Category: Geek
AWS IOT with Mosquitto
Amazon AWS recently released the IOT service, a utility for lightweight devices to create and consume messages on the internet, and also in the case of AWS to leverage the rest of their feature set, such as Kinesis, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc. Of course, I didn’t fancy using the AWS […]
Read MoreHeating control
Recently I mentioned monitoring the house with wireless sensors dotted around the place. It uses node-red to average the temperatures, and come up with a synthetic value that gets reported back to the home control system, Domoticz. Next stage is to control the heating. The heating system in my house […]
Read MoreESP8266 Links
What with the recent buzz around the latest ESP8266 chips, I thought I should compile a list of handy links here… The manufacturer of ESP8266 – http://espressif.com/ Manufacturer discussion forum – http://bbs.espressif.com/ Community forum – http://www.esp8266.com/ Lua based firmware – http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html Discussion regarding MQTT on the ESP8266 – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mqtt/Uy985KUpG64 ESP8266 […]
Read MoreAvaya 4621SW Config by DHCP
I’ve been fiddling with an Avaya 4621SW IP phone recently, and I wondered if it would be more appropriate to pass settings to it via DHCP options, rather than editing the 46xxsettings.txt file that it always downloads via TFTP. Previously I had the following in my 46xxsettings.txt file SET SIPDOMAIN […]
Read MoreMQTT to Zabbix Gateway
For a while now I’ve been wanting to try and monitor home automation parameters by using Zabbix. I already use it to monitor, graph and alert on servers and services at work and at home, so it was a logical extension to use it for home automation. I hope to […]
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