![]() ![]() Mix in some imagination and determination, and you're all set! 433 MHz radio transmitter and receiver, IR transmitter and receiver, and some jump wires and resistors. Pebble, iPhone, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino. ![]() I ended up using the following devices and sensors for the Pebble remote. Infrared sensors and wireless communication between a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino became this projects biggest challenge, but the achievement was well worth it. ![]() Personally, I prefer to mostly use some of the stuff I have laying around and then include some new technology when starting a project. There are probably a myriad of different ways to turn a smartwatch into a remote control. So, why not use the Pebble to handle the interaction with the television? ![]() The Pebble is always with me, and it's always right there on my wrist. The ability to take a quick glance at my wrist instead of using my smartphone to check if it needs my attention immediately is priceless. I constantly receive e-mail and text message notifications throughout the day. I got a Pebble Steel last Christmas and it quickly became a part of my daily life. Why not take inspiration from this, and create something that could fit right into the next Bond movie? Agent 007 can use his cell phone to remotely control cars, take out bad guys with explosive pens, or even cut metal with a laser watch. The things he manages to do from various gadgets are always one step ahead of its time, and sometimes way into the future. James Bond was, and still is, one of my favorite fictional secret agents. Instead of buying a universal remote controller I decided to build my own. It results in a daily battle of finding the remotes, picking them up, and pressing some buttons on each of them, one at a time. My last project was therefore a dream come true when I used a smartwatch to control different devices in our home, including the television.Īt home we currently use at least three different remotes when watching television. As a software developer with an interest in robotics, the pleasure of creating and working with both software and hardware is indescribable. If it isn’t, then it won’t.I love playing around with new technologies. If my car is home, then it unlocks the door. So I wrote a program that looks for that tile to turn on… when it does it checks to see if my car is home. Extremely unlikely, but (remotely) possible. In the case of unlocking my side door it made me a little nervous to think that there is a website out there… granted a very obscure one, but none-the-less, if someone hits that endpoint with just the right letter/number combination it would unlike my side door. Along with the ability to run programs this way I can add a security layer as well. For example, Tile two might be the trigger for a program that turns on or off a group of lights or maybe starts a ‘timer’ program that turns something on and then off 30 minutes later.Ģa. Complexity: Right now at least you can’t tell a program to run via hitting endpoints, but if I’m firing at a virtual tile I can use that tile as a program trigger.With the virtual tile I just open up the Wireless 3-way app, deselect the laptop outlet, and select the Kitchen light. Not impossible, but certainly more complex then what I have to do right now: If I was pointing directly at my outlet, in order to change this I need would need to go back to the OAuth page, copy the link address, go to tasker, open the task and paste it in. But later I might decide I’d rather have it tied to the lights in the Kitchen. Flexibility: Right now I have Virtual Tile 3 tied (using the Wireless 3-way app) to an outlet that have my spare laptop power adapter plugged into. ![]()
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