npadma:
Hello,I am having two way switches in my room. I am a newbie planning to do some home automation using Arduino and got a few questions in this directions.
--> I am interested to keep the existing AC circuit intact. Would it be possible to add the arduino controlled output into the existing circuit making it a 3-way switch?
Please do let me know of any other alternative approaches if the proposed approach doesn't work.
The overall idea is to have my existing two way switches intact and add an additional switch thats controlled by Arduino enabling home automation.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Hello npadma:
The same that you want I thought it some time ago, and as I did not find anything that it was able to solve my aims, I developed my own solution. I have developed a home automation system based at the Arduino platform and called functiodomo that it lets you to control any electric compontent at your home without modify your electrical instalation.
You can find more information about it here:
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,116788.0.html (english arduino threat of the functiodomo system)
http://www.functiodomo.com/en/functiodomo_web/index.html (english version of www.functiodomo.com)
http://functionars.dyndns.org/functiodomo_wp/ (spanish blog with information and documentation about the system)
You can ask me anything that you want about it. I will try to answer you.