Tag: MQTT

September 29, 2022

Zemismart KS-811 with OpenBK7231N/OpenBeken

Recently a friend bought some Zemismart wall switches and they have a BK7231N chip rather than an ESP8266. This outines the OpenBeken project and how it can be used in the switch in a similar way to Tasmota/ESPHome.

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August 31, 2022

Vehicle 12V Battery Monitoring

Using the Analogue input on an ESP8266 and voltage divider to monitor the status of a 12V battery in a car.

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May 27, 2022

Xiaomi BLE LCD Thermometers in Home Assistant

Using esphome in an ESP32 dev board to pull the values of some cheap Xiaomi LCD temp sensors (with BLE) and integrate them into home assistant.

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January 27, 2022

WH1080 Fine Offset Weather Station Reset

I have a low cost WH1080 USB Weather station, connected by USB to an intel NUC running docker (x86). These weather stations have a bug in that they occasionally lock up and stop sending data. I implemented an automated way to reset it.

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November 18, 2021

Tasmota Run on Timer Rules: Triple bathroom light button

Use of a triple pushbutton, running Tasmota to do simple run-on functions in a bathroom.

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August 30, 2021

Tracking Pet Feeding with Home Automation

A method to track whether the cat and dog have been fed in a busy household.

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June 15, 2021

Edgerouter Firewall Control with MQTT

Use of an Edgerouter X router with MQTT (& mqcontrol) to block kids electronic devices from a network on commands from a home automation system.

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April 12, 2021

Internet Speed test to InfluxDB & MQTT with Docker

Use of the Ookla speedtest cli to test the internet connection regularly, and push the results to influx db & MQTT.

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March 20, 2021

Controlling a Computer Remotely with MQTT

I was looking for various ways to control my computers via home automation, and my method of choice MQTT. I found mqcontrol by albertnis to be the best option and simplest for my use case.

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November 3, 2020

Using an SDR and RTL_433 in docker with MQTT

Mainly to grab weather station data, but also useful for other 433MHz data, this is the setup I use in Docker. It uses a cheap Realtek USB SDR, and pushes data received straight to an MQTT server.

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September 21, 2020

Using nsupdate to update a DNS server using docker

Summary This sets up a continual check (using cron) to obtain the current external IP, and if it has changed from the last check, update the remote dns server (that you need full access to). Notes do not as yet show how to set up the dns server and certs. Suggestions for simplifying welcome, maybe holding the current IP address…

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June 2, 2020

USB Weather Station & Weewx using Docker

Use of a Low cost WH1080 USB Weather station, connected by USB to an intel NUC running docker.
Weewx pushes data to a local MQTT server (on the same NUC) and also uses SFTP to push graphs and displays to my commercial webserver.

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February 4, 2019

5 Steps to DIY Home Automation

You can spend thousands on home automation equipment. You could get yourself an ecosystem like Apple Homekit, Samsung Smart-Things, Control4 or many others, however with just some moderate techo skills you can set up or convert your home to pretty awesome home control with DIY. My take on home automation is that it should be pretty much invisible. Things should…

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