CH340G Serial to USB Bridge Driver

2015-04-26 10:27
Category: Home Automation
Tags: USB 2 Serial

• Win 8 / 8.1: http://www.arduined.eu/ch340-windows-8-driver-download/ (or local mirror)
• Win 7: http://www.arduined.eu/ch340g-converter-windows-7-driver-download/ (or local mirror)
• Linux: The driver is called ch341 and it is part of the Linux kernel: drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c
  • OpenWrt: opkg install kmod-usb-serial-ch341

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Measuring and Logging the Outside Temperature (and Humidity) with FHEM

2015-01-06 21:05
Category: Home Automation
Tags: FHEM

I bought the TFA 30.3155 (9.579 kbps).

JeeLink

• JeeNode USB
• Bulding a JeeLink yourself (German)
• RFM12B Connection to 5V Arduino
• JeeLink on FHEM Wiki
• JeeLib for Arduino IDE: Ports, RF12, and RF69 drivers from JeeLabs
• Design file: 36_LaCrosse-LaCrosseITPlusReader.zip from FHEM's Arduino code
• FHEM commandref for JeeLink.
• How a RFM12...

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Installing FHEM on Arch Linux (ARM) – On a UDOO in my case

2015-01-06 15:47
Category: Home Automation
Tags: Arch Linux ARM, FHEM, UDOO

Here are the steps required to install FHEM on Arch Linux:

# We start by updating our system first:
pacman -Syyu
# We install 'make':
pacman -S make
# Now we create the user / group:  fhem / fhem
groupadd fhem
useradd \
  --system \
  --create-home...

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