- Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:55 am
#57185
I'm a beginner level tinkerer (electronicswise). I find myself wanting to switch something across the room wirelessly. I have a spst contact here. There is a spst contact over there. I'd like to link them with RF.
First thing that comes to mind is the X-10 wireless wall switches and receivers off the shelf at Home Depot. It does the trick, but is expensive and I don't know how much hacking I'd have to do to simplify it to my needs.
Next thought is the junk garage door opener under my workbench. With a remote control in one hand I could remove the receiver from the board on the opener and... ok this is getting messy again.
Then I noticed the WRL-07813 and similar at the sparkfun store and wondered how easy it would be to set this up? Is it simply a matter of wiring the switch to two points on the xmitter board and then a relay to two points on the rcvr board - give power to both boards and away I go?
First thing that comes to mind is the X-10 wireless wall switches and receivers off the shelf at Home Depot. It does the trick, but is expensive and I don't know how much hacking I'd have to do to simplify it to my needs.
Next thought is the junk garage door opener under my workbench. With a remote control in one hand I could remove the receiver from the board on the opener and... ok this is getting messy again.
Then I noticed the WRL-07813 and similar at the sparkfun store and wondered how easy it would be to set this up? Is it simply a matter of wiring the switch to two points on the xmitter board and then a relay to two points on the rcvr board - give power to both boards and away I go?