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- TomDunlap made the instructable Circuit Triggers Internet ActionView Instructable »
I wanted a way to be notified when there was snail mail in the box which is on the street about 150ft from my door. I put a magnetic reed switch on the mailbox door and wired it in parallel with the push button. Works great so far. Planning to add a solar panel to keep the battery charged. and clean up the installation.Thanks for a fun project and solution to my problem.
- TomDunlap completed the lessons Circuit Displays Internet Data and Internet of Things Class in the class Internet of Things Class
- TomDunlap completed the lessons Circuit Triggers Internet Action, Hardware Setup, Combining Inputs and Outputs and Software Setup in the class Internet of Things Class
- TomDunlap completed the lesson Gather Your (Internet Of) Things in the class Internet of Things Class
- TomDunlap commented on Ido Ran's instructable Finding Lychee - Dog GPS Offline TrackerView Instructable »
Yes, that confirms what I thought. I removed the time two bytes and set the record time for 15 second interval. That seems to give me 4000 records in 8 hours. 4 batteries should last that long. Thanks again for this fun and educational project.
- TomDunlap commented on Ido Ran's instructable Finding Lychee - Dog GPS Offline TrackerView Instructable »
I meant to ask you about that storage issue. Do you have any idea how many records can be saved? And if you don't save the time value, does that get you more records. I really haven't tried to look into this myself yet. I do have a nice case to hold the device and a way to mount it on the harness so I'll be trying it on Scout soon.
- TomDunlap made the instructable Finding Lychee - Dog GPS Offline TrackerView Instructable »
Been having some fun testing this device. Haven't yet put it on scout, but it works quite well walking around the property. I changed the code to put out more Google Earth friendly data. void execute_command_export(){ int itemsCount = 0; read_int(0, itemsCount); Serial.print("read itemsCount="); Serial.println(itemsCount); Serial.print("Latitude,Longitude,LineStringColor,Icon,IconColor,IconHeading"); struct LocationItem loc; for (int index = 0; index < itemsCount; index++) { read_location_item(index, loc); print_location_item(loc); } }void print_location_item(const struct LocationItem &v){ Serial.print(v.lat, 6); Serial.print(","); Serial.print(v.lng, 6); Serial.print(",cyan,none,yellow,line-180"); // See …
see more » - TomDunlap commented on Ido Ran's instructable Finding Lychee - Dog GPS Offline TrackerView Instructable »
I think I see the problem. Your BOM calls for a 2 AA battery box. That's only 3vdc. In your wiring list all the VCC inputs are 5vdc. I rewired it to use a 4 AA box and took the 3v from the Nano to run the GPS. The data looks good now.
- TomDunlap made the instructable Finding Lychee - Dog GPS Offline TrackerView Instructable »
Completed the breadboard. Everything sees to work. Not real impressed with the accuracy so far. How to know when it's actually recording? I turned it on and went to the store with it. Got back and had no data at all. It looks like it's not recording on battery, only on USB power.
- TomDunlap made the instructable Finding Lychee - Dog GPS Offline TrackerView Instructable »
Fun Project. I was looking for this because our dog Scout just hates being confined to the 45 fenced acres and prefers to roam the thousands of forest acres around us. Occasionally he's gone over night and we want to see where he goes and exactly where he gets out of the fence. So far I've got the Nano and the GPS talking and waiting for the EEPROM to get here from China, this week I hope. Looking forward to trying the real-time version. Thanks.
- TomDunlap completed the lesson Welcome to Arduino in the class Arduino Class
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- TomDunlap commented on fiveseven808's instructable Amazon Dash Button HackView Instructable »
Guess I'll have to figure out how to do that as an option. I think I'm close to getting "scapy" installed so I can have a bit more control. I wouldn't mind seeing the AmazonButton_v2.exe code. Is that available somewhere?
- TomDunlap commented on fiveseven808's instructable Amazon Dash Button HackView Instructable »
Well, it worked until my GF showed up and connected her iPhone and iPad to my WiFi. That changed the IP addresses. I need to be able to use MAC addresses to identify the button. The code I've seen so far use Scrapy or scapy* and I haven't been able to get that installed on my Win10 machine. *No idea what the difference is.
- TomDunlap commented on fiveseven808's instructable Amazon Dash Button HackView Instructable »
It works!
- TomDunlap commented on fiveseven808's instructable Amazon Dash Button Hack
Sure, it's 192.168.xxx.xxx
View Instructable »The only problem with that Python code in the link is that I could never get "scapy" to work. I may give it another try though.
- TomDunlap commented on fiveseven808's instructable Amazon Dash Button HackView Instructable »
Finally got it! Never did get AmazonButton_Discovery.exe to work but I used Who Is On My WiFi to get the IP for the button. Then AmazonButton_v2 works fine. I used it to execute a Python script, Send_Text.py to send me a Text. Here's the script:import smtplibserver = smtplib.SMTP( "smtp.gmail.com", 587 )server.ehlo()server.starttls()server.login( 'TomDunlap@xMail.com', 'mailpass' )server.sendmail( '<Tom>', '<**********@vtext.com>', 'You have Snail-Mail in the box' )Now I just have to build the circuit and install it on my mailbox.Looking at this way: http://imgur.com/a/Xz9Iu