Smart Home Projects

Arduino

We do a lot of smart home development and prototyping using Arduino devices and have developed some Arduino components to make this easier:

Irrigation

Appliances & Lighting

HVAC

Heating Controller - Putting our central heating and hot water under full smart home control.

Smart Thermostat - My take on the smart thermostat.

Networks

Secondary Access Point - Setting up a temporary 2.4GHz Wi-Fi access point using an old hub/router, to allow connection of problematic smart home devices that only work on 2.4GHz.

Power

Recycling

My smart home connected waste & recycling bins enables my smart home to intelligently remind us to put the right bins out for collection.

My smart home connected wormery.

Rooms

Toilet Update - Adding smart lighting and other things to our toilet.

Smart Shower - Adding a lot of smartness to our existing shower.

Sensors

User Interfaces & User Experience

A simple 3D printed adapter to allow easy rotation of switch plates in my smart home.

A basic smart mirror used in our bathroom.

Water

Smart water shut-off valve - Built around an 'off the shelf' lever ball valve.

Windows

Automated curtains - Open source hardware project to build automated curtains.

Z-Wave