Relay enclosure done right... kinda | Arduino Modbus Project | !Ai

I can't have relays deployed in a messy unorganised way. Hence why this exist. An enclosure that keeps me sane and the cabling down to the minimum. This is V1 with some usability mistakes that I will be addressing in V2. You learn every day, right?

[@cvabds]

Hi from Brazil

[@gebsystems]

Hello from sunny Poland.

[@wolfdakota9413]

you should switch the phase (brown wire), not the neutral(blue wire) :)

[@gebsystems]

That could potentially help... Ups 🤣

[@xmenxwk]

Why not buy smart socket, much better.

[@gebsystems]

I had a look at it now and you are correct. It is a much neater solution. However, I do not want something that will connect to my wireless network. I want my entire setup to be not relying on the internet at all. Second thing is that I want to control things via Modbus. Third thing is that I am enjoying the pain of putting this contraption together.

[@xmenxwk]

@@gebsystems The third point is how we all learn things but for first point, you dont have to connect to internet, you can get home assistant and run it locally. For second, I think you can hook up modbus to smart socket, you just need to add some components and own firmware which is quite easy. If you dont need rs485, then I'm sure there are some unused uC pins that can be used for small distance modbus.

[@gebsystems]

I really do not want to use home assistant as I want to build everything myself if I can help it. The goal is to buy as few off the shelf products as possible. So I am trying to keep it minimalistic. The smart socket would be totally a thing if I was doing it for someone else and they just need the super user friendly system to manage their home (thanks for that smart socket suggestion as it is about $6 here and I could use it for my parents house). I on the other hand do not care if there is no GUI to manage it. I am still far away from having a fully functional setup but I am slowly working through each obstacle one at a time. As you said I could just buy these products and just put it together in a day or two and be done with it.