 +0000

[…] about to be evicted from bedroom four which was the old Node Zero, I had to come up with a way to maintain use of all the existing CAT5 cabling and avoid ripping up […]

Comment on Node One by Node Three | Why? Because I Can!

Node Three | Why? Because I Can! — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:58:38 +0000

[…] the work carried out previously in Node One allows easy cabling up into the loft, so four CAT5 cables were run and terminated locally into […]

Comment on xAP Floorplan by xAP Send | Why? Because I Can!

xAP Send | Why? Because I Can! — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:49:50 +0000

[…] of scheduled recordings to xAPSend which then appear on the xAP network and are picked up by xAP Floorplan which then performs various script actions accordingly. I run the above command from the […]

Comment on The 10 Home Automation Commandments by RGB, RGBW, Digital RGB, Arduino, Z-Wave, XBee / ZigBee, Raspberry Pi, JeeNode…….decisions, decisions! | Why? Because I Can!

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:36:18 +0000

[…] any situation like this, I always heed my own advice and follow the 10 Home Automation Commandments, so let’s run this project through using that […]

Comment on Node Three by Automatic loft lighting using Vera and Fibaro | Why? Because I Can!

Automatic loft lighting using Vera and Fibaro | Why? Because I Can! — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:34:32 +0000

[…] started my journey with Z-Wave many moons ago, a Linksys NSLU2 aka “Slug” and a TrickleStar USB adapter using the OpenZ-Wave […]

Comment on Node Zero by Cloudy with a chance of saving some cash! | Why? Because I Can!

Cloudy with a chance of saving some cash! | Why? Because I Can! — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:44:02 +0000

[…] I was running eight or nine PCs / Servers 24 / 7 but by 2010 I’d dropped that number down to four and entering 2012 I was finally down to just two serving up Virtual Machines using VMWare vSphere, […]

Comment on xAP FHEM by The 10 Home Automation Commandments | Why? Because I Can!

The 10 Home Automation Commandments | Why? Because I Can! — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:55:49 +0000

[…] / Actuator you could not only achieve the current goal but would also be in good shape to have fine grained control over the entire heating system at a later date (including being able to monitor room […]

Comment on Four Nodes by The 10 Home Automation Commandments | Why? Because I Can!

The 10 Home Automation Commandments | Why? Because I Can! — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:53:08 +0000

[…] question I’m frequently asked is what technology I use in my Home Automation set-up and people always seem surprised when the answer I give takes several hours to […]