Flavius Cristiu

Because the Avalon project is more stable I bought more DHT22 sensors for a complete monitoring system. Now I can see the temperatures in three rooms and outside.

Also, I integrated the Openhab2 into my project. That allows me to see system's parameters remote everywhere where is an Internet connection.

I intened to mount a security cam to monitorize the main gate of my house. (it's not implemented yet)

Also, another future plan is to add a sensor for my main gate status, open or closed. (it's not implemented yet)

Custom voice notifications are now available - week 3/2019 - this voice notifications uses TTS engine available in English only and notifies me for events.

The project goes on MQTT much more stable, customizable and faster than TCP client-server/java-python protocol (I struggled month for error control, too much effort for such small good results)

Eveything has started long time ego when I saw a movie called IT. That movie's inspired me and from that time I started to think about the endless possibilities of controling and monitoring my home.

A great inspiration for my work was the hackster website, discovered by chance, where I was amazed how many similar projects already are build.

Right after a few days I saw the movies "Passangers" that inspired me more and where I took the name of the project from: AVALON

The Avalon project has started with a simple DHT22 sensor for temperature and humidity, a raspberry PI version 2 and a basic launcher app coded in java for android.

It's main purpose was to show the temperature and the humidity in my room. Simple.

At that time I use my 7inch tablet as my main (and only) display panel

In a few days, being inspired by the same IT movie where I saw a control panel for smarthome, I developed for my android tablet launcher its own daydream service featuring a spinning logo avoiding to have a permanent black screen on all day charging tablet, a very simple custom feature that shown me the time.