IPX800 TouchPanel

Ever wanted to manage your GCE Electronics IPX800 relay boards (more than one at a time!) without using a browser or some complex software, or even expensive hardware? How about a simple to use, powerfull and cheap wall-mount touch panel? With an Arduino, Ethernet shield, a serial touchscreen and this software NOW YOU CAN!

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Working on...

I've been developing the new branch betaV3 version for a few days. It will feature a completely new scenario queue management. This feature will be made on the LCD-side.

Moreover I'm trying to extend interoperability, working on the mainboard-side. Unfortunately the Atmega328 bundled with Arduino Ethernet is not able to host more features, so I'm trying this new approach: ChipKit Uno32 + PoE Ethernet Shield.

Features I'm thinking about:

NTP support for time and date

XPL support

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Feature request

For the upcoming V2-beta3 release I've been thinking about adding those capabilities:

Manage digital input devices (buttons) (4hr work)

Work on a alarm system that uses digital inputs with magnetic switches (e.g. attached to doors or windows) and other sensors to check for intrusions.

Does anybody have any other idea?

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Next days will be dedicated to migrate documentation from the Google Code Wiki.

Hope to write down a more complete and easily understandable guide.

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Unzip the file and put the content of uSD folder into your uSD card.

Changelog:

Added time-based conditions

Added some extra devices: Clock and MEMFREE

Many bug fixed

Release files are now collected, organized and put into a zip file, by a dedicated script.

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I decided to make a domotic home the day I had to move to my new house. Since I had to made new wirings, I started searching for an inexpensive yet easily improvable solution that could grow with time. I found out the gce-electronics boards and tested one, then I decided they were the best choice...

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Preparing for V2 Beta2

Plans: add time-based actions

Changelog:

11/02/12: fixed rx buffer size that messed up time parsing

12/02/12: added time device and time-based condition parsing

13/02/12: added time-based action execution

15/02/12: debugging latest features

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Changelog:

Fixed a bug concerning configuration sent from LCD to Arduino

Code cleanup for readability

Code cleanup for reduced excutable size

Fixed analog device status calculation

General Purpose Status devices can now appear with different icons

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Touchpanel on a wooden frame.

The most simple approach

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I you want to spice up your home electric system, or need a way of controlling industrial processes, and you're looking for an open-protocol, remote controllable I/O board, then you surely need one of gce's boards.

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Touchpanel mounted on its Lego Technic frame

Assembled with pieces from the Mini Tow Truck

This special frame can Pan and Tilt, but I needed to add some extra pieces on it.

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Looking after source code, developing releases and documentation about this project? Have a look here!