It's been a while since anything happened on the Chauffeino front. Time for a little update. I announced this project back in April 2013, and until a couple of weeks ago, my latest GitHub commit dated back to March 2014. So clearly, not a lot of work was done on this front. The reasons are the same as everyone else's: it's my project, I work on it when I feel like it, and the same goes for the other three gazillion projects I'm currently neglecting. That and well, I tend to see things big. Which means I was getting too bogged down in the list of features I wanted to support, without actually ever getting around to implementing any of them because this one "crucial" feature was blocking progress.
So it was clearly time to change my approach: start small, and build gradually. The new plan is to just start by replacing the current wired thermostat with a wireless one, and have the host computer trigger the appropriate relays. The rest of the features will get added as we go.
With a smaller scope, I started toying around with it again, and I'm proud to say that we have contact:
