More Smart Home

Tonight (12/13), I'll again be bringing my Smart Home Demo Board to CDL. I'm still fighting with getting Ethernet 0 to lease an IP address (and fall back if it doesn't). Also the Bluetooth serial is driving me crazy! The raspi-config doesn't turn it off. It just enables the 'serial' port (which is Bluetooth). I'm now trying to decide if I can use the Bluetooth port as a serial port. I'll also bring the Sonoff ZigBee to WiFi bridge in hopes of installing the Tasmota firmware. And if I can find the dremel I might be able to cut some crude traces into a spare copper board for my EPS32 touch sensors. I have some on order but I'm interesting in how hard it is to make my won also. I do know about using chemical etch but I'm playing around with the dremel for quick and dirty prototyping. Just a learning experience. Let's face it it's almost as quick to order ready made or DIY a proto board and have it made by a PCB maker. Still good to know the levels of difficulty.

Rough start

So I took the demo board to Computer Deconstruction Lab (the CDL makerspace). While setting up the demo board my laptop had forgotten all it's WiFi settings. Which made the connectivity to the board difficult. I didn't have the default DHCP fallback address on the Ethernet yet. Also the serial console was still on Bluetooth and I've not tried that yet. So I have a little more work to do before my Trenton Computer Festival presentation. Of course that's one of the reasons I'm bringing it to CDL, so I can work the bugs out before the presentation. I didn't attempt to reprogram the Sonoff ZigBee Bridge. Seems I forgot about it. I'll try that at home some time this week.