The LightwaveRF Forum is dead. Long live the LightwaveRF Forum!
Time to come clean about why I’ve been so quiet of late. I’ve been busy! I’ve decided I needed a new pet project, so, bringing together my love of home automation and web development, I’ve built a new online community around the Lightwave RF product suite and taken over the unloved forum that was once the official LightwaveRF forum at lightwaverfforum.net. …
LED Lighting – Has it finally come of age?
I have been dabbling with LED lighting now for some time. This week, spurred on by a quidco offer to save 10% and get 10% cash back on my purchase, I bought some next generation LEDs from LED hut – a favourite online retailer of mine. With the next generation LED’s now hitting the market, has LED lighting finally come …
Blog Refreshed and Relocated
I have decided that my home broadband link is a little too slow to maintain a live blog on. I have decided to up sticks and host it at a commercial hosting company. I have chosen Tsohost, a UK based cloud hosting provider. At only £14.99 for a year’s hosting, it seemed a bit of a no-brainer to give them a …
First experiments with the Raspberry Pi and its GPIO outputs
I’ve completed my first experiment in building something physical with my new Raspberry Pi. It’s not overly useful, but I’ve built a binary counter using LEDs. The following video explains more… I originally started writing the code in Python. Mostly because many of the examples for controlling the Raspberry Pi are in Python, but having very little experience in Python …
Node 0
I spent a couple of hours in the loft at the weekend mounting my rack mount server (at last) and tidying up some cables. I thought this might be a good opportunity to talk a little about my ‘Node 0′. Located in the loft I have a 12U wall mounted rack. In this rack I have a 24 way patch …
Fourth LightwaveRF Dimmer and Good News on LEDs
#I have just fitted my fourth Lightwave RF dimmer. This time in the living room and on the same fitting as the one I have recently replaced with LED lamps. The dimmer works fine as I would expect and is actually much better than the home easy dimmer it replaced. The LED lamps dim much lower than they did with …