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[Pi IoT] Hangar Control, The Wrapup

rhavourd

It's been a fun project and I hope that you were able to glean some useful tidbits to use in your own projects. HangarControl EpisodesPi IoT - Smarter Spaces with Raspberry Pi 3 - Smarter Spaces with Raspberry Pi 3 - Hanger Control System Hangar Centr...
- 29 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] HangarControl #9, Preheat via Text Messaging

rhavourd

Now that the web interface is up and running (), it is time to add the final piece: Operating the hangars via text messaging!Text Messaging GatewayI'm going to use Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/) to provide a link between the SMS or text messa...
- 29 Aug 2016
Pi Control Hub : Getting EnOcean Sensor data to Hub via MQTT

carmelito

As part of this blog post we are going to get the values of the EnOcean Temperature sensor and the Magnetic Contact switch which is attached to the door to check if the door is Open/Closed, to Home-Assistant which is installed on the Hub. The EnOcean...
- 29 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Hangar Control #8, Operator's Web Interface

rhavourd

Managing Hangars Via the WebThere are many different individuals that will need access to the HangarControl system. Pilots may be at home, at their office, or on the road. With that in mind, I wanted to create a single web interface that would accomm...
- 29 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Alarm Clock #22: Key Holder

fvan

Mechanism Code Gallery This post is about a mini project that I suddenly thought of during the challenge and thought would fit well as part of the larger project The idea was to make a key holder allowing up to four different (sets of) k...
- 29 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] - Remote Horse Feeder System #6 : OpenHAB, Pi Face and MQTT

jomoenginer

I just realized that the cut off time for submission is 11:59 PM GMT which is a bit sooner than I expected, so here be what I have thus far.After getting the connections completed with the Pi Rack, I moved to working on the Automation application of ...
- 29 Aug 2016
IoT Farm: Blog 12 - Farm Eyes, Success!

jkutzsch

In previous blogs i had shared my issues of having the RPi B+ running MotionEyeOs with multiple cameras and wireless networking enabled. Today I have had success getting everything outside and monitoring the Farm! First off, hardwired I ha...
- 29 Aug 2016
Pi Control Hub: The HUB

carmelito

It is now time!! to put the all the electronic components together into a nice enclosure, which I am calling the HUB ,using some 3D printing with Wood filament and some basic wood working using a Dremel tool.Here is a gallery of the finished HUB&nbs...
- 29 Aug 2016
Henrietta LCARS - Pi Iot Blog 6

dougw

The schedule for the Pi Iot design challenge is winding down, but this project is still just beginning. It is experiencing some horrendous delays which are taking it out of the running in the contest, but hopefully the project will continue at its ow...
- 28 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Thuis #16: Home Theater part 3: Plex

rhe123

Plex is software which makes it possible to enjoy all of your media on all your devices. When on the server you create a library based on video (and music, photos, etc) files, Plex finds the corresponding metadata and gives you an easy to use interfa...
- 28 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Thuis #15: Home Theater part 2: controls

rhe123

In [Pi IoT] Thuis #11: Final implementation UI design you saw our Thuis iOS app, which has a few buttons for controlling the Home Theater. In this post we'll make sure they work well. For brevity I will describe only the main scene: it makes sure we ...
- 28 Aug 2016
Pi IoT - Simone - #6 - The rest

bosc

Note:At this point in the project I will try and explain as best as I can how I see these components working and how they should integrate with the main system. Unfortunately I do not have time to continue developing them along with the Challenge but...
- 28 Aug 2016
Pi IoT - Simone - #5 - Laundry notifier

bosc

Note: At this point in the project I will try and explain as best as I can how I see these components working and how they should integrate with the main system. Unfortunately I do not have time to continue developing them along with the Challenge bu...
- 28 Aug 2016
Pi IoT - Simone - #4 - Power consumption statistics and control

bosc

Before note:I am not and electrical engineer nor do I have experience working in this field. Please double check anything I say in this post before trying it yourself. Previous posts:Pi IoT - Simone - Introduction Pi IoT - Simone - #1 - Light Co...
- 28 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] HangarControl #8.1 -- What's a database? The Movie

rhavourd

That's right! What's an episode without the "made for TV version"?players.brightcove.net/.../index.htmlThe TakeawayIn just a couple dozen lines of code, we have implemented everything that we need for our user management. Understand...
- 28 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #8: Competition system III - Android Competition application: communicating with the server

clazarom

To finish the Android competition application, I need to add the "updating functions". That is, send the information not updated to the Central Node (web server) and wait for a confirmation. If the confirmation arrives, information is...
- 28 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] HangarControl #8, Database? What's a Database?

rhavourd

Don't Over Complicate ItOftentimes it seems that as programmers, or anything else for that matter, we get caught up in a particular pattern for doing things. One that I see quite often is the use of SQL databases in various projects. The "kids" these...
- 28 Aug 2016
IoT Farm: Blog 11 - FOC Box. Farm Operations Center in a Box.

jkutzsch

In my last post I shared the variety of boxes I found at the local Walmart ranging in price from 25 cents to 10 cents. Today I had a chance to try 2 of them on for size and fit and quickly decided the midsize one seems almost made for being use...
- 28 Aug 2016
[PiIoT#08]: Sensing with SenseHat

vish

I was waiting for the new sensehat to reach me before writing this post, but the recent updates suggests that I may not get it before the deadline. So I decided to go on with the faulty one I have. Although the code will work regardless of the ...
- 28 Aug 2016
PiIoT - DomPi 15: IPCam Integration

mg.sergio

During these last 2 days and before the official end of the Challenge, I have managed to integrate my Foscam IPCam into the DomPi project. This will probably be the last post with some solid progress. Let´s go into the details! Previous PostsPiI...
- 28 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Thuis #14: Home Theater part 1: CEC

rhe123

An important part of Thuis is integration of our Home Theater system. As the integration is quite extensive and consists of several components, this will be a 3-part blog series. In the first part we start with communicating to CEC-enabled devices fr...
- 27 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Plant Health Camera #11 - Finalization

gpolder

After quite a bit of hard work during the last days, the project reached its end. Of course many improvements can be made, and other features can be added, but that is for later, after the challenge. I had the plan to add humidity, pressure and tempe...
- 27 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #7: Competition system II - Android Competition application: tracking the distance

clazarom

This update describer the Android application created to manage the acquisition of points for the competition. At this moment, the competition only includes running or walking the maximum number of km at the end of each month. Also, since we can not ...
- 27 Aug 2016
[Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #6: Competition system I - Platform overview

clazarom

This update should help navigate through the next posts: it's been a long period without any news and I will be quite active for the next days... I hope the final result does not look very confusing ^^u The innovation part of this project is...
- 27 Aug 2016
Pi IoT - Simone - #3 - Door / Window notifier

bosc

This post will cover the doors and windows notifier Previous posts:Pi IoT - Simone - Introduction Pi IoT - Simone - #1 - Light Controller Pi IoT - Simone - #2 - Main System For this part of the project I initially wanted to use the EnOcean Ha...
- 27 Aug 2016