Yet another home automation project

Woop!

The signing library is now a lot more useful, making it possible to use any payload you wish however you wish. More testing is needed but it looks promising.

Signing library has been turned more universal, but because of that I also broke it, needs more work but it's looking okay. github.com/Avamander/RF24Signing

To whoever stumbles upon this:

I have temporarily suspended the development of my home automation system. Will return to this if I find time to spare. One day...

Well, I have to now manually manage AVR's memory to properly buffer payloads that are almost going to be sent. It is taking a lot more effort finalizing the library than anticipated.

The signing library I have written in the past few days has finally started functioning in only a little below optimal parameters. But it'll take quite a bit to refactor it.

• Writing basic signing library (software based at the moment) I want the base to work properly.
• Got proper nRF24L01+ modules. Seriously f*** the clones

Things in progress:

• I am currently exploring signing RF24Mesh messages with ATSHA204A
• Long term testing the library if any issues arise
• PIR sensors (those 0.99£ ones) are somewhat tolerable quality, in many cases it does not detect quick enough.
• Rewriting control utility in Python
• Learning Java for Android app (Material design is awesome)

Took some photos too, will see if I will be able to upload some.

Weekend begun, spent a day fixin' stuff

• Doing a GUI for the project in Python is times more complicated than in Processing, but it's going to be worth it
• The cheap PIR modules you get from eBay are funky, they seem to calibrate themselves to a certain environment or light setting and then they give false readings, I need to find something that auto-recalibrates.
• My common code library is awful, it desperately needs rewriting. I would just love to nuke the library I wrote but I need it :(

Hopefully I'll start making more progress now that Arduino IDE actually works properly. (If one excludes my poor Python GUI writing that delays things)

Did quite a bit:

• Found an old vintage phone (huge one) from the attic, stripped empty inside before I got it.
• Soldered together a few more nodes, last one looks really neat.
• My overlay chip does not want any changes to it's EEPROM for some reason, will delay using it :/
• My ethernet module came in the mail, quite neat, but I have no idea if I'll use it in my home automation. Maybe as a backup master node if one goes down? I'll see if the library supports it.
• Writing an Android app is a PITA on an old computer.

So many things to try out and so small amount of free time.

• Just received my MAX7456 overlay board altho programming it was a pain.That means my TV got smarter. When the system is done, I'll upload 1.5.6 Arduino IDE compactible libraries.
• Moved few more nodes to prototype plates instead of breadboards they were on.