Movie Theater and Home Automation APP walkthrough

This is an App I created using Google App Inventor for Android, which communicates with an Arduino with ethernet shield.

The lights and AMP for speakers for outdoor is controlled by X10. The curtains uses an H-Bridge and a small motor from a small battery operated screw driver and pulley system. The HVAC is controlled using some Solid State Relays and a couple analog temperature sensors.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• theater
• movie
• arduino
• home
• automation
• control
• google
• android
• app

[vinhtvu2]

Sorry, I cant share the code for this yet, I'll have to clean it up some before I share it since a lot of stuff is hard coded and the App is custom design for my house and my needs. But I used Google App Inventor to write it, very simple.

[viniciusspolo]

How do you control de temperature in the ac?

Please make a blog with your project and share with us

[vinhtvu2]

@viniciusspolo

THe temperature is controlled using an Arduino, TWO 220V Solidstate Relay, and a couple temperature sensor. The arduino read in the temperature, check the high and low, and turn on the heat or AC appropriately.

[viniciusspolo]

@vinhtvu2 Clever. So You just turn on and off the AC. You dont set the temperature in the AC, right?

[vinhtvu2]

@viniciusspolo

The unit in the room is just a standard Window Unit, it does have a thermostat built into it if I want to use it, but I bypassed the thermostat in the unit, and wired the ON/OFF for AC and HEAT both directly to Solid State relays, and then use the Arduino to read the temp from sensors instead, so it actually get a better temperature reading for the whole room instead of just wherever the sensor for the thermostat is.

[bobcsv]

can i download somewhere the android code to see how it works? :D

very nice project!

[isamelbou]

well done man.You're good

[jiveap1414]

Dog at 0:50 is like "Where the sh!+ is that noise coming from?!"