Category: Home Automation
Server side geofencing with Owntracks, Node-Red and Domoticz
Where to start? The first challenge was getting data from my phone on public networks to my private MQTT server. At home I run Mosquitto for handling any message brokering, particularly with Domoticz and Node-Red pushing messages around. I won’t go into the details, but suffice to say I have […]
Read More1-wire, Node-Red, Domoticz & Grafana
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 […]
Read MoreAWS 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 MoreHousehold temperature monitoring
I’ve had it in my mind to control the heating of the house via the computer for a while now, but my first requirement was always to monitor the environment, so the computer can at least make an informed decision about whether the heating is *actually* required. A while ago […]
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