The Ben Heck Show - Automated SmartHome Tricks For Every Home
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2011
- Ben works on some ways to automate functions into an existing home. Automatic Door Buzzer? Coming right up! Ben also rigs up a system to manually change the temperature on an old Honeywell thermostat.
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He is the best! I got so many ideas watching him and learning from him. Just go on like this. Or get a prof at an technical university. A lot of young technicians would be happy ;)
Ben Heck is the best thing on youtube. This guy should have a million subs and be making some add money to help fund his projects. Keep up the bad ass vids, Ben.
When he went outside it hit me! Genius!!
This is the first video I have watched where I knew how to do something Ben was going over. I can port forward! Woo accomplishments!
a cluttered desk is the mark of a genius
Damn, you're my hero. This is why I study mechatronics...
Perhaps Ben Heck should make an automatic computerized professional digital VCR. I know this sounds like a suggestion Ben Heck should try, If done correctly.
I love how he's taped a take away menu to the wall next to his computer.
love your show! Congrats from Portugal
Dude, your seriously a genius.
Man, we in the coin op arcade game collecting community need to draft you!
The Cure - Cut. Ben, I love you.
Ben you make mondays AWESOME!
Indeed! Just pull the thermostat off the wall end controll the wires with a optocoupler. The thermostat is in your project allready...
0:50 dat green- screen- revealing hair XD
As far as how to drive the Honeywell AC / Heating unit, I was thinking you can pull the disc off of the front of the temperature selection unit and there is an elongated Woodruff key shaped entry that controls the potentiometer of the unit. If you can copy that female entryway shape via. 3D printer and create a male Woodruff key shaft you can use that to help the stepper motor drive the temperature control unit directly.
Those old thermostats are simple temperature controlled switches. The cover comes off very easily, exposing the wiring inside. He already has a temp sensor. All that is needed is a relay (or two, if you want both heat and AC) and you completely bypass the old thermostat. When you move, you disconnect your relay, restore the wires, and pop the cover back on, and it's as good as new (or old).
Actually, controlling the temperature is really simple. It’s like shorting- and opening the thermostat circuit, until the desirable temperature is reached (I figured out that this is even backwards compatible with new systems). Using a simple temperature-sensor schematic, you can create a brand new thermostat yourself (eventually including two buttons for manual editing). Adding a display too will be a good idea for another project. And trust me: I’ve seen doing you more destructive things ;)
If you do a revision of this device, may I suggest having the motor or a shaft horizontally centered in-front of the dial- a dime sized pad on the end of it with a sticky face pressed against the surface of the dial should rotate it without slipping or damaging the thermostat.
This is impossible i swear, he knows more than the internet about electronics and computers.
what's the tool used at 3:31? just a soldering iron attached to a desoldering pump? I'm always looking for easy ways to salvage components from old scrap electronics. Thanks!
Man, i wish i had your brain,.. the possibilities are endless...
Ben, on your show examples I see you using a laser router and a mechanical router, what model and brands are these? and what version of eagle do you use?
Use a small motor with a worm gear. Like the drive motor for the eye of a cd/dvd player, should already have the gear on it.
You can leave your controller near your computer room, but connect to your devices via wireless door bell. They are inexpensive wireless I/O switches ;)
@pleasureONstrings
if you can bolt the assembly into the wall, you can also pop a few screws and make a few connections :P
i think that i would be better if we could controll the termostat from the web, it's a lot better and energy saving if we send the order to the house while leaving work, or the restaurant or the park, basicly it's like it was demonstrated, without all the time checks and cycles.
I recomend you to use Altium designer instead, i'm in love with that program
Could you just connect a small motor directly to the dial shaft on the thermostat? you would have to mod the housing but it would eliminate the belt from slipping or falling off. You could hard wire a connection or hook it up to bluetooth or wireless. that way your home computer could control the temp.
You could also Mod it by connecting it to blue tooth but having the I/O switch from the gauge connect to the bluetooth. that would tell the computer what temp it is and enable it to control the A/C unit. You would have to ensure it does not turn off the compressor on the A/C unit or you may run the risk of damaging your A/C unit.
On the thermostat, I'd use a rubber band. Put a round, clear piece of plexi on thermostat dial, to keep rubber band from slipping off if it does.. like a spool Rubber band has tension and grip. If you take the dial off, isn't there a spinner knob behind it?
You could use PHP to check the IP that the connection is coming from, but a connection from a mobile device would probably not come from a consistent IP. You could also use PHP for a password that you need to enter before you can access the page.
you are one smart man
Are you using a static IP address? If not how do you connect to the server when not connected to your lan?
Front page?! Really Ben! You could have said anything else and my respect for you wouldn't have been diminished as it is now.
i wouldn't finish it with a belt because it would slip over time and loose "calibration". perhaps attach a gear to the t-stat wheel.
the next step could be an ordinary light control system, with display of the number of live lights or even notifications if we leve the house and leve the lights on.
the same can be applied to windows.
as @drederprops said, congrats from Portugal :P
Can we have some more of these please?
groovy dude..!
@TechGamer67 Good point but would the person who has the phone even know what house to go to, they just wouldn't know what it did or where to even start looking.
I can see where you are coming from, but its the same with what happens if someone took your house keys its no different except house keys are more easily linked to a house than a phone unless the home phone number is stored.
