- Nov 23, 2014
- 213
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Does anyone recall the TFP member or thread where the guy did tons of DIY software work with sensors and custom displays on his older iphones and ios tablets? It was a long and older thread that had a new post about a month or two ago and despite allegedly clever searching I cannot seem to find it.
The reason I ask - he had posted his preferred provider of myriad sensors and I want to check it out. But I got distracted at the time and I'm old and forgot! @Texas Splash maybe you remember, or others?. Although I try to avoid wireless, there are some things like pool water, refrigerator monitoring, etc., that beg for a simple wireless transmitter and a display that can aggregate them nicely, along with notifications, alarms, etc. I have many different (cheap) wireless transmitter/display combos and such but they all break and signals overlap & interfere with each other. Ideally I'd like to get temperatures from the pool, the spa, the heater outlet, air inside and outside, and perhaps 5 locations in several refrigerators. There are some interesting offerings from Mocreo, but perhaps there is something better. Thanks for any thoughts.
The reason I ask - he had posted his preferred provider of myriad sensors and I want to check it out. But I got distracted at the time and I'm old and forgot! @Texas Splash maybe you remember, or others?. Although I try to avoid wireless, there are some things like pool water, refrigerator monitoring, etc., that beg for a simple wireless transmitter and a display that can aggregate them nicely, along with notifications, alarms, etc. I have many different (cheap) wireless transmitter/display combos and such but they all break and signals overlap & interfere with each other. Ideally I'd like to get temperatures from the pool, the spa, the heater outlet, air inside and outside, and perhaps 5 locations in several refrigerators. There are some interesting offerings from Mocreo, but perhaps there is something better. Thanks for any thoughts.
, but maybe one of these threads is what you were looking for?
I too installed some of my first X10 devices about 30 years ago, but where we diverged perhaps is that 10 years into it I paused, realizing there would be no end to changing protocols, compatibilities and such, many of which lead to device swapping or replacing everything. So now I still have a couple dozen X10 devices, all controlled by a CM11A interface with wall switch overrides, and all of which has been very reliable for over a decade – ever since I found a high quality repeater/amplifier/phase coupler at the panel. But the X10 stuff is an island like most of my other “point solutions”. Like my little $10 temperature controller in the laundry room to control the pool heater via dry contact and a wired thermocouple (in the plumbing before the heater and, yes, should be in the pool, maybe some day). Or the Orbit Bhyve irrigation controller with a zone dedicated to pool fill through the overflow pipe (not fancy or sensing like yours with the toilet fill valve – LOL). Or the pressure switch to safeguard the pool heater when flow stops since I had to bypass the internal heater sensor because it wouldn’t close below 45 GPM when my pump is on low speed. Or the spa-side air plunger that kept going wonky due to the unreliable air receiver in the intermatic spa controller so I outboarded the receiver with an air switch. An adjustable pressure switch logs and texts me when the homeowner’s association runs the main irrigation, notifying me through an Ooma Telo (voip) security feature (grumbling that it uses cloud servers and a fee of $5/month). I use the ooma security for more – a single water sensor is wired/routed all around the attic and down to a pair of wires touching the floor in a half dozen places to get push and email notifications of leaks. But perhaps the biggest reason driving Ooma security is from the smoke and CO alarms, tied together and to a relay that informs ooma through another “water” sensor, with that one set to phone me and text me and offers to call the fire department too. Gotta save the pets!