On this channel, we're gonna make all sorts of cool gadgets. Mostly for Smart Homes, but not just that.
Hey there, I'm Sebastian, an electronics engineer who's crazy about home automation. I'm pumped to share my ideas with you and I'm super interested in hearing yours too. I've got a ton of ideas lined up for future projects, but if you've got something brewing and wanna share, go ahead and drop me a message. Who knows, maybe we'll team up and create a game-changing device that'll shake up the whole market! :)
I've been trying to get in touch with you regards a problem with your website and this project, but I'm not sure if you're receiving my emails, are you contactable via other methods?
I was wondering how to self build a doorphone without video with two bells that uses only one phone line. The components are out there but I have no idea which ones to choose and how to create the program for example an esp32.
Hi, thanks for sharing this project. I'm planning to buold the rain gauge and I have a question about the code for ESPhome: in the deep sleep part you have written "mode: ALL_LOW" as wakeup mode. This way, the rain guage only triggers when the sensor goes from high to low, but not the other way. Am I correct? If so, the rain gauge would count only half of the tippings of the bucket.
It's DIY for sure, but designing pcb's goes over my head at this time... was expecting some moderate soldering and a 3dprinted case :) Anyway it looks great!
Great idea and tutorial! Thanks!!! I adapted it slightly to work with an IKEA PARASOLL door sensor, driven by a AAA-battery. However, the platform + template sensors + the mini-graph card makes it display rainfall per rolling 24 hour period, so right now it's from 22:10 today back to 22:10 yesterday. That makes rainfall/day decrease during the day when it stopps raining... Is it possible to make it per day instead (00:00-23:59) and display last 7 or 14 days? I also tried to make an extra platform+template sensor to display per hour, but now when it has not been raining for about 8 hours, it shows 0.5mm/h for last 8 hours..and I don't understand why... Made it like this: - platform: history_stats name: "Regn Contact Flips/Dry_hour" entity_id: binary_sensor.regn_contact state: "off" type: count start: "{{ now() - timedelta(hours=1)}}" end: "{{ now() }}" - platform: history_stats name: "Regn Contact Flips/Wet_hour" entity_id: binary_sensor.regn_contact state: "on" type: count start: "{{ now() - timedelta(hours=1)}}" end: "{{ now() }}" - sensor: - name: Rainfall [hour] state_class: measurement unique_id: rainfall_hour unit_of_measurement: mm icon: mdi:weather-pouring state: >- {% set count = (states('sensor.regn_contact_flips_dry_hour') | int(0)) + (states('sensor.regn_contact_flips_wet_hour') | int(0)) %} {% set mm = count * 0.52615 %} {% if count >= 0 %} {{ mm|round(1, 'floor') }} {% endif %} And a corresponding mini-graph-card like this: type: custom:mini-graph-card icon: mdi:weather-rainy name: Regn/timme aggregate_func: max hours_to_show: 24 group_by: hour show: graph: bar fill: true icon: false color_thresholds: - value: 50 color: '#8a111e' - value: 25 color: '#c7311c' - value: 10 color: '#fc5a43' - value: 4 color: '#fc8582' - value: 2 color: '#fbab3e' - value: 1 color: '#ebf438' - value: 0.5 color: '#79cf3f' - value: 0.2 color: '#24cbcc' - value: 0 color: '#3296de' entities: - entity: sensor.rainfall_hour state_adaptive_color: false Why does this report 0.5mm/h when it has not been raining and the bucket has not moved? Anyone who knows/understands and can explain to me?
Respect, I admire your skills and great representation. For years I've been thinking about an input tool like this for SolidWorks and Fusion 360 instead of a 3DConnection mouse. They are all beyond my financial reach. Since I would like to have an illuminated font, my question is - could the font be completely lasered and poured with clear transparent resin?
Respekt, ich bewundere deine Fähigkeiten und tollen Representation. Seit Jahren denke ich über so ein Eingabe-Tool für SolidWorks und Fusion 360 nach, anstelle einer 3DConnection-Mouse. Die liegen alle außerhalb meiner finanziellen Reichweite. Da ich gerne eine beleuchtete Schrift hätte, meine Frage - Könnte man die Schrift ganz durch lasern und mit resine ausgießen?
You're definitely an introvert like me. I find myself deep into whatever I'm working on and when someone disrupt me, I have no way of getting back to that work again. So If I have something going on that i would need to finish, no one, I mean not a single person or event should ever disrupt me or else I would procrastinate for days.. Anyway, I wish I could replicate your project to help me work even faster because I am currently bombarded with lots of task and I can't keep up anymore. I feel like quitting these days. I don't "alone time" anymore and that drains me BIG TIME.
Done and built! It hasn't rained yet however everything went together really well. One thing I noticed is if the device becomes unavailable, when it comes back online it counts a closed signal in the history, I found subtracting the total 'unavailable' states from the sensor's history from the total on/off count fixed this problem. Overall a very fun project, many thanks for the design!
This is truly awesome!!! When will the completely assembled PCB or completely assembled rain gauge will be available in your store? I am on the waiting list, but just wanted to get an idea of how long to wait?
Helloooo , Can you teach me how can I use Arduino to measure rainfall intensity? is there a way? It's my idea for thesis purpose hope you can help me, if you know where can I send you a DM? Pleaseee
An improvement would be a separate circuit to only turn on the ESP if it is raining. This could be completely analog for example it could use a 555 timer to see if the bucket has tipped.
Wow, this DIY rain sensor project is truly impressive! You have showcased incredible skills in PCB design, CAD modeling, and 3D printing. The attention to detail in each aspect of the build, from the efficient layout of the PCB to the robust and sleek 3D-printed enclosure is really inspiring. The integration with a 'water-tight' :-) ESP32 for real-time rainfall data monitoring is a fantastic touch. Kudos to you for sharing this detailed and well-executed project. This is a prime example of what dedication and technical expertise can achieve in the DIY community. Great work!
Fantastic and outstanding work👌 I wish I could do the same system to my house. I am also very much the same as you, old school electrician and a hard-wired, oriented person 😅 Thank you for sharing this experience with us. Keep up the marvellous work 👍
thank you for this. brilliant. just one question.. if i want to implement a boolean to find out if it is currently raining, what is the best way to approach it with this as well?
