Arduino Sensor Plugin

The Arduino sensor plugin allows you to build your own cheap wireless sensors [for less than $10} and communicate with them wirelessly. Using Nordic Semiconductors transceiver rf2401. See separate pages for how to hook up it to your Arduino. The plugin automatically creates the sensor devices it finds on the radio network.

Link Arduino to company page ​http://arduino.cc
Relevant forum thread ​http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,16170.msg123378.html

Author

Henrik Ekblad - henrik.ekblad at gmail.com (hek on forum)

Installing and using the plugin

From apps.mios.com

​https://apps.mios.com/plugin.php?id=xxxx

Remember to set the serial usb port used by connected Nano board.

From downloaded source

Arduino Sketches

A sketch is a small programs that you download to the Arduino boards. To get started download Arduino SDK here:

​http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Install all arduino libraries found here: http://code.mios.com/trac/mios_arduino-sensor/browser/trunk/Arduino/libraries

ArduinoGateway

Acts as a link between Vera and your wireless sensors. This sketch should be downloaded to an Arduino Nano which then is connected to your Vera using a usb cable. It is important to use a Nano board for the ArduinoGateway as it contains a serial usb chipset recognized directly by Vera (the Uno does not!).

DallasTemperatureSensor

This is an example sensor sketch that sends in temperature information and presents it as temperature devices in Vera.