In my home, I have about 14 environmental sensors installed throughout the house. I use 2 - EDS JB6 junction boxes which simples the installation of my 1-Wire network using a star topology (a star topology means I have individual cable runs running from a central point to each of the 1-wire sensors). Each sensor is then connected to either an HA7Net or and OWServer Intelligent 1-Wire Interface Adapters (only one 1-wire adapter is needed). The EDS 1-wire interface adapters allow multiple clients to connect so I can have HomeSeer pull temperature readings while viewing the results using the built in web server.
Cable Runs:
I used an unused cable pair of my home phone network to quickly add temperature sensors in every room that has a phone. For the remaining runs, I simply pulled a cat 5 cable to various locations (basement, attic, family room, outside). Each cable run has 1 or more sensors installed (e.g. temperature, humidity, light detector, lightning sensor, counters, etc.)
For anyone interested in installing a 1-wire network, I am providing a few pictures of my setup and a screenshot of the web page provided by the new OWServer intelligent 1-Wire interface adapter supported by the Ultra1Wire2 HomeSeer plug-in.
Comments and questions are welcome.
Regards,
Ultrajones
Cable Runs:
I used an unused cable pair of my home phone network to quickly add temperature sensors in every room that has a phone. For the remaining runs, I simply pulled a cat 5 cable to various locations (basement, attic, family room, outside). Each cable run has 1 or more sensors installed (e.g. temperature, humidity, light detector, lightning sensor, counters, etc.)
For anyone interested in installing a 1-wire network, I am providing a few pictures of my setup and a screenshot of the web page provided by the new OWServer intelligent 1-Wire interface adapter supported by the Ultra1Wire2 HomeSeer plug-in.
Comments and questions are welcome.
Regards,
Ultrajones
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