I'm still working on the source codes. They will be free for
They will be available to anyone free for non commercial use.
The code is mostly fragmented on all the projects, but will be released when available.
I was hoping to make these all community projects, and the only money
if any would be made by selling the PCB boards or kits.
Commercial vendors would have to licence the design.I'm hoping for a GNU type model.
Many of my devices were designed for practial use and some for fun (Snake, Owl, Zebra)
The Cricket was something I wanted to take commercial to compete with more expensive (and I wanted more control) commercial communicating thermostats like OmniStat, RCS & Aprilaire. But going commercial was going to cast $$$$$ so instead of putting it on shelf I'm making it open source for both the hardware including PCB layout
gotta learn Eagle and software. I belive a community effort will benifit everyone.
All the commercial thermostats were inflexable in design, some have bugs (
my Aprilaire is easy to lockup when communicating) so I went about designing my own. It's was originally much more complex and took many many different designs to get to the very simple one it is now.
Originally it included 6 relays to be like the Aprilaire, but I later split this into a seperate device the Ladybug.
So when the RS485 Cricket is combined with the Ladybug you have a 6 relay zoned system with RS232 control. You can add more Crickets, Ladybugs, Emu (designed for Curtain / Register control)
And control the whole thing from something as simple as a Rabbit
**broken link removed**
(I'm putting up
Hossenfeffer soon a Rabbit 37x0 to RS485 / RS232 MAX3160) or a windows or linux box) I have a 24/7 linux gateway running for music, web, email etc.
I'm more than happy to share the source code when available, I've only had my site up for a week and it's taken so much time just to get it looking right. Code snippits will be posted and daily updates will be posted (like
www.slimdevices.com does)