General Help..

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Hi,

Not sure uf this is the right place for this, if not sorry...

I am currently working on a little project where I can turn on my lights outside (which are connected to an outer building) with my iPhone.

And I am wondering if I need a rethink about this..

Firstly at the moment I have a PC in my outer building acting as a webserver and the ardunio is connected to it the USB to com4.

I am running a simple sketch that just monitors com4 and looks for "L" to turn the lights off and "H" to turn them on.

This then is connected to a SSR for switching the high voltage.

I then go on my phone, hit my local website and turn the lights on and off (works a treat :slight_smile: )

Thing is... I don't really want a PC constantly on in my outer building.. I also want to just build a simple cut down arduino on perfboard (or similar) and it looks like by the time I've bought all the parts it's just as cheap to buy another one..

So basically what I'm asking is... is there a nicer way of doing this which means I don't have a PC constantly running and I can build it up quite cheap??

I have been looking at the WIFI sheilds... would this be a good way to go??

any other Ideas??

Cheers

Daz

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WIFI sheilds... would this be a good way to go

Yes but these are expensive. You could use an Ethernet shield running a simple web server. You can then use this to directly turn on your lights. The example files with an Ethernet shield will show you how to get it to run as a web server.

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cool, cheers Grumpy_Mike, I'll look into that :slight_smile:

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mmm the ethernet shields don't look too cheap either.

By the time I'm finished it's gonna be quite an expensive fancy light switch :frowning:

need to rethink me thinks..