[ale] OT: Who else plans to get a RaspberryPi?

[Drifter]

There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

A friend's thermostat died and he went off to Home Depot. Came back with a 
networked thermostat.  As he also has a fixed IP address, he has full 
control of the thermostat with his laptop/phone/whatever internet 
connected device.
All modern, programmable thermostats have an internal clock.

Sean

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On Sunday, February 26, 2012 01:43:39 pm Greg Clifton wrote:
> It is beyond my technical ability to build, but I was wondering if it
> could be used to make an internet connected smart thermostat that
> could be run off the power provided by the HVAC transformer and
> controlled remotely via an android phone. It is cheap enough and power
> consumption is low enough, that it will find tons of applications, but
> lacking a real time clock might be a problem for a thermostat. Perhaps
> there is a better product for such a purpose?
> 
> Conceptually, I would like to have a thermostat that would optimize the
> function of my heat pump for both heating and cooling cycles according
> to outdoor temps and indoor temps & humidity (i.e. raise the set-point
> during the day to pull in as much heat as possible in winter or lower
> the set-point early in the day before it gets so hot outside in summer
> or kick on the AC when it is too humid inside even if the temp is
> within tolerance) with the capability to adjust/override the settings
> from my phone. Without spending hundreds of $ for the necessary
> hardware. Should be simple, right?
> 
> GC
> 
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ted W <ted at techmachine.net> wrote:
> > > What kind of projects do you have planned? What kind of
> > > expectations do you have for it?  Personally, I'm probably going
> > > to play with it for a bit, no project in particular. I hope to
> > > eventually make a box to put XBMC on it as it looks like it is
> > > fairly capable of decoding HD video.
> > 
> > I plan on it, and my boss knows that well enough that he got GTLIB to
> > mirror the software distribution.
> > 
> > I have several projects in mind, personal and work related:
> > Centrally controlled content filter device for my less tech savvy
> > relatives with kids
> > Network monitoring device (already working on this with Sheeva based
> > devices)
> > Portable desktop with remote access (naturally)
> > Smarts for what I guess they should call "dumb" TVs
> > 
> > bnm
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