DIY Projects Home automation, connected objects (IoT) and DIY projects based on Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, mini PC (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi) and 3D printing

Arduino MySensors library allows you to very easily perform a probe temperature and humidity at base DHT11 or DHT22, which we can easily retrieve the values on a home automation software or program any. This is a good exercise to discover the MySensors library and home automation. List of Material Arduino …

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Node-RED Dashboard module allows you to very easily add a (very nice) graphic interface to a Node-RED project. The Dashboard module succeeds UI module . With this module you can add displays to view various forms of action: gauges, chart, text, notification, or the free HTML code. You can also add …

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There are a very large number of modules (Nodes) and Flows for Node-RED available on the online library http://flows.nodered.org/. The palette Manager allows to enable or disable Nodes included in each module, to install or uninstall modules without even having to leave RED Node. It is very easy to manage the modules …

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Simple appearance on paper (the screen!), the realization of an object connected with nRF24L01 radio module can quickly be complicated to the point if we want to pass data long distance (several tens of meter, see hundreds). After spending many hours testing different materials to find the right settings, I propose this article …

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Our smartphone (and tomorrow our smartwatch) leaves us more. Always at hand and always connected, it is the quickest and most natural today to access the internet, send messages… and why not fly our equipment home automation and connected objects. Apple, Google, Samsung… don’t be wrong and develop all their …

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We saw in the previous article how to install and Docker Toolbox for test automation simply on Mac and PC software. Now that Docker is officially supported by the Raspberry Foundation, it is very easy to install. We will take the opportunity to test some home automation software. To achieve …

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You don’t know what home automation software choose to create your installation, Docker is a good way to test easily and quickly without having to configure a machine every time. We’ll see how to test Jeedom, Domoticz, openHAB and Home Assistant. In this article, we will use Kitematic (included in …

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MySensors objects communicate with each other in the form of small text messages sent by radio waves. It is very easy to decode messages in following the technical specifications of the API available on the series official website of the project. The MySensors library allows to facilitate the development of applications …

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Wemos continues to develop the mini D1. The Wemos D1 mini Pro comes to expand the family. It is always built around an ESP8266EX but this time with 4 times more memory (16Mbytes) than the previous version. Wemos headed on compactness with this new generation of card ESP8266 by incorporating …

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To develop your projects with Arduino or ESP8266 on Raspberry Pi basis, one may need to access the serial port for the update. This tutorial should work on all distributions of Linux and Raspbian in particular. I wrote this tutorial because I needed to access messages from my Gateway MySensors …

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