Top 10 uses of HAH and future/wish list

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DoubleSpeed
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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I wanted to start a topic so that everyone tell us what you use HAH for what is/are the main/most common uses of HAH?

I got mine to monitor Solar output and my home electricity consumption with a view to maximising my use of free solar energy by controlling my immersion initially and more going forward.

It would be great to collate a top 10 / 20 list of uses that will inspire new users/members like me to give us something to strive for!

Please respond with you top 10 go for it…….
BoxingOrange
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Joined: 11 Jun 2010
I don't use mine for

I don't use mine for anything, it's just a great project and I've learnt a lot from it.  Having said that I do have a current cost hooked up, a couple of HAHNodes, which I've just setup to monitor movement in the house.  A friend got burgled recently and now my daughter can't sleep, so a quick script and demo showed her that if someone comes into the house at night the lights will turn on to wake us up :)  

I've had a Joggle for 12 months but not done anything with it, that's got hooked up this week.  

I've learn't a bit of Lua, C, Javascript, SVN, Linux and diplomacy, thanks Brett.

I've learn't about micro electronics, osilliscope, RF, 1-Wire, i2c (Why aren't more people using this??), thanks Derek.

I'm looking forward to getting my RasPi later this month and seeing what the future holds for the project.

I'd love PV, but can't see how it's affordable.

I love solving problems.

 

Perhaps not you typical top 10, but it's what I'm using mine for.

allanayr
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Ayr, United Kingdom
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DoubleSpeed
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Bristol, United Kingdom
Joined: 31 Mar 2012
'Top 10 list'
Thanks for that, I've seen that topic, actually now I think I should have used a different topic subject title I should have started it with 'Top 10 list' or something similar what I was really hoping for was a ranked list from everyone e.g....

Current usage

1. Monitor Solar
2. Control appliances i.e. turn on Immersion when solar at high output
3. Home security monitoring
4. etc
5. etc, etc


Planned for future

1. Wirelessly open and close garage door
2. whatever


Wish list of functionality

1. Communicate with the international space station
2. Teleport my kids to school and back via text sent to HAH
3. stuff like that


???
g7pkf
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United Kingdom
Joined: 11 Jan 2011
Think most things have been discussed at one point or another :)

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DoubleSpeed
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Bristol, United Kingdom
Joined: 31 Mar 2012
Yeah sure however it's really
Yeah sure however it's really not obvious you would probably need to read every topic and post in all the forums and try an piece it all together thought it would be useful to have it all in one place?
brett
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Providence, United States
Joined: 9 Jan 2010
Its funny but I don't have

Its funny but I don't have one at the moment - its on a boat.  :)

I did however port a large number of the programs over to my joggler which is running them very happily.  Its used daily to monitor the jeenodes around the house to check on temperatures esp. my daughters room and feed them to up pachube for remote monitoring too.

Brett

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