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Controlling appliances and lamps for very cheap

by on Feb.17, 2016, under Projects

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At the Hacklab, to save power, we needed a way to turn off devices when nobody was at the Lab.  Rather than buy expensive Insteon or Z-Wave modules, Hacklab member Av (that’s me!) reverse-engineered the radio protocol on these super cheap ($8 each) controllable outlet modules.

For a total cost of $47, you can now control 5 or more outlets via Wifi.  All that’s needed is an ESP8266 and a 433Mhz transmitter module.  No soldering or electronics is required, it’s just three wires!

Check out the rest of the project with source code on Av’s Site.


2 Comments for this entry

  • Larry

    Have you tried using the rc-switch library to figure out the codes (instead of a logic analyzer)? I’m interested in doing the same thing, but for a 315 Mhz outlet/remote combo.

  • av

    Hey wow, this looks like exactly what I did by hand. Might have made it easier, but certainly not more fun. :) Thanks for the tip!
    -av

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