ESP8266 I’m not a hardware guy, not at all. But I’m amazed by the wide range of <10E devices and their capabilities if you combine them with ESP8266 or similar technology. Memory, CPU, Wifi for less than 5 bugs? Wow! IOT games require sensors - so far I’m at: Outside...
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Customized bootstrap homecontrol
Some frameworks are more temping then others..
GUI framework for homeautomation… When I started to play with IOT sensors (DS18B20 for temperature reading) the wish to find a nice representation layer started quickly. At that point in time I settled with a php/highcharts javascript combination running on my raspberry. Later on I had a look at a...
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SONOFF RF Bridge
433MHz to Wifi bridge / PIR motion / Reed Window sensor / Brennenstuhl RCS 1000 N PowerSwitch
SONOFF RF Bridge Once the framework is there you start thinking about usecases. Usecases immediatly call for sensors. In my case, I’m still looking for a nice set of window sensors. I’d be interessted in: Message ‘Window Open’ Message ‘Window Closed’ Message ‘Window vibration’ (e.g. somebody trying to get in)’...
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Getting started with IOT
How to get rid of all that spare time
The beginning Having searched for a long time we bought and renovated a house end of 2013. As we were on a budget, parental leave and blessed with supporting family members we did a lot of stuff ourself. In total we had a bit more than three month between getting...
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ItsMee Blogging - me? why? what?
This is my first post, how exciting!