IOT Security Camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero and External USB WebcamIn my IOT enabled home, I have several sensors that continuously provide environmental data such as the temperature, humidity, or air…Mar 27Mar 27
Home Assistant: Measuring Air Quality, Humidity and Temperature with a BME680 SensorBuilding an IOT sensor with the ESP8266 and ESP32 boards can be done in two ways. Either you are starting with a basic sketch that accesses…Mar 17Mar 17
Home Assistant: How to Measure Battery Voltage of ESP8266 BoardsWhen you install IOT sensors inside your house, you will have plenty main power outlets, USB adapters etc. to power your boards. But when…Mar 61Mar 61
Tasmotizer: Try to Flash a WiFi LED Light with a Custom FirmwareMy IOT enabled home grows sensor by sensor. In one of the last articles, I explained which new devices I want to integrate: Power switches…Feb 24Feb 24
Tasmotizer: How to Flash a Sonoff S26R2 Power Switch with Custom Firmwaren your smart home, controlling and access sensors and devices is an essential capability. From a functional viewpoint, smart power switches…Feb 13Feb 13
Home Assistant: Overview about Smart Light and Smart Power ProtocolsIt started with a ESP8266 board and DHT11 temperature sensor to store data in a timeseries DB. And it evolved to a Home Assistant based…Feb 3Feb 3
Home Assistant and ESP Home: How to use MQTT Integration for Dynamic Device ConfigurationAn MQTT message broker is the standard way to transfer information between different IOT devices. Home Assistant has a powerful MQTT…Jan 23Jan 23
IOT: Dynamic Deep Sleep Configuration for ESP8266 and ESP32 BoardsEspecially when running your ESP boards on battery, conserving energy is an important aspect. ESPHome controlled boards can be configured…Jan 13Jan 13
Home Assistant: How to Fix API Disconnection and False Positive Sensor Readings with ESP8266 BoardsWhen using Home Assistant to integrate with ESPHome managed devices, connection timeouts can occur. Normally this means that the device…Jan 2Jan 2
InfluxDB: Optimize your Data with Data Retention Policies and Continuous QueriesInfluxDB is a time series database that you will find in the context of IOT projects. What makes these databases time-based is the simple…Dec 23, 2024Dec 23, 2024
