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Automating The Espresso Machine
Posted by Paul Rimmer / Sunday, August 22, 2010 (17:42:15) / (1679 reads) Technology


Yesterday I hooked up an external X10 universal module (managed by Homeseer) to control our La Spaziale Mini Vivaldi II espresso machine. Now we don't have to go downstairs every morning to turn the machine on. On weekdays the unit now comes on at 5am and off at 7am, and on weekends its on at 5am and off at 3pm for our morning and afternoon shots. Great little mod!
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Building a Home Temperature Sensor Network
Posted by Paul Rimmer / Monday, August 13, 2007 (20:19:08) / (21817 reads) Technology


I've just finished setting up a 1-wire temperature sensor network in our house. You can see the resulting temperature charts here. It utilizes a couple of great open source packages: OWFS 1-Wire File System and RRDTool.

Read all about the details of how I put it all together here.
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