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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Pool Controller and Another Guest Speaker

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Let me introduce Mike He's another one of us folk that wanted automation, but didn't want to pay unreasonable prices or be locked i...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

My Newest Old Toy

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I've gotten some flack, not a lot, but there have been a few people that seem to think all I do is huddle over a laptop and play with ti...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Hacking Into The Iris Door Sensor, Part 4, Resolution

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The previous post on this project is here < link >. Well, my partner in questionable activity in hacking the Iris Contact Switch and...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

MQTT, Early Lessons Learned, and a Concern

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So, I'm stepping through code trying to work out the best way of switching to mqtt for handling data from various devices and commands t...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

MQTT Conversion, First Steps

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Last post I talked about trying out mqtt and being impressed with the ease of using it. It really went well and I decided to convert my hous...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

OK, Fine, I'll take a look at MQTT

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A number of my readers have mentioned mqtt as a great tool for the kind of thing I'm doing around the house. A couple of them have point...
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Friday, May 29, 2015

Arduino Controlled Sprinklers, and A Guest Speaker

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Yes, I have a guest speaker for this post. Glenn lives in the part of Texas where they got about a ton (per square inch) of rain recently. S...
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