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…
Tag: Mosquitto
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…
A self-hosted MQTT environment for Internet of Things – Part 2
In the second post in this series, I will setup two ESP8266 microcontrollers with MQTT publishing through a Raspberry Pi-hosted Mosquitto broker. The idea is that the microcontrollers will send…
A self-hosted MQTT environment for Internet of Things – Part 1
MQTT (MQ Telemetry Protocol) is a lightweight machine-to-machine communication protocol that works on top of TCP/IP and it is very much suited for usage in an Internet-of-Things scenario. MQTT uses the publish-subscribe pattern…
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