Lost my Omnistat Thermostats

[James Sentman]

The xBee radios also only go down to 1200 baud so you couldn't do one regardless of voltage level. You COULD use an arduino Fio or regular arduino with an xBee shield to transfer data between the xBee and then software serial it down to 300 baud on one of the Arduino outputs. Then you'd need to level shift it up to 5v for the thermostat. That could all be done ;) But you're getting into the realms of being more complicated than it's worth at that point ;) You can build your own arduino thermostat if you're really into it, I've been running one I built for 2 years now and all the bugs are non-house threatening ;) But I dont have a board for it, it's a bunch of separate pieces all wired together. Someday I'm going to do a board but not soon, too many other boards to finish first.


On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Jeff Wooding <jeff at qualitytubandtile.com> wrote:

> I'm using cat 5 over long distance would it be wise to double the wires by using both of the twisted wires per connection. Currently I'm using 4 wires for the serial connection and left the other 4 wires for 10/100 outlet @ the thermostat brains not in service yet.  (future expansion)
> 
> Can I push this data through a Xbee? I know it's ttl but is there a feasible way?
> 
> wiznet would not work no 300 baud rate. Is there a way to force that now?
> 

Thanks,
 	James


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