Home Automation - Replace a dpdt switch with voice control

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jmrks
09-30-09, 05:58 AM
I have an electric gate that I presently use a DPDT center off toggle switch to control. I push the toggle one direction the gate travels that direction until I release the toggle or it hits the limit switch. The opposit directions of the toggle gets the same result to the home limit switch. I want to just say "open Gate" and the gate opens, "stop" and the gate stops, in either direction. If I say "close gate" and the gate closes. if I say open and never say close it opens to the outer limit and stops. If open, & I say close and it goes home to the limit unless I say stop. If I Say open then close it moves back and forth then goes home which was the last command. If I say "off" or "on" it does that untill the command is given to do other wise. So it obeys any of the five commands open, close,stop,off, on, in any position at anytime. I need a schematic I can build from. I can make the PC boards buy all IC'S Ect. can progran microcontroller just need a schematic with values. Any help out there?


Rick Johnston
10-01-09, 09:54 AM
Welcome to the forums. What a cool project!

Have you seen this web site (http://www.imagesco.com/articles/hm2007/SpeechRecognitionTutorial01.html)?

We had a whole-house system running in the late 1980's but it was done with an Apple ][e computer, several microphones connected to the computer via an outboard automixer, and a relay output board. We installed the prototype in a Parade of Homes in Tampa to try and sell it.

The big mistake we made was to incorporate a door lock for the front door. We had a mic at the door, and a maglock controlled by a relay. We'd trained the system to accept only demonstrators' voice commands, but it wasn't sophisticated enough to differentiate those waveforms from anyone else's.