Arduino RIO

[Ingo]

All,

I thought I\'d share my little project with the community. For the last couple of months I fiddled with an interface between Arduino and Comfort for the purpose of interfacing to DS18B20 sensors. From the attachments you can see the little board I made that can take four sensors and connect directly to Comfort via the RS485 bus.

My \'Arduino RIO\' as I call it, plugs into an Arduino UNO and has a passthrough for a LCD Shield. The idea is to have status and some basic configuration on the LCD but have a proper ComfortClient Plugin that can configure the device as Comfigurator has no idea what the new device is.

Once this passes all my testing I will build a standalone unit the size of a real RIO board. For now the UNO connected device is perfect for me to do the software and firmware side of things.

Cheers,
Ingo

PS. I had a longish post all typed up but then my browser crashed and I ended up with a short and to the point one - sorry.

[Ingo]

Some more pics...

[Ingo]

One more of a RS232 Debug Console also created.

[Ingo]

And the LCD screen.

[juwi_uk]

Well done, first of hopefully many from startup \"Ingotronics\"!  Ã°Å¸Ëœâ€°

[slychiu]

Wow, when can I place my first order?

[kysmet4e]

This looks very good!

[juwi_uk]

I have one and it is great (see picture below) and can recommend.

I don\'t use the LCD shield on mine during normal operation as on the LCD unit I have you cant dim the brightness of the display and wow the blue is bright at night when the room is dark; so much so I think they can see from space!

Also be aware that the temp readings are reported with the precision shifted such that a reading of 1234 is actually 12.34; great for when you want temperatures to decimal places but make sure your receiving APP can divide the value by 100 to get the true reading.  I\'ve asked Ingo if we can have as a configurable setting in a future firmware so we can also read the straight rounded integer value like Comfort reports.

Great little unit though.

Ju

[Ingo]

Yea, that first one was the initial prototype and it evolved to this one you have now. Pitty there is no more room for features as the CPU has limited flash capacity. I am toying around with a 2.0 version that can expand a bit more on the software side but at this point it\'s a gaggle of wires all over my desk. The things we do for fun....

[juwi_uk]

You love it really,  don\'t try to resist it!