This article continues the short-stories on the home-automation. For my previous article, on the automation of my heat unit, click here. For the door, I didn’t want to use some existing devices to lock/unlock via bluetooth or create an alternative for that. The idea that made me have this device was after we forgot to …
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Project 3: entrance door
This article continues the short-stories on the home-automation. For my previous article, on the automation of my heat unit, click here. For the door, I didn’t want to use some existing devices to lock/unlock via bluetooth or create an alternative for that. The idea that made me have this device was after we forgot to …
Project 2: heat
The heat-controlling device is the second smart-device I’ve added to my house. For the first one, that controls lights to bath and hall, you can read more here. My central heating system uses gas heating controlled by a remote wireless sensor and a wireless receiver. So wireless control was a default setting in my heating …
My intro into IoT – 04
Last time, we finished setting up the ESP8266 module. Now, let’s switch a bit back on what I started the blog, to Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi as hub The credit-card sized single board computer, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, is the third-generation Raspberry Pi. Adding keyboard, mouse, display, power supply, SD card with Linux on it, …
My intro into IoT – 03
In my previous intro article, you setup the drivers for the ESP module. Next: Firmware Next, you’ll need to install the firmware on the NodeMCU board. Go to NodeMCU build side – https://nodemcu-build.com/ leave the master branch selected and, for required modules, what’s selected should be enough. If you’ll need more, try to select only …
My intro into IoT – 02
Last time I talked about the ESP8266 modules I’ve been using. Now let’s move on to the next steps of building an IoT project. Getting started. I was working on this on a MAC, for Linux it should be the same. On Windows machines, you’ll need to install pip – https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/ and Python https://www.python.org/downloads/. First, …
My intro into IoT – 01
The IoT for me started when I borrowed, from my friend Darius, an ESP8266 module, the NodeMCU development board. After playing a bit with it, the next step was a few orders on aliexpress with some sensors, relays and NodeMCU boards. What’s that? Node MicroController Unit (NodeMCU) is an open source software and hardware dev …