Category: Linux

1-wire, Node-Red, Domoticz & Grafana

September 1, 2016 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Home Automation , IoT , Linux , MQTT - by admin - No Comments

Recently I posted a shiny graph of my garage temperature after I’d put a car with a hot engine in there. The spikes were fairly pronounced, and it was possibly to see where I’d left the door open whilst I worked on the car, before going for a test drive […]

MQTT to Zabbix Gateway

December 24, 2013 - Geek , Home Automation , Linux , MQTT , Technology - by admin - 1 Comment

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 […]

Automated Kitchen Lighting

January 31, 2013 - Computers , Home Automation , Linux , MQTT - by admin - 2 Comments

Recently I decided to make some changes to the kitchen. It started off with a strip of warm white LEDs, and I thought “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”. I’ve now lost count of the number of guests asking how it works 🙂 There’s a variety of components at play here. […]

Thinkpad X201S Fan Control

December 13, 2012 - Computers , Geek , Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

I noticed the other day (it was kind of hard to not notice, to be honest) that my laptop shut down abruptly when it overheated. This shouldn’t be the case, as the thermal controls on the mainboard should have spun up the fans. After some poking around, I found that […]

OWFS Server on The Raspberry Pi

November 14, 2012 - Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - 1 Comment

Quick and simple this one is. I have a DS9490R (internally it’s a DS1490F) one-wire bus master attached to my Raspberry Pi. 4 DS18B20 temperature sensors are hanging off the bus, and I’d like to access them from the home automation server. On the Raspberry Pi, or the server/device that’s […]