Has anyone had experience with the Souliss platform and Arduinos for home automation?
It uses Arduinos connected to your home network and an Android app to interact with the ethernet-connected Arduinos. I tried it out and it works pretty well. They provide the arduino sketches for some common devices (on/off actuation, analog input devices), and you made a few parameter changes and download into your arduino.
But it requires the Arduino to be on the wifi network. That's expensive and inflexible. If you don't have a ethernet port where you want the Arduino, you're stuck with having to use the really expensive wifi cards. I'm looking for a way to use a single ethernet connected Arduino as the gateway, and use cheap nRF24L01's to communicate with a few field nodes. But I'm not familiar enough with Arduino programming to figure out how to edit Souliss sketches to accomplish the same thing.
Anyone here tried something like this? Or maybe you're aware of some other platform that does the same thing as Souliss?
arusr:
Has anyone had experience with the Souliss platform and Arduinos for home automation?
It uses Arduinos connected to your home network and an Android app to interact with the ethernet-connected Arduinos. I tried it out and it works pretty well. They provide the arduino sketches for some common devices (on/off actuation, analog input devices), and you made a few parameter changes and download into your arduino.
But it requires the Arduino to be on the wifi network. That's expensive and inflexible. If you don't have a ethernet port where you want the Arduino, you're stuck with having to use the really expensive wifi cards. I'm looking for a way to use a single ethernet connected Arduino as the gateway, and use cheap nRF24L01's to communicate with a few field nodes. But I'm not familiar enough with Arduino programming to figure out how to edit Souliss sketches to accomplish the same thing.
Anyone here tried something like this? Or maybe you're aware of some other platform that does the same thing as Souliss?
Hi Arus,
you are not obliged to use Ethernet over Souliss, you may use also wireless and wired RS485 connection between the nodes. Actually the nRF24 isn't supported because works on smaller payload than other chips, but is in the todo list.
If you have some nRF24 and want to contribute, you can join the mailing list. I've to include the driver for that radio, but I need also people to test those out.
