Arduino Thermostat: Mounted
September 20, 2011 | In: Development, Home Improvement
Finished!
The arduino thermostat is now mounted on the wall and it looks great. The white paint was definitely a good choice as it matches the rest of the wall plates.
As far as I know (without testing my heat cycling code) everything functions well. The LCD backlight auto adjust is a nice touch, I’m really happy I threw in that extra dollar for the light sensor 😉
I do need to fix a few small things, the temp graph has a 1px line to the left and the temperature needs to be calibrated, but that will be easy now that I’ve cut a USB access hole so I can update the software without removing it from the wall.
Here’s pics of my progress this week – most of my time was spent on the electrical & drywall work. I did accidentally cut the hole too high (you can see why in one of the pictures below, the thermostat for the bedroom was in the way to mount this deep 4″ box) so I had to do some patch work… But it gave me a LOT more room to work and fish wires.
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