This week I did the first steps in getting the project started.Installed Raspbian on the Pi 3connected the 7" Touchscreen display to the Pi Every thing went flawlessly. I mainly did the same steps as rhavourd in ([Pi IoT] Hangar Central #3 ...
IoT Tower Light
Modification
OpenHAB
The IoT Tower Light is a small project I created not so long ago, to be used as a notification system. One of the aims of this challenge, was to incorporate its control in OpenHAB. IoT Tower Light...
The day I had been waiting for is finally here! My challenge kit has arrived. I was feeling a bit nostalgic and thinking about all of those claymation TV shows of my youth, so I decided to make my own. Without further ado: players.brightcove.net...
This post covers the "final" versions of the code and hardware used for the nodes in the living room, parents and kids´ bedrooms. I say "final" as I expect to require some bugs, the nice thing of prototyping . In the project statu...
Hello After playing a little with Adafruit MQTT python client and feeds, I decided to change the data transmission protocol between nodes, from HTTP requests to MQTT, RaspberryPi acting as broker+client and ESP8266 nodes...
The kit for the contest arrived a few days ago and am now sorting through the awesome devices to further understand how to interface with them as well as their use model. There have been plenty of pics posted of the kit, so I'll just list w...
Sense HAT
Sensor Data
Temperature, Humidity & Pressure
Accelerometer, Gyroscope & Magnetometer
Joystick
LED Matrix
Text
Shape
Issue ?
As explained in my unboxing post, I wasn't originally planning to use the Sense HAT ...
Now we have a working Raspberry Pi 3 with Z-Way it's time to connect it to the backbone of Thuis: MQTT. For this I developed a custom userModule/app. In this post I'll explain what it does, how to use it and how it works. GoalThe app enables Z-W...
Last week I explained how I'm using Chef to provision my Raspberry Pi's and the recipes in my Thuis cookbook. Back then I didn't have a Raspberry Pi 3 yet, so I tested it on an older model. This week the kit arrived, so I'll bring the bootstrapping i...
In last blog, I discussed how to create dashboards for data monitoring using freeboard. In this post, I will use freeboard to display the data acquired from sense hat. In my PiIoT architecture, I want to create a distributed system, I will be creatin...
On past June 23 inside this PiIoT challenge project I have tried a new (and experimental) way for project updates: planned live events shared Twitter with Periscope. After some few troubles on the settings, the first three minutes of this event was l...
Kit
Parts
Raspberry Pi 3 & B+
Touch Screen
Sense HAT
Camera Module (Regular + NoIR)
PiFace Digital 2
PiRack
Accessories
The kit has arrived! There are a lot of parts in this kit, so I want to take the time to write a ...
Just an image of the components I received in the mail today: SenseHat, Wi-Pi and PiFace digital are missing, but these are no showstoppers for the project.Stay tuned!
After receiving my package on Friday evening and unboxing all the Raspberry Pi goodies in the element14 brown box .. And after being overcome by happiness ! looking at the awesome Pi 7" display , I knew the first thing that I had to do was to 3...
In my last post I explained the basics of Chef, and in the last week I worked on defining the configuration of each node. I selected several cookbooks from the Supermarket and wrote some myself. Using a series of recipes I defined the software and co...
Hardware
Software
OpenHAB
emonPi is an open-hardware energy monitoring solution based on the Raspberry Pi. It was originally launched as a Kickstarter around April last year and raised almost £25,000 with a £15,000 goal. It comes in diffe...
MuZIEum is a strange compound word - also in Dutch - a wordplay with museum and see (ZIE in Dutch)MuZIEum = ZIE & Museum- museum open your eyes -It is the place where the IoT reading place will be tested and installed thanks to the great MuZIEum ...
Movement detection and RF comms are the last two components for the minimum setup of a node in DomPi. The RF comms allows each of the remote nodes (Arduino based) to send and receive data from the Command Center (Raspberry Pi 3 based). The movement d...
Hello In this post I'll show you some more details on wireless nodes schematics and operation and also the code I write so far for nodes and Raspberry web server. Wireless ESP8266 nodes At this moment I have two wireless nodes base...
EnOceanPi
EnOceanSpy
Installing
Using
Interpreting
OpenHAB
EnOcean offers a range of wireless, self-powered sensors, measuring: temperature, humidity, contact, etc ... I've been using them in my house ever since the Forget Me Not De...
Inspired by one of the other challengers I started to experiment with Chef. fvan is using Puppet to provision his Raspberry Pi's. To get more knowledge on the several tools out there we decided to both try one. So that's why I started using Chef.&nbs...
In this post I´m covering three components: RF plug control, detecting IR from the TV remote and measuring the node´s environment. This last one I intend to reutilize it in most of the other nodes. The point is that there is lots to cover before the ...
My PiIot Design Challenge project is an (airplane) hangar control system, "Hangar Central". One of the components will be a remotely scheduled and operated engine block heater, which I intend to power using a relay whose low-voltage control circuit i...
First step in implementing the home automation system is the monitoring part. This part consist in remote wireless nodes which send temperature and humidity measurements values to a central node made with RaspberryPi, where t...
In this entry I discuss the implementation of MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) as the connectivity protocol. The Message Queue Telemetry Transport protocol was born as a machine to machine connection protocol for devices where a light i...
