Many people come to the DIY IOT space by way of Arduino. One simple approach to home automation is to treat the Arduino as a USB device which provides the Raspberry Pi temperature readings. This was the first sensor built for my retrofit of a snowy...
There are many. ways to design an IOT network. Deploying a Kubernetes Rasbperry Pi is a relatively new approach, but one which has many advantages. Why Kubernetes for IOT? More experienced makers may point out that the ESP32/ESP8266 Arduino boards...
“Home Automation” sounds like something that belongs, well… in the home. But since we sometimes live in a van, I could not help but wonder: is there anything the Internet of Things could make easier? I already had a Raspberry Pi...
For those who want to dive deep into the Internet of Things, home-assistant.io provides an incredibly powerful platform for monitoring and automation. In my home, we use magic spellbooks as controls around the house. We even have it set up in the...
Anybody who’s set up more than a single Raspberry Pi knows how frustrating it can be to keep them all up-to-date and working correctly. The slightest configuration change can require copying files and/or repeating steps between devices. When I...
We have a cell phone and a Mifi device we use to connect to our laptops for fast internet in the van (thanks to some speed-boosting tricks). But staying under the data caps for each was challenging, so we’d try to connect to Wifi connections...
I needed a way to for guests to control my home automation. There are many easy remote control products out there, like Harmony by Logitech. But home-assistant.io is so much more powerful than these off-the-shelf solutions. So I decided to build...
