Hi,
I'm looking for some advice or someone willing to share their experience.
I am installing a wireless door sensor to remotely monitor the status of an external door. I'm happy with building the remote indicator board which shows LEDs for the status of the door, Green = Closed, Yellow = Open, Red = Open for extended period. This I have prototyped using an Arduino and have all the logic working, I just need to remotely sense the status of the door.
I have some experience using Lloytron wireless devices which previously has allowed me to sense a bell press or magnectic contact being opened. Unfortunately for this project I need to sense when the door has been closed as well as when it is opened. The Lloytron sensor only sends on the door opening.
I looked at MiHome products from Energenie.co.uk and their MIHO033 wireless sensor seems ideal as it sends a message on opening and closing. Unfortunately I cannot find any example code to capture the message. Looking around the web they have a remote transceiver designed for connection to a Raspberry Pi (PI-MOTE2) - I can probably physically connect this to an Arduino but need help on the code to read messages received. - I don't want to use a Raspberry Pi for this project as it is over kill and cost prohibitive.
Are their any other commercial off the shelf wireless magnetic sensors that can send a message on opening and closing which can easily be interfaced to an Arduino? Looking around there are a lot of products that will interface to a gateway and the the web, but again this is over kill and cost prohibitive. I did see products such as the Xiaomi Door sensor(http://www.banggood.com/2pcs-Origina...p-1017541.html) but before I start buying too many samples I thought I would see if anyone has already invented this wheel. :-)
SO, I'm looking for a commercial wireless magnetic door contact which generates a message on opening AND closing which can easily be received and decoded by an Arduino.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
MikeM
IT Tech
I'm looking for some advice or someone willing to share their experience.
I am installing a wireless door sensor to remotely monitor the status of an external door. I'm happy with building the remote indicator board which shows LEDs for the status of the door, Green = Closed, Yellow = Open, Red = Open for extended period. This I have prototyped using an Arduino and have all the logic working, I just need to remotely sense the status of the door.
I have some experience using Lloytron wireless devices which previously has allowed me to sense a bell press or magnectic contact being opened. Unfortunately for this project I need to sense when the door has been closed as well as when it is opened. The Lloytron sensor only sends on the door opening.
I looked at MiHome products from Energenie.co.uk and their MIHO033 wireless sensor seems ideal as it sends a message on opening and closing. Unfortunately I cannot find any example code to capture the message. Looking around the web they have a remote transceiver designed for connection to a Raspberry Pi (PI-MOTE2) - I can probably physically connect this to an Arduino but need help on the code to read messages received. - I don't want to use a Raspberry Pi for this project as it is over kill and cost prohibitive.
Are their any other commercial off the shelf wireless magnetic sensors that can send a message on opening and closing which can easily be interfaced to an Arduino? Looking around there are a lot of products that will interface to a gateway and the the web, but again this is over kill and cost prohibitive. I did see products such as the Xiaomi Door sensor(http://www.banggood.com/2pcs-Origina...p-1017541.html) but before I start buying too many samples I thought I would see if anyone has already invented this wheel. :-)
SO, I'm looking for a commercial wireless magnetic door contact which generates a message on opening AND closing which can easily be received and decoded by an Arduino.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
MikeM
IT Tech
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