Great idea well done! How about another detection module?

[whiteduck22]

I have a driveway alarm from Hosmart which seems to work pretty well and not too many false alarms (until spiders take a liking to it). I've tried using SDR to pick up the wireless signal but it's not simple to decode so I wonder if you could provide an alternative module for input in the form of a light sensor so we can detect when an LED lights up on the Hosmart receiver indicating motion detected... presumably this wouldn't need much of a modification to code or the GPIO config?

With this in mind you could make your rpi-appliance-monitor modular:

• vibration (done!)
• LED on/off/specific colour (useful for indicating appliance fault too)
• noise detection (perhaps detect frequency to determine if human / animal / vehicle)
• light intensity
• pollution

Just a thought?

Thanks Ian

[whiteduck22]

Teach me to jump straight into issue raising - I see a couple of other issues mentions this... sorry

[Shmoopty]

I think those ideas are great! Do you have any Python experience? You can see that many people have contributed new ideas to this project.

[whiteduck22]

@Shmoopty - no my programming skills are limited to shell script :-) - let's see if anyone else wishes to have a go... from an electronics point of view this should be possible to use a digital LDR module right as per another issue logged?

[Shmoopty]

It's absolutely possible.