Getting an IKEA Motion Sensor to work in Node Red
