Let’s Encrypt is a great service to get free SSL certificates. There is no more excuse to not encrypt all your services, it’s Free!! Let’s Encrypt is able to offer these free certificates by automating everything. The certificates it offers […]
Tools needed to flash a Sonoff with the aspurna firmware. TTL-USP Serial Cable esptool – from Espressif for programming espurna binary firmware ESPTool Clone the Esptool repository. In a terminal window on the MAC do the following: Setup ESPTool To […]
Grafana is an excellent program to create very cool graphs and charts from your Home Assistant sensor data. If you are using Grafana and want to embed graphs into your Home Assistant dahboards, then you will have […]
Home Assistant is event driven. This means that most sensors will not get updated into the database unless the value of the sensor changes. This is not usually a problem since but if you are storing the sensor […]
This is part two of the Universal Rremote for OpenHAB project. In this part, we will install and configure the Lirc software on our Raspberry Pi. Part 1 of the article (Building the hardware) is located here: Building an […]
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This is the first part of a multi-part project to build an IR receiver/transmitter that will work with my existing remote and talk with my OpenHAB server.
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I currently run Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi that is hooked up to be 3D printer. This setup uses HAProxy to provider the web front end for the user. I am in the process of securing all my systems so […]
I required a later version on Java that the one that came with Raspbian. This was required for OpenHAB. So how do you upgrade your version of Java? Run the following commands:
The Nordic NRF24L01+ 2.4Ghz radio board is a great little radio to use for all your projects. No, it is not wifi compatable. It uses it’s own protocal but it is very easy it integrate into an Arduino project, is […]
I replaced my closet doors and decided to also place some LED strip lighting in the closets. I look all over for a good controller to turn the LED lights on/off as the closet doors open and close. This seemed […]
