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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Home Automation Project #1 (Sprinklers)

Home Automation Project #1 (Sprinklers)

I finally got out of the apartment business and decided as my first project for "actual" home automation would be to get my sprinkler controlled by the Koyo DL06.  I know I wanted to be able to manually turn them on and have them on a schedule at the same time. 

Part 1:
using jQuery Mobile, Asp.net forms w/ C#, and a PLC I get to turn on my sprinklers on manually.  With html5 server side event pushing live updates every couple seconds to my web app.  Now when some unexpected victim walks near my front yard. ZAP! Squirt!!

Part 2 (4hrs later): After coding all day (at work hehe) I made it so i can access and change the scheduling of the sprinkling system. Changing the PLC's schedule based on the ladder program i built. works like a charm!