piACC-Mini-Min
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Ok, I could not just stop at min.
I decided on the first few days of vacation I would come up with a "button only" version.
No screen, no display, just four buttons. (maybe 6 for reboot)
Reusing all of the code for the bluetooth triggers, I was able to get it done in fairly short time.
Press a button, pi zero sends the bluetooth comand to the relay to toggle the relay.
I did however like the idea of using interrupts, though I did end up doing a while loop. This was simply due to the fact that it will only be performing this function and I did not need to sacrifice a GPIO pin for exit since all of the buttons perform the same function.
As it shows in the two pictures that it is able to run along-side the min-version or the console version.
Possibly I could add buttons on the top of the console for manual toggles over a browser based toggle of the relays.
This does also promote an even more reduced footprint and cost overhead.
At approximately $2 per button, $16 for the pi zero (with headers may be overkill at this point, simple solder would suffice), bringing the cost of the mini-min manual console under $25 for a 4-6 button unit.
It would also greatly reduce the size of the 3d Printed mesh to contain it.
An overall price would be $25 for the piACC mini-min console and ($35 relay HAT, $16 pizero WH) = $51 Relay Unit.. to around $75 US.
Not too bad.
I decided on the first few days of vacation I would come up with a "button only" version.
No screen, no display, just four buttons. (maybe 6 for reboot)
Reusing all of the code for the bluetooth triggers, I was able to get it done in fairly short time.Concept
The concept is simple..Press a button, pi zero sends the bluetooth comand to the relay to toggle the relay.
I did however like the idea of using interrupts, though I did end up doing a while loop. This was simply due to the fact that it will only be performing this function and I did not need to sacrifice a GPIO pin for exit since all of the buttons perform the same function.
As it shows in the two pictures that it is able to run along-side the min-version or the console version.Possibly I could add buttons on the top of the console for manual toggles over a browser based toggle of the relays.
This does also promote an even more reduced footprint and cost overhead.
At approximately $2 per button, $16 for the pi zero (with headers may be overkill at this point, simple solder would suffice), bringing the cost of the mini-min manual console under $25 for a 4-6 button unit.
It would also greatly reduce the size of the 3d Printed mesh to contain it.
An overall price would be $25 for the piACC mini-min console and ($35 relay HAT, $16 pizero WH) = $51 Relay Unit.. to around $75 US.
Not too bad.
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