Not wanting to pay a monthly fee to have it setup, he decided to try interfacing an Arduino with the system ... project we shared on Hackaday a few years ago entitled Bending a Home Security ...

Arduino is a microcontroller used to control motors ... of I/O pins and no operating system, you may be tempted at first to pick a Raspberry Pi for your DIY project over an Arduino.

Touted as a greener residential heating system, they are rapidly ... few years working on his own Arduino Powered Open Source heat pump controller, and the project logs show some nice details ...