BEAM prototype. Request to be a beta tester here.

[jitterjames]

A worker bee at Kalle-Labs, Germany.

[nime5ter]

+1.

Kalle, I am impressed by your sitting posture. Such a straight spine, even when you're looking down!

James usually looks more like this ...   

[jitterjames]

that looks how I feel too... 

[Kalle]

 

[jitterjames]

Hey James, I have this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DQELHBS?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00
but I dont really need all five, so I can send you two outlets and one remote control for your testings.

Wow.  Thanks Mexicanto.  I did not even know that they made 433Mhz devices for the North American market.  It's great to know aobut this. 

Thanks also for the generous offer but I found these on Amazon.ca and I just ordered some.  I don't need 5 either but I think it will be faster and by the time you pay to ship yours to me, with the possibility of extra charges for me at the border, it is just simpler this way.  I really appreciate your offer though!

[mexicanto]

Hi mexicanto, I'm not sure if Kalle mentioned it in the description of the BEAM, but there are basically two types of RF-Remotes/Outlets. The "old" ones, where you can choose the code via dip-switch or similar, and the "new" ones (like yours), where the outlets learn the codes from the remote. Currently it is probably not possible to learn codes or generate events from "new" remotes. But it is possible to let the "new" outlets learn a code from the BEAM. So you can use them with BEAM, but you can't use them with BEAM and the remote at the same time.

Thank you Dave, as soon as I have my BEAM, I will share my experiences.

[mexicanto]

A worker bee at Kalle-Labs, Germany.

I think one of these is all mine !!! 

I don't know about Kalle, but for me, soldering is therapeutic and relaxing, I can spend hours doing it.

[mexicanto]

Wow.  Thanks Mexicanto.  I did not even know that they made 433Mhz devices for the North American market.  It's great to know aobut this. 

Thanks also for the generous offer but I found these on Amazon.ca and I just ordered some.  I don't need 5 either but I think it will be faster and by the time you pay to ship yours to me, with the possibility of extra charges for me at the border, it is just simpler this way.  I really appreciate your offer though!

You are very welcome James,
Also, you can check if amazon.ca have this too:
http://www.amazon.com/SMAKN%C2%AE-433Mhz-Transmitter-Receiver-Arduino/dp/B00M2CUALS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456006276&sr=8-1&keywords=433mhz+arduino

I have a bunch of those, and also the 315Mhz version in case someone in north america need it.

[Kalle]

Hi Mexicanto,


Yes it can, but for 0805 SMDs and sot23 parts it can be a pain 

[jitterjames]

We have not been getting very good reception receiving Rf signals (poor range) with the super regenerative chips, especially when the RGB lights are illuminated.  We've got some super heterodyne chips on order and are hoping that they will work better.

[Foggy]

Hi Kalle & James.

Just thought I would let you know that I got my Beam today.

Connecting it to my network was a breeze using my iPad. Good job. Well done.

Thought that I had better wait till I got more instructions before I do anything else.

Best wishes.

James.

[Kalle]

Hi James,


sounds great and it looks like shipping to Great Britain is very fast. You can ask now what you want to know. 
It would be nice you can play with the IR/RF learn function on the UI-Learnpage.


If you want to let your BEAM light up in a color, type following in your browser: yourblasterIP/rgb/solid?r=0&g=0&b=100 to let the BEAM light up in blue. r=red, g=green, b=blue (you can use value from 0-255 for each color). If you learn RF or use RF events, set the RGB to off with yourblasterIP/rgb/solid?r=0&g=0&b=0 .

[jitterjames]

Wow.  That was fast.  I thought we had more time!

Today I just started to put together the first draft of the official documentation (English).  There is quite a bit of info in there but there is still a lot to do.  Have a look anyway.  Try not to be too confused by the formatting of the document which is still in flux.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_h8J3hiSCduLpWIIZWyfpDNk-VDpWx3LF35L9dVSCw/edit?usp=sharing

If you want to do a hangout at some point to chat and ask questions just let us know by PM and we'll set something up.

[Foggy]

Thank you both.

Tried the IR learn & send. This works very well.
Tried the RF version and it seems a bit picky and I had to try a few times before it would recognise anything. However once it did. It worked.

First impressions are that this better than my USB-UIRT. It maybe the funky lights though. 

Thank you James. I'll spend some time reading it before I ask any questions.

Best wishes.

[mexicanto]

Just to inform you, I got mine today !

Thank you

p.s. My BEAM came without the base, can you upload the .stl file to 3-d print mine ?