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…
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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:…
Home Assistant – getting started and using MQTT sensors
I’ve been searching for an easy-to-get-started home automation platform that can be extended and customized as my needs grow. After struggling with OpenHAB, Domoticz and Freedomotic, I’ve found Home Assistant…
Monitoring CPU temperatures on a Raspberry Pi with MQTT
Recently I’ve had problems with my Raspberry Pi 3 overheating though I use a heat sink for the processor and have a very modest load on the machine. When the RPi…
Radio chirp data incorporated in an MQTT environment
Internet-of-things does not require that every device has to be directly connected to the Internet. The complexity and possible security issues with every sensor having its own IP address would in…
A self-hosted MQTT environment for Internet of Things – Part 3
In the last post in this series, I will add persisting of sensor data to a database. I will also use an additional subscriber as a proxy for sending the…
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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