Hello ben, I want to live stream video from my camcorder which has an hdmi output. I need some sort of recorder such as the intensity shuttle to get the signal into my computer. I do not have a budget of 200 dollars. Do you know of any other way to do this, maybe using a rasberry pi?
hey ben i was wondering if you could kinda have a new viewer challenge i was thinking about taking a vhs player and turning if into an add on to a portable dvd player. just like have a place to put the vhs and use the headphone jack and video in to make the tape play on the portable dvd screen and another plug so it could run off the battery from the portable dvd player thanks for the help with this creative problem
what is the relation of that to the cd changer episode? i thought that it will get you drinks from your refrigerator. :)
you can use an htt|ps (the | is because youtube thinks it's a web address) connection with a login system of a forum to verify
you do have a valid point, but that would make it impossible to open the door for the mailman if he is at work. (I tought that that was the point)
@Maradons The idea is to make non-intrusive solutions, because the house is rented !!
cool !
you could hack into the termostate, and control it with the first assembly, or even make a new one, and controll everything with the server.
I know you're trying to fill time on the show but some basic research into HVAC systems will show you the regular systems use standard signals you could manipulate with relays. should have just wired in the microcontroller through relays and built an override controlled by the thermostat that was read by the controller. my $.02
Raa is that a valve oscilloscope at 11.31? Tektronix? hm
how did you get so hardware and software savvy? i want to be like you, able to mod things without instructions and without messing everything up. teach me the ways of the benheck
Why not make like a cover and the motor has a disk and the disk is having contact with the thing on the wall that change the temp (sorry for my bad english lol)
No, Ben is pretty funny all the time
I like that man !.....
what time is it there? I'm seeing a 5 o'clock shadow ben.
Ben, You should build a system like Bill Gates has in his house that plays music when somebody enters the room.
Wery useful! You can use your smartphone to open a door without keys!
How did you do that only you can acces your servers ip? I mean, everyone who knows your link could open your door?
is this on tv
make it controll the lights of your neighbours! LOL
@SimX9000
Yeah ,the ben heck show is awsome
@dmillen1029 im sure a large number of the programs he uses are windows based, hence windows.
Honestly, I like this intro more.
Why not a servo? Nvm...
You're awesome!
How much is it to join element14?
Free.
Ben, can you show a tutorial on how to hack Pentagon? thx!
well actually, you would have to be connected to his router to get access to the website that he set up on the spinnernet web server. He would have to port-forward it through the router if he wanted to access it from another network. Also setting up white listing for a website isn't really that hard.
2:55 why is one battery pink?
If you can light up an LED than you can do any thing!:D
Yes
cool
@befudge85 it's called WOL: Wake On Lan. And its much less complicated as you can do it with an app. Just google for 'wake on LAN app'.
good videos Ben, but what the heck? no schematics? resources? what shift registers did you use for the door opener, come on man
@SimX9000 do u think ben can make in invention take would allows
us to exchange brains for a year
do something with a go-pro pls .....like a mod or something ?
i know this was made in 2011, but just get a NEST. it's compatible with your thermostat, it's dosen't require a permanent install, and it works way better than your system (no offense, but it's true)
A lot of people do electronic hacks like these for the novelty of designing it yourself. Sure it's probably more pragmatic to buy a machine designed for the purpose, but there's a certain amount of fun and pride in creating what you use.
built, not bought.
cool man i love watching this stuff but didn't know about nest til now way more on my level
My home has that auto temp control thing, and it was built in 1929...
@stickyvideos1 no need to steal the phone, just learn his IP at 18:34, though i'm sure he doesn't really use that port any more.. :)
cool i think
Smart home be nice to have...
true
Does this episode has something regarding the pinball? #EvilTag
my brain hurts
How did the cameraman at 9:59 not laugh?
Because he's a sane human being
keykjokey Then the cameraman must be German.
only Germans are sane human beings?
keykjokey Germans seem to have their own sense of humor that is different from all other countries.
Its Alyson a Woman not a man...
I don;t think PHP will be usefull on Parallax Propeller.
It is his sister look at the old intro
Option 1:
-Learn loads of programming languages
-Learn electronics
-Buy the right equipment
-Replace your heat system with an old rotator like that
-Get an Apple developer license for Iphone (200$ a year)
-Get an Iphone (400$)
-Get a macbook to build the app (1200$)
-Dont mess it up or youll die of heat or freeze to death
Option 2:
-Install a tiny bit of Domotica (100-200$)
Yep,
He didn't need to make an app... and it was Android anyway. All the coding was I2C and HTML, so it was relatively easy, and 100% free for the programming.
If you don't port forward, then nobody could connect. The only downside is that you need to be connected to your internet to do it.
Should make a cog wheel with 3d printer
Does he have a wisp on the side of his computer?
mannnn that is nice..hahaha coooooooooooool
if someone learns the url to your door opener they can break in
is there not a need for a password on the web interface otherwise theoretically anyone who gets your ip address can get in
You can have some of my hair.
Who noticed the Apple II at 9:46-9:59
You could use a dynamic DNS provider like dyndns[dot]com.
10:00 what if it didnt work? YOU WOULD BE LOCKED OUT
+ncamen68 Well what if your car battery dies? What if you lose your key? What if I drop my phone? People rely on these kinda things all the time just make back ups.
first and watchin it in 480p ahhh the life....
i want to be like you.
BEN HECK
May we see the camera man?
Previously on The Ben Heck Show:
Ben: I made an auto game changer. Now I can play without leaving the couch! *tries to drink beer but bottle is empty, and thus needs to leave the couch to get some more* Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!