jerlands Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 3 of 4 Leak Sensors now working. Interface with Insteon 2635-222 On/Off Module switching 12VDC to a piezio sounder. Placement through house and coverage underway. Steady On operation of sounder, even though I time it thru ISY, is a screamer. Would like to find 1 sec on, 1 sec off circuit to build or buy. Trying to get this implemented while considering the WAF. Thanks to all. You can write a program to do it. If leak sensor wet on Then Repeat 3 times on/off module on wait 1 sec on/off module off wait 1 sec Jon...
stusviews Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) Then statement(s) will turn on, wait a second, then turn on again and repeat unless you stop it. Then Repeat Every 1 second do what you want to do A BuzzLinc can be used as an audible alert. Edited February 11, 2016 by stusviews
jerlands Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 So you know.. there's a couple good leak sensor programs floating around. Jon...
larryllix Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) As Stu noted above a BuzzLinc is a much better idea. Blinking and Insteon device on and off every second for a long time will tie up your Insteon network badly and cripple ISY's seeing and controlling power. I bought a pulsing sonalert style beeper off eBay for a few bucks and hooked them to an I/O Link. It's loud enough I try to bury it behind some other junk in the room.. I created a series of programs from DefCon 1 to 5 that do various seriousness of beep and alerts, all based on one State variable. To make a few second beeping sound I use this line from any program. $sAlarm.level = 1 That's it. $sAlarm.level = 3 would also send me a text message explaining the problem. It would also send my wife a text message apologising. Edited February 11, 2016 by larryllix
Davonavo Posted February 15, 2016 Author Posted February 15, 2016 Looking for a sounder closer to the center of normal hearing range. Piezio buzzer is too high for me. The old X-10 ding dong was ok, except you grew to hate the melody it played. Could use a doorbell, but that would confuse the dog. A musical doorbell would be ok, but waking up to Hail, Hail, The Gangs All Here defeats the seriousness of the alarm. Something more 'Senior friendly.'
larryllix Posted February 15, 2016 Posted February 15, 2016 Nahhh... the doorbell is for the dryer finishing here. My piezo runs about 1-2 KHz and is intermittent, My ears are blind to over 8kHz and I have no problem hearing this anywhere in the house.
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