LMIC ESP8266 Hardware Motor and Safety Circuit Test

The LMIC board contains principally a L6205 DMOS Full Bridge DC Motor Driver and Hardware Safety Circuit, controlled from an ESP8266. The Hardware Safety Circuit on the LMIC board, continually monitoring the L6205 for an over-load (Linear Motor Jam for example) , shorted output, thermal trip, cross conduction protection, voltage lockout.  Upon a fault, the […]

CWX ESP8266 BME280 v2 – Specification

CWX 2 –  Compact Weather Station IoT Home Automation   This CWX-2, Compact Weather Station for IoT Home Automation, is great for either indoor and outdoor use. Designed to be battery powered, via a standard CR123A Lithium Battery, or from an external DC supply. Allows remote sensing and sending data over Wi-Fi, such as to […]

CMIS ESP32 SDK v1 – Specification

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board is designed to monitor four fully isolated DC currents up to 100A. An I2C reversible 2.54mm header is provided in the middle of the board, which will allow an OLED display (such as a SSD1306 I2C), to be […]

CMIS-1 ESP32 Additional ADC Advanced Functions

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and uses the internal ADC for reading sensor values. Other useful advanced ESP32 ADC functions for future experimenting are: analogReadResolution(resolution): set the sample bits and resolution. It can be a value between 9 (0 – 511) and 12 bits (0 – […]

CMIS-1 Test Code Calibrate DC SensorZeroVoltage

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board has four AC/DC ACS758 100A (ACS758LCB-100B-PFF-T), Hall Effect based, Linear Current Sensors. These bi-directional current sensors will read +/- 100A and have a sensitivity of typically 20mV/A.   The example code below will enable you to calibrate the […]

CMIS-1 Test Code DC Current with OLED Display

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board has four AC/DC ACS758 100A (ACS758LCB-100B-PFF-T), Hall Effect based, Linear Current Sensors. These bi-directional current sensors will read +/- 100A and have a sensitivity of typically 20mV/A.   The example code below will measure a low voltage DC […]

CMIS-1 Test Code CT Clamp with OLED Display

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board has a CT Clamp Input. The example code will read a voltage from the CT Current Clamp (or Current Transformer), and output to the OLED Display.  Each loop the RED LED will flash. Note, depending on your CT […]

CMIS-1 Test Code CT Clamp

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board has a CT Clamp Input. The example code will read a voltage from the CT Current Clamp (or Current Transformer), and output to the serial monitor.  Each loop the RED LED will flash.  If a value is read, […]

EMIS-1 Test Code Relay

EMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board has a small relay in order to provide an isolated output. The relay is rated at 2A and 30V DC.    

CMIS-1 Test Code OLED

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board has an I2C header designed for easy OLED connection. Displays random number between 0 and 99 and updates battery percentage.  Heartbeat RED LED flashes each loop cycle. You will need to select your OLED Display.  Uncomment/Comment as needed. // […]

EMIS-1 Test Code OLED

EMIS (Energy Monitoring IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM and the board has an I2C header designed for easy OLED connection. Displays random number between 0 and 99 and updates battery percentage.  Heartbeat RED LED flashes each loop cycle. You will need to select your OLED Display.  Uncomment/Comment as needed. […]

EMIS-1 Test Code Wifi

EMIS (Energy Monitoring IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM, which incorporated 2.4GHz Wireless. This code simply communicates with the 2.4GHz Wireless and scans for available Access Point or Router networks. Example Arduino code below.

CMIS-1 Test Code Wifi

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit is based on an Espressif ESP32 WROOM, which incorporated 2.4GHz Wireless. This code simply communicates with the 2.4GHz Wireless and scans for available Access Point or Router networks. Example Arduino code below.  

EMIS-1 Test Code RGB LED

EMIS (Energy Monitoring IoT Sensors), SDK Kit contains an RGB LED.  This basic code is used to test the RGB LED. RED LED is on GPIO 2 Green LED is on GPIO 4 Blue LED is on GPIO 15 The separate POWER LED is RED and is always on. Note that in the default state, […]

CMIS-1 Test Code RGB LED

CMIS (Current Monitor IoT Sensors), SDK Kit contains an RGB LED.  This basic code is used to test the RGB LED. RED LED is on GPIO 2 Green LED is on GPIO 4 Blue LED is on GPIO 15 The separate POWER LED is RED and is always on. Note that in the default state, […]

CWX Sensor Module BME280

The CWX uses a BME280 High Precision Temperature, Humidity and Barometric Pressure Sensor.  This digital sensor module being contained on it’s own PCB and interfaces to the standard I2C bus, such as used on most microcontrollers such as ESP8266 series, Arduino boards, Raspberry PI etc. This BME280 module is factory calibrated to provide a high […]

RMIS-1 Example Code Solar Wind Battery Monitor

The below RMIS-1 test code example has been provided as a means to learn, develop and evolve.  The purpose of this test code is to cycle through the various main functions of the board as part of bring up testing. This example code has been developed for a test Solar/Wind/Battery/UPS project – which is very […]

RMIS-1 Connections and Interfacing

RMIS (Remote Monitoring IoT System), includes the following connections: PCB DC input (10v to 15v).  15V MAX UART for Flashing code or external board monitoring & control via serial I2C Expansion Interface, for adding other devices Current and Voltage Monitoring (4 Channels – High Side Sensing) Notes: The Current Channel connectors are quality 5mm spacing, […]

CWX-1 Basic Bring Up Code – MQTT

This CWX-1 Basic Bring Up Code (ThingSpeak), Wiki page, provides basic information to connect your computer to the CWX-1 and then flash some sample code which will read the sensors and update to Domoticz via MQTT.   Overview The CWX 1 –  STEM SDK IoT (Compact Weather Station), contains a compact BME280 sensor which provides […]

CWX-1 Basic Bring Up Test Code

This CWX-1 Basic Bring Up Test Code Wiki page, provides basic information to connect your computer to the CWX-1 and then flash some sample code which will read the sensors and update to ThingSpeak.   Overview The CWX 1 –  STEM SDK IoT (Compact Weather Station), contains a compact BME280 sensor which provides three readings, […]

CWX-1 External DS18B20 Temperature Sensor

The CWX 1 –  STEM SDK IoT (Compact Weather Station),, includes on-board digital temperature sensor, however it would be great to also add an external temperature sensor, such on a greenhouse or room. Using the I2C connector and sharing the I2C bus, it is very easy to add one to test, or more, one-wire digital […]

RMIS-1 External DS18B20 Temperature Sensor

RMIS (Remote Monitoring IoT System), includes on-board digital temperature sensor, MCP9808 (located next to the ACS712 current monitors).  However it would be great to also add an external temperature sensor, such on a battery or heatsink. Using the I2C connector and sharing the I2C bus, it is very easy to add one to test, or […]

RMIS-1 Power Calculations Guide – Voltages and Current

RMIS (Remote Monitoring IoT System) features four independent and isolated channels, each of which can monitor both DC voltage and current. When all four input channels are used, it would result in eight readings (4 x current and 4 x voltages), being provided in real-time.  The current measured is also positive and negative, so RMIS […]

CWX-1 Basic Bring Up Code – ThingSpeak

This CWX-1 Basic Bring Up Code (ThingSpeak), Wiki page, provides basic information to connect your computer to the CWX-1 and then flash some sample code which will read the sensors and update to ThingSpeak.   Overview The CWX 1 –  STEM SDK IoT (Compact Weather Station), contains a compact BME280 sensor which provides three readings, […]

VDAS Kit v1.2 – Specification

VDAS (Video Detect and Audio Squelch), is a small board (Size 45mm x 20mm x 5mm – excluding BNC), that detects video sync (taken from an ATV receiver for example), and then provides a couple of digital outputs depending on the video state.  This was previously shown under HAMKit brand.         This […]

VMAC PiHat v3 – Specification

VMAC PiHat (Video Matrix Audio Controller) This is a new project (Feb 2022) – details to follow and was previously shown under HAMKit brand.                         The VMAC PiHat is an updated version featuring FOUR A/V inputs and ONE A/V output, complete with OSD (On Screen […]

CWX 12S SDK v1 – Specification

CWX 1 –  STEM SDK IoT (Compact Weather Station IoT Home Automation)   Powered by a single CR123 Lithium battery, this STEM SDK is a Compact Weather Station for IoT Home Automation.     An example of the output can be seen here  as highlighted below. Based on the industry standard ESP8266 (ESP-12S Series), the […]

RMIS 12S SDK v1 – Specification

RMIS (Remote Monitoring IoT System) Ideal for remote monitoring DC Voltage and Current of: Green Energy Systems Renewable Energy Systems Batteries Solar Panels Wind Generators Hydro Power Generators Rain Gutter Power Generators Thermoelectric Power Generator Water Tower Power Generators Turbines This exciting new RMIS-1 – STEM SDK kit was originally designed for the GB3FW repeater site […]

WREN S2 DE SDK – Sample Code Introduction

From a base point, WREN S2 DE SDK is based on Open Source, Espressif ESP32-S2 and available to the Developer Community. Using the standard Arduino IDE, or Platform IO, for example, you will be able to derive and develop code that will enable a basic WREN S2 DE SDK  board bring-up and test the various […]

WREN S2 DE SDK – Technical Information

The new DitroniX WREN is both a Consumer Product, and also a Developers SDK.  It has been designed to easily, and safely, retrofit to industry standard Electric Reclining Chairs. WREN could also be used for a range of other DC controlled applications. A detailed comparison table is provided here The principle function of the DitroniX […]