A React app for Philips Hue lights
In my previous post I showed how a Philips Hue bridge can be integrated with Home Assistant for controlling lights with automation. The Philips Hue bridge has an easy-to-use REST…
Category: IoT
Philips Hue and Home Assistant
Philips Hue is a line of wireless light bulbs that are controlled with Zigbee signals from a LAN-attached Philips Hue bridge. With the Philips Hue app it is very easy…
Home Assistant – notifications on iOS
Home Assistant has a nice iOS integration with the Home Assistant for iOS app. In this post I will describe how I have used the notify platform in Home Assistant…
Blynk, PlatformIO and ESP32
Blynk is an IoT-platform that consists of a Blynk server, custom projects within an iOS/Android mobile app and custom hardware IoT-nodes (Arduinos etc) using a Blynk library. The mobile app…
Owntracks, Mosquitto and Home Assistant
OwnTracks is an open-source device tracker app for iOS and Android that lets you publish location data from your mobile phone. On the mobile app you can locate other connected…
The Sensor433 library and Geeetech transmitters and receivers
As I use 433MHz transmitters for sending sensor data from many of my IoT-nodes, I have made a re-usable Arduino library for this purpose. The transmitted sensor data is picked…
InfluxDB and Grafana for sensor time series
I’ve started using InfluxDB for storing my sensor data as time series. The main reason for this is that it allows me to use Grafana for analyzing the data. This…
Home Assistant – integrating RESTful switches
I have started integrating my IoT-devices and services with the Home Assistant platform. See my previous post for details on getting started with Home Assistant and subscribing to MQTT messages:…
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