A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from a guy who rather stays anonymous, but had some really great additional/detailed information about the HRT4-ZW thermostat. There's some things I missed out,...

A few weeks ago I published the open-zwave Python wrapper. I basically started with a small wrapper suiting my personal needs. After a couple of days I was asked to share the code on Github. Until...

About one month ago I ordered a Horstmann HRT4-ZW thermostat. I came across this z-wave thermostat while I was surfing across the web. As far as I know this is the only EU thermostat available right...

This post continues upon the last Bus Pirate post. In that post I was able to read a register from a BMP085 pressure chip. In this post I will use the pyBusPirate python library to read the BMP085...

Today I received a package from Seeedstudio, containing some components and yes, also a bus pirate. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. Some information...

Having a Python module to control a z-wave network is great, but not really directly useful in practice. I can't imagine myself switching lamps on and off everyday using a Python script. However,...