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Heatmizer 9 Zone Heating System

February 19, 2020

After looking through PiHome website I decided that this is just what I need to improve my existing controls – Heatmizer. The price and all functions are unbeatable. I was looking around but could not find any other option. My old System Downstairs: 7 zone underfloor heating with heating manifold – heatmizer underfloor controller and wired thermostats ( 5 of them faulty). Upstairs: One Zone radiator controlled by a zone valve. Hot Water: One Zone controlled by a zone valve.…

nRF24L01 to RFM69CW/RFM69HCW/RFM69W

February 16, 2020

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nRF24L01 to RFM69CW, RFM69HCW and RFM69W adapter compatible with MySensors Library and size is simple replacement for nRF radio without any modification to your PCB. Size/Compatibility nRF24L01 foot print for LoRa RFM69/95 module compatible with RFM69CW RFM69HCW RFM69W modules and it comes with SMA and U.FL socket footprint on pcb. Download Eagle PCB files

PiHome version 1.76

August 5, 2020

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Lets Build, PiHome Releases

PiHome community always working very hard to improve your experience of Smart Heating. PiHome version 1.76 is packed with some serious improvements and bug fixes. If you have any feedback or run into any issues you can always find help on PiHome site. This release packed with some serious improvements and bug fixes. Highlights in This Release There are over 450 changes to PiHome since Last release version 1.75, to name few of major changes: #288 Circulation Pump Overrun #263…

PiHome version 1.75

May 24, 2020

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PiHome Releases

PiHome community always working very hard to improve your experience of Smart Heating. PiHome version 1.75 is packed with some serious improvements and bug fixes. If you have any feedback or run into any issues you can always find help on PiHome site. This release packed with some serious improvements and bug fixes, to name some of them as follow. Highlights in This Release There are over 100 changes to PiHome since Last release version 1.74, to name few of…

Serial Gateway on Raspberry Pi Zero GPIO

January 24, 2020

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There are few ways to connect Serial Gateway to Raspberry pi. The easiest one is via USB port to raspberry pi. Due to the size of raspberry pi zero i prefer to have small PCB which will serve me purpose of gateway, zone and boiler controller. This can reduce the cost of having multi zone smart heating at the same time. Connecting Serial Gateway on Raspberry Pi Zero GPIO Raspberry pi GPIO are 3.3v tolerant but we have to use…

PiHome IFTTT Google Assistance and Node-RED

Link Google Assistant to PiHome

December 28, 2019

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General Help, Your Stories

With a bit of spare time over the Christmas break, I have been working around with my google home and PiHome. I was ready to buy a boost console from PiHome but decided to try my own attempts first. Rather than using a physical button, I decided to try voice commands instead. Below is the description of how I got there – I’m sure you can think of a number of improvements/ a much simply way of coding this, but…

LoRa Sensors, Zone Controller and ESP8266 Gateway

December 22, 2019

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LoRa stand for Long Rang, in this post i will show you what i m up to with LoRa Sensors, Zone Controller and ESP8266 Gateway. PiHome infrastructure i.e. battery powered temperature sensors, zone controller, boiler controller and esp8266 smart home gateway is built with nRF24L01 wireless which operate at 2.4Gh. nRF24L01 is cheap solution but it has range limitation and unable to penetrate through the solid walls and you need repeaters installed around the place to get full coverage. Its…

6 Zone Heating System

September 29, 2019

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Your Stories

I have 5 heating zone to control and domestic hot water in total i have 6 zone heating system, Four zone are on first floor with wired thermostat treated as single zone, ground floor zone with Nest wireless thermostat and domestic hot water with wired thermostat. I have 3 relays (1 for each zone) for upstairs and downstairs with electric zone valve, so when the thermostat close then zone valve power up and open zone and send 220 to zone…

i2C Interface

September 15, 2019

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Low power relays boards are one of the most common interfaces between a Arduino/Raspberry Pi and the outside world. These relay boards provides electrical isolation between the low voltage circuits of the Arduino/Raspberry Pi and the high voltage loads. So why this I2C relay board? i2c relay boards only requires 4 pins from Arduino/Raspberry pi to control up to 128 relay. Raspberry Pi i2c Example of controlling i2c relay board from Raspberry Pi 1 – +5V 2 – GND (common…

PiHome version 1.73

February 22, 2020

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Lets Build

Once more contribution to PiHome Smart Heating by the community. PiHome community always working hard to improve some of exiting feature to make things better. If you have any feedback or run into any issues you can always find help on PiHome site. This release packed with some serious improvements and bug fixes, to name some of them as follow: Highlights in This Release #135 Romanian language Added Latvia language Added #133 Added exception logging and Error handling to Gateway…