Category: Home Automation

ESP8266 Links

December 13, 2014 - Computers , Geek , Home Automation , IoT , MQTT - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

MQTT GPIO Monitoring

October 25, 2012 - Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - No Comments

My little Raspberry Pi seems to be growing arms and legs. The other day I hooked up a simple PIR to it. I can’t remember where I got it, but it runs off 5v, consumes a low enough amount of milliAmps to be directly connected to the Raspberry Pi 5v […]