What and how to smart home your pool?

[NilkOne]

Hello,

We will soon start the construction of a swimming pool, and I wonder what is interesting to automate and how?

The equipment of the technical room will be as follows:

• a 0.75HP pump
• a sand filter
• an LED lamp
• a pH regulator with pH probe
• a salt electrolyzer with built-in probe
• the cover will probably be a bar cover in the first place, then a sliding telescopic pool cover in the long term

In terms of home automation technology, I use Zigbee with a Zigate (which I am disappointed with), I want solutions WITHOUT WiFi, and WITHOUT cloud, ideally plug and play (no electronic board to solder and program).
Of course, all within a reasonable budget

Here is a list of home automation ideas, which ones are essential and which are superfluous in your opinion, do not hesitate to share your ideas as well

• pH measurement
• pH regulation
• measurement of the pressure of the sand filter
• measurement of the water temperature
• control on/off of the pump depending on the water temperature, and the air temperature in winter for frost protection
• control on/off of the 12V LED light
• level sensor of the pH- container?
• should the electrolyzer be automated, is it useful?
• measurement of the oxidation-reduction rate, is it useful?

How would you automate these parts? with which equipment? where to place them?

@Reno, @Terdious, @Gardaux: I am asking you knowing that you have pools

[Terdious]

Hello @NilkOne!!

Great project in progress!! For the following two points:

@NilkOne

• water temperature measurement
• on/off control of the pump depending on the water temperature, and the air temperature in winter for frost protection

I use the Sonoff TH16 and it does the job very well with Tasmota flashed on it.
For pH measurement, unfortunately I haven’t found anything low-cost yet. At domadoo, there is the REDOX MEASUREMENT PROBE FOR X200PH EXTENSION MODULE to be coupled with X200PH EXTENSION MODULE and with IPX800 V4 …

This comes to approximately €250… Well, it is capable of doing other things at this price but it’s expensive.

If it interests you, I think @cce66 has made a tutorial to link the IPX800V5 with Gladys via NodeRed.

Good luck with your project and I will be interested in following your progress!!

Edit: I found the tutorial again

Mini Tuto - Interaction Gladys - IPX800V5 via node-red

Le but de ce tuto est de montrer comment piloter des relais de la plate-forme domotique IPX800V5 de GCE avec Gladys Allez dans l’onglet « Système » [image] Cliquez sur « MQTT » [image] Paramétrez comme suit, avec pour « Serveur: " l’ip du broker mosquito (IP du raspberry ou du Nuc sur lequel est installé Gladys, en « Client ID » le nom que vous voudrez (j’ai mis ici IPX800V5 c’est important pour les paramétrage des Topic dans Node-red) [image] Ensuite on va dans l’onglet « Liens » [image…

[NilkOne]

@Terdious: interesting

Where did you place the probe, and how did you do it?

Did you drill into an interior rigid PVC pipe in the technical room? If so, where? (before the pump or elsewhere) And what did you use to insert the probe into the pipe?

[guim31]

I’m taking the liberty of asking here, as I now have a swimming pool and I’m interested in this topic.

I wanted to know if there are any submerged lighting solutions (to illuminate the bottom of the pool) that are compatible with Zigbee? I found quite a few references that work with multicolored remote controls, etc., but nothing that can be integrated into home automation.

[cce66]

Hello @NilkOne
FYI, in the meantime GCE has released an X-Pool module that could do the job X-Pool Connect – Gestion domotique piscine autonome | GCE Electronics it can connect to the IPX800V5 so it can be controlled from Gladys and Node-RED via the tutorial above, it’s an excellent product but I think it’s missing some things that Gladys can provide