Desert Home

I live in the Arizona Desert, Southwestern USA. It gets hot here, and my power bills got out of hand. This is a journal of my various efforts to bring this problem under control using the cheapest technology I could find. Saving money shouldn't cost a fortune.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Using XBee Broadcast

OK, I have no life; I admit it. I modified the sketch for the power monitor to transmit the power reading over my (brand new) XBee network...

Monday, March 21, 2011

Still messing with XBees, probably will be for a long time

I just published my findings on XBee implementation. It's really not the fault of the designers of these little devices that they seem ...

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

First XBee running

Spent most of the day rebuilding the power monitor in the garage and interfacing it to an XBee. I had forgotten how I built the monitor so ...

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Time to rebuild some stuff

I've been experimenting with XBees and they seem to work if you try hard enough and follow enough conflicting instructions from various ...

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Hardware failure.....darn

After a few months of working perfectly I had a WiShield die. It failed in a rather obscure way though; the darn thing is causing my power ...

Monday, February 21, 2011

This is so Cool

I went a little nuts on the whole house monitor. This seems like the ultimate place to collect and analyze data. With a dedicated computer...

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Started my whole house monitor

While I'm waiting for parts to come in I started on my monitor for the whole house. This is where I'll incorporate all the controls...

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