Production ready Internet of Things (IoT) open source hardware and software platform with WiFI and GPRS/3G/LTE connectivity, Arduino compatible FreeRTOS Particle.io chip.
Fully loaded with common use sensors and actuators.
Multiple communication channels: WiFI, USB serial, TTL serial, RS485 serial.
Ready made firmware with Web and Mobile user interface for out-of-the box operation, no coding necessary to start, just power on, connect to WiFI and open the Web and Mobile interface to play and control the world.
Secure cloud communication for everyday operations and OTA firmware updates.
This interface is fully customizable. You can operate in the firmware to define witch information are presented in the interface, and in the HTML/JS part as well.
You can have an example of working web responsive interface at this url: https://rotilio.cc
If you want to learn about Particle.io API and Javascript with a simple but complete example with no third-party library head up to: https://rotilio.cc/example.
- Standard Arduino compatible
- FreeRTOS based
- OTA firmware update via cloud
- HTTPs Restful Cloud API
- Automatic application interface configuration
Automatic application interface configuration, a technology developed by us for Rotilio, lets you define an interface configuration for every device with different firmware using only one generic user interface. You don't need to develop a different app for for every different project.
Ready to use, open source Web and Mobile user interface. You can use our hosted Web App or donwload and customize the code here.
- HTML5+CSS+JS with AngularJS, Twitter Bootstrap, ChartJs
- PhoneGap ready
- User authentication
- Fully customizable
Basically Rotilio can expose variables like temperature, umidity,pressure, light and send events on changes of these and other variables. Rotilio can receive instructions to switch on the relais, the buzzer, the RGB led and so on.
For standard operation you don't need to manage code, https calls and security but you may want customize Rotilio, so let's make some http restful examples.
(For full documentation about Particle.io Cloud API see https://docs.particle.io/guide/getting-started/intro/photon/)
For security sake, to post a cloud API call you need an Access Token like this a8e5239db48cdd43165abf879fcd7f43280cd874.
You can obtain the access token from the Rotilio user interface, look at the url after login.
the variable name is stats, the device id is 30001c000647343232363230.
https://api.particle.io/v1/devices/30001c000647343232363230/stats?access_token=a8e5239db48cdd43165abf879fcd7f43280cd874
the command is message, the message argument is setrelais:on. As you can guess, this is the command to switch on the Rotilio's relais.
https://api.particle.io/v1/devices/30001c000647343232363230/message?access_token=a8e5239db48cdd43165abf879fcd7f43280cd874&args=setrelais%3Aon
Lets' immagine how much can be simple to write down a web or mobile app to manage the garage door opening in les than an hour.
The big thing is that Rotilio can send events to applications, servers and other cloud services.
https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/30001c000647343232363230/events/?access_token=a8e5239db48cdd43165abf879fcd7f43280cd874
For example, each time the Rotilio's relais switches to ON, you app can know this receving a message like below.
{"data":"relais:1","ttl":"60","published_at":"2016-01-07T22:15:30.482Z","coreid":"30001c000647343232363230"}
Rotilio comes to you with the most common sensors and actuators on board.
You may want connect Rotilio to other devices, so here you can find all the connections available.
A0 - Buzzer
A1 - Photoresistor
A2 - Trimmer
A3 - Releais status
A4 - MAX485 -
A5 - MAX485 -
A6 - Free
A7 - Free
D0 - I2C SDA (on board temperature, umidity, pressure sensors)
D1 - I2C SCL (on board temperature, umidity, pressure sensors)
D2 - P1, user button 1
D3 - RELAIS RESET (bistable only OFF)
D4 - RELAIS SET (monostable on/off - bistable ON)
D5 - Switch
D6 - P2, user button 2
D7 - Free (on board blue led)
TXD - SERIAL TTL TX
RXD - SERIAL TTL RX
RS485A - RS-485 Serial A
RS485B - RS-485 Serial B
RST - Reset
Vbat - Backup battery (+3 V) for RTC clock in sleep mode
+5V - +5V power supply
+3.3V - +3.3V power supply
GND - Ground
Download Pinout datasheet in PDF format.
Photoresistor - Resolution 12 bit (A1)
Trimmer - Resolution 12 bit (A2)
P1 - Resolution 1 bit (D2)
P2 - Resolution 1 bit (D6)
Switch - Resolution 1 bit (D5)
Temperature1 - Si7020 (I2C - D0&D1) - precision 0.1°C
Umidity - Si7020 (I2C - D0&D1) - precision 1%
Temperature2 - MS5673 (I2C - D0&D1) - precision 0.1°C
Pressure/Altitude - MS5673 (I2C - D0&D1) - precision 1 mbar
Relais - Mono (D4) or bi-stable (D4&D3), simple screw connector,no soldering needed
Buzzer - Resolution 1 bit (A0)
RGB Led - Resolution 8 bit/color (Photon), alpha intensity
Blue Led - Resolution 1 bit (D7)
WiFI - Broadcom BCM43362, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, open, wep, wpa wpa2, Soft AP Setup, FCC/CE/IC certified
or
CELLULAR - GPRS/3G/LTE Global data plan
RS485 - MAX485 Chip (A4/A5)
SERIAL TTL - Serial TTL (RXD - TXD)
I2C - (D0&D1)
Mini USB B - RS-232 over USB
CPU - STM32F205 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3, Arduino compatible
Memory - 1MB flash, 128KB RAM, 100 byte flash simulated EEProm
+5V / +3.3V / Mini USB
Typical power consumption:
- 160 microA in deep sleep mode (Photon only)
- 450 mA full throttle with CPU+WiFI+Sensors+LED
Using deep sleep mode, Rotilio can be powered by batteries. The on board battery permits to store some variables you need to persists to restore the status of memory and CPU awaking from sleep.
The on board battery is not useful for power supply purpose, so you need to provide an external battery, connected to USB or +5v or +3.3v pins.
70x70x20 mm
You can buy Rotilio MAKER, ready to go, here: Techmakers srl.
If you need support about Rotilio or want to know more about Rotilio and Techmakers, drop us a line to: support@techmakers.io
Rotilio is proudly crafted and developed in Genova by Techmakers srl, a startup for Internet connected industrial and consumer products.
Have a Rotilio working and on-line starting from a brand new Photon. (you don't need to do that if you bought Rotilio with the Photon, because we ship Photon with the firmware updated).
- Extract Photon from it's package and place it on Rotilio
- Use activation procedure from Particle.io
- Upload Rotilio firmware to your Photon (see above for details)
- Head on to https://rotilio.cc and log-in with same Particle.io credentials
- Select your Rotilio and enjoy !!!
- Clone or download the code https://github.com/techmakers/rotilio.cc/tree/master/firmware on your desktop (or wathever you prefer on your PC)
- Head on to https://build.particle.io/build and, if neccessay do login with your Particle.io credentials
- After interface opens, click "Create new app" button in the "Code" section.
- Name your App, eg: MyRotilio
- Be sure to select the right Photon device in the "Devices" section
- Click on "Flash" (the flash icon) to send the firmware to your Rotilio
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