The sample instructions on setting up HouseMon are OK for initial testing, but require a bit more work for a permanent installation. This post describes how I managed it.

Having got a room sensor up and running on the bench, I now want to log the values somewhere. I’m still searching for a Home Automation server that ticks all the boxes, so for now I’ll use HouseMon from Jeelabs. The birds-eye view of how it works is here, and the source can be found on GitHub here.

To create a room sensor node with the JNu, I’ve attached a AM2302 (also known as a DHT22) temperature and humidity sensor and modified the radio blip sketch to communicate with the sensor and return the data in the radio blip payload.

To make a room sensor I’m going to use a JeeNode Micro (JNu) reporting back to a JeeNode USB (JNUSB) running on my home server.

For this first post, I’ll intoduce the general themes of this blog and a little about myself.

So what sort of things will appear here? In no particular order:

• Hardware, usually microcrontrollers, e.g. AVR, Arm.
• Software, for the above hardware, but also PC based (Windows and Linux).
• Home Automation, hardware and software.
• Other random topics that take my fancy.