Fecn
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Although I do bits of woodwork from time to time, woodworking is only one of my talents...
The woodworking for my sliding gate project ( https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/view ... iding+gate ) isn't totally finished yet - I've got to make and install some guard rails to close off the area where the gate opens and prevent the little 'un from wondering down there.
At the moment though, I'm off on a tangent with sorting out a decent remote control system for it. I use an open-source based phone system called asterisk in my office, and it's fairly easy to modify for automation purposes. I've assigned my gate it's own phone number - when I call the phone number, asterisk fires off a custom script I wrote which in turn sends commands to a little microcontroller based board (called a 'NetIOM XAP') which will in turn control the gate. In the past few days, I've modified a small switchmode power supply to give the voltage I need, built a simple float charger to keep the backup battery charged, and this weekend I'm hoping to get the battery, charger, NetIOM, relay board, and a powerline ethernet module all installed into an ABS enclosure and installed in the shed to control the gate.
I realise this is primarily a woodworking site... with forrays into other trades... Would people be interested to see my electronics and computing asides, so should I stick to just the wooden bits.
Cheers,
Fecn
The woodworking for my sliding gate project ( https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/view ... iding+gate ) isn't totally finished yet - I've got to make and install some guard rails to close off the area where the gate opens and prevent the little 'un from wondering down there.
At the moment though, I'm off on a tangent with sorting out a decent remote control system for it. I use an open-source based phone system called asterisk in my office, and it's fairly easy to modify for automation purposes. I've assigned my gate it's own phone number - when I call the phone number, asterisk fires off a custom script I wrote which in turn sends commands to a little microcontroller based board (called a 'NetIOM XAP') which will in turn control the gate. In the past few days, I've modified a small switchmode power supply to give the voltage I need, built a simple float charger to keep the backup battery charged, and this weekend I'm hoping to get the battery, charger, NetIOM, relay board, and a powerline ethernet module all installed into an ABS enclosure and installed in the shed to control the gate.
I realise this is primarily a woodworking site... with forrays into other trades... Would people be interested to see my electronics and computing asides, so should I stick to just the wooden bits.
Cheers,
Fecn
