O.K...
I dissassembled the gamepad... soldered wires to the pc board traces for digital(button) inputs... put in a box with external speaker/spring connectors...
I now have for under $10 bucks in parts and a couple hours of my time.. 11 digital inputs for H.S....
Thank you STIPUS
Question:
The gamepad also had 2 joysticks.. that reported 4 analog values to H.S... (x-axis y-axis and 2 * z-axis)
Looking at the circuit board... each seems to be just a potentiometer hooked to the joystick... (posed 90 degrees apart for the two axis per stick)..
I will eventually try to measure voltages and figure out what the POT value is...
But has anyone hacked a joystick to get external analog inputs into HomeSeer?
What i'd like is :
Ambient Light Outside.
Hot Tub Temperature
External Air Temperature
I can probably figure out how to make a variable resistance or variable voltage output for each of these...
And i can probably figure out how to get these into the analog joystick circuit...
But if someone has already done it... it would save me a good bit of work...
Anyone done anything similar?
I know i could do all of the above with some RFX transmitters and my current ACRF w800... but that would probably cost a bit... (i'm thinking $100 - $200 ? .. i haven't priced anything.. so it's just a guess.)
If i could do this with $20 in parts and some soldering time for each of the three... it would be fun and not ding the WAF.
Just thought i'd pose the question... (and ramble a bit too... sorry)
Andrew
I dissassembled the gamepad... soldered wires to the pc board traces for digital(button) inputs... put in a box with external speaker/spring connectors...
I now have for under $10 bucks in parts and a couple hours of my time.. 11 digital inputs for H.S....
Thank you STIPUS
Question:
The gamepad also had 2 joysticks.. that reported 4 analog values to H.S... (x-axis y-axis and 2 * z-axis)
Looking at the circuit board... each seems to be just a potentiometer hooked to the joystick... (posed 90 degrees apart for the two axis per stick)..
I will eventually try to measure voltages and figure out what the POT value is...
But has anyone hacked a joystick to get external analog inputs into HomeSeer?
What i'd like is :
Ambient Light Outside.
Hot Tub Temperature
External Air Temperature
I can probably figure out how to make a variable resistance or variable voltage output for each of these...
And i can probably figure out how to get these into the analog joystick circuit...
But if someone has already done it... it would save me a good bit of work...
Anyone done anything similar?
I know i could do all of the above with some RFX transmitters and my current ACRF w800... but that would probably cost a bit... (i'm thinking $100 - $200 ? .. i haven't priced anything.. so it's just a guess.)
If i could do this with $20 in parts and some soldering time for each of the three... it would be fun and not ding the WAF.
Just thought i'd pose the question... (and ramble a bit too... sorry)
Andrew