Cooking with Vera

Revision as of 23:25, 18 April 2013

Disclaimer

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

Please note that the United States Department of Agriculture recommends a temperature of at least 63 °C (145 °F) for beef, veal, lamb steaks and roasts in order to prevent foodborne illness.

Ingredients

• Vera (tested with firmware 1.5.622)
• RFXtrx433 USB transceiver (tested with firmware v51; recommended firmware: v66; PBA comes with a fix for a temperature bug in earlier RFXtrx433 firmware versions)
• RFXtrx433 plugin: http://code.mios.com/trac/mios_rfxtrx
• Rubicson thermometer 48659: http://www.kjell.com/sortiment/hus-halsa-fritid/kokstillbehor/matlagningstermometrar/tradlos-stektermometer-p48659
  • Suspected clones (untested):
    • Menuett: http://www.jula.se/tradlos-stektermometer-med-timer-943109
    • GEFU: http://www.gefu.com/index.php?id=119&no_cache=1&tx_pbproductgallery_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=779
  • Manuals:
    • S: http://www.kjell.com/.mvc/Document/File?id=6c8f0fbd-c964-4199-aff7-a16401051b4d
    • S, N, PL, GB: http://www.jula.se/media/pdf/product/Manual/943109_SV-NO-PL-EN_20120516.pdf
• Personal Barbecue Assistant (PBA) plugin: available soon
• Your favourite food

Directions

• Connect the RFXtrx433 to your Vera.
• Install the RFXtrx433 plugin.
• Install and setup the PBA plugin:
  • Set ThermometerDeviceID to the device id of your wireless thermometer ("RFX Temp T9/...").
  • Setup a scene with trigger "Target temperature is reached"/"Yes" and add whatever action you would like to have executed when the target temperature is reached (e.g., switch on the table light, switch on a siren, switch off the oven, play an announcement (see example below), send an email or a SMS to your guests, ...).
  • Restart LuaUPnP.
• Select food and gradation or set a custom target temperature (via PBA device tab).
• Enjoy your meal!

Example

Example action for announcement using SAD for Squeezebox (http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Squeezebox#SAD_-_Squeezebox_Server_Announcement_Device):

LMS_IP         = '192.168.x.y'
LMS_CLI_Port   = 9090
SB_MAC         = '00:04:20:xx:xx:xx' 
 
PBA_DEVICE_ID  = 564
PBA_SERVICE_ID = 'urn:upnp-ap15e-com:serviceId:PBA'
 
local ft = luup.variable_get( PBA_SERVICE_ID, 'FoodText'     , PBA_DEVICE_ID )
local gt = luup.variable_get( PBA_SERVICE_ID, 'GradationText', PBA_DEVICE_ID )
 
local announcement = 'Your meal is ready' -- for custom target temperature
 
if ft ~= '' and gt ~= ''
 then
  announcement = 'Your ' .. tostring( ft ) .. ' is ' .. tostring( gt ) 
 end
 
announcement = string.gsub( announcement or '', ' ', '+' )
 
announcement = 'http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=' .. announcement
 
LMS_Say( LMS_IP      ,   -- IP address of LMS 
         LMS_CLI_Port,   -- CLI Port of LMS (default: 9090)
         SB_MAC      ,   -- MAC address of player
         '%20'       ,   -- line 1
         '%20'       ,   -- line 2
         1           ,   -- in seconds
         announcement,   -- audio announcement
         5           ,   -- duration of announcement in seconds
         5             ) -- number of announcements