10. Sep 2015

DIODER Hack – cheap wireless LED controlling

I decided to buy an IKEA-Dioder, but how boring is it to use the manual controls … wired manual controls … . As part of my little homectrl project I decided to “link” it (make it controlable wirelessly, using homectrl)! Luckily there are

10. Sep 2015

homectrl - the software

It's been a while since my first post about my little homectrl-gateway. From then on I have been working on server-side software as well as some simple client applications. The whole thing is done in Python. For the server side I decided to stick with bottle

11. Oct 2014

homectrl – a raspberry pi based home automation gateway

Hey this is the introduction to a project of mine, to build a cheap home automation gateway using a raspberry pi. The gateway is (for now) capable to control 433mhz outlets and has a small touchscreen to control things directly in