fanatic · Jan 15, 2014

I have been playing with a project that should when complete switch a bank of relays or send code to wireless devices.

Currently I can control from my phone at click of an onscreen button

I'm looking at 4-8 channels open source code and possible selling price of £70

I thought it could be used for outside lights/model railway or something similar and will have range of household wireless router.

So first question has anyone seen anything commercially cheaper with similar specification or any other uses.

L90 BCM · Jan 15, 2014

Do you mean something like this
BroadLink SP1 Smart Plug Wi-Fi Remote Control Socket for iPhone 4 / 4S / 5 / Android Cellphone - Free Shipping - DealExtreme

Giantswood · Jan 15, 2014

Some form of home automation ?

fanatic · Jan 15, 2014

L90 BCM said:
Do you mean something like this
BroadLink SP1 Smart Plug Wi-Fi Remote Control Socket for iPhone 4 / 4S / 5 / Android Cellphone - Free Shipping - DealExtreme

Giantswood said:
Some form of home automation ?

In a way yes, initial product would be relay box so from phone you could control upto 8 relays initially

The second part of the project would microprocessor sending wireless so 433mhz or similar coding sent to wireless socket adapters for instance.

Yes it could be home automation and it has been done before-but either geek experiment or £500 + installation.

The idea was a modular system with open source software and option to upgrade with optional extras or memory card update.

fanatic · Jan 15, 2014

Basically gpio control over lan using html and java script

Giantswood · Jan 15, 2014

Take a look at RFXcom.com

fanatic · Jan 15, 2014

Giantswood said:
Take a look at RFXcom.com

That looks expensive compared to what I had planned and while not trying to reinvent the wheel- it seems home automation is expensive.

Giantswood · Jan 15, 2014

fanatic said:
That looks expensive compared to what I had planned and while not trying to reinvent the wheel- it seems home automation is expensive.

I've dabbled a little with home automation and it is expensive so if you can make more cost effective modules etc you may be onto something

fanatic · Jan 15, 2014

Giantswood said:
I've dabbled a little with home automation and it is expensive so if you can make more cost effective modules etc you may be onto something

Out of interest there is a company called loxone and their 16 way server is £479 when I last looked + installation.

The brains of the unit will be arm based, my niche is an assembled and ready to go product-but one that can be modified in many ways, I am still considering profit margin-but £15-20 per unit seems an aim.

could you give me an indication on what you class as cheap and what you class as expensive please?

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