31 March 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, Domoticz, ESP8266, Home Automation, Web Server (Interface), Wemos D1 mini
581
We continue today the tutorial dedicated to the exchange of data between Domoticz and an ESP8266 by HTTP request and more particularly how to control the GPIO from Domoticz. In the previous article, we set up sending data from an ESP8266 to Domoticz. In this article, we will set up communication …
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24 March 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, Domoticz, RFLink
1,698
RFLink is an open source project that allows to realize a gateway between a home automation software and home automation modules that communicate by radio waves. It is a very economical alternative to the well known commercial RFXCom gateway. RFLink is capable of managing frequencies 315, 433, 868, 915MHz and …
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24 March 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, Domoticz, ESP8266, Home Automation, Web Client, Wemos D1 mini
767
In this tutorial, we will use the ESP8266Client and ESP8266HTTPClient libraries to implement TCP/IP communication between and an ESP8266 NodeMCU module and the Domoticz API/JSON interface. We will use a temperature and humidity sensor DHT22 as well as a BMP180 atmospheric pressure sensor to publish real measurements on virtual sensors …
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24 February 2017
Domoticz, ESP EASY, Home Automation
687
In the previous tutorial we saw how to create a remote display for the Jeedom home server using an OLED screen configured with the ESP Easy firmware. Impossible not to explain how to do the same with Domoticz! We have to do with the constraints of the firmware ESP Easy, …
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7 February 2017
Domoticz, Home Automation
263
If you have lost your Domoticz password or login, here’s how to re-initialize your permissions using an SSH connection. From a computer on the network, launch the Terminal or Power Shell and open an SSH connection [crayon-594cd42106450197070094/] Go to the folder and stop the service [crayon-594cd42106457721593062/] Stopping may take a …
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19 January 2017
Domoticz, Home Automation, Mini PC : Orange Pi, Raspberry Pi, Board computer..., Orange Pi
1,515
Orange Pi Lite because of its low price and its performance close to a Raspberry Pi 3 is a very good solution to build a home automation server at a lower cost. Domoticz does not officially support this platform. There is therefore no official image. We will have to install …
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6 January 2017
Domoticz, Home Automation, Raspberry PI
1,392
Domoticz is a free and open source home automation server very simple to install and configure on a Raspberry Pi 3 (or 2). In this article we will discover how to install and configure it. To write this article I used a Raspberry Pi 3 equipped with a Micro SD …
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20 December 2016
Domoticz, Home Automation, Raspberry PI
296
Assign a fixed IP address to your Raspberry Pi can be very useful if you have many materials (computers, accessories, home automation, ESP Easy DIY projects, home automation box…) on its local network. For this tutorial, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 under Raspbian, but the procedure is the same regardless …
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12 December 2016
Domoticz, ESP EASY, ESP8266, Home Automation
2,737
In this tutorial, we will see how to create a virtual instrument combining several measures of other sensors in a Dummy Device firmware ESP Easy. A practical use case is to combine the moisture measurement obtained using a DHT11 or DHT22 with the measurement of atmospheric pressure accomplished by using …
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7 December 2016
Domoticz, ESP EASY, ESP8266, Home Automation
1,351
Domoticz dummy device allow to recover measures (temperature probe, detector of presence…) or to send orders to a DIY connected object, for example a relay. Virtual devices can also be used to display information retrieved from an online service (weather, air quality, road traffic,…). We’ll see how to retrieve measures temperature and …
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DIY Projects Home automation, connected objects (IoT) and DIY projects based on Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, mini PC (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi) and 3D printing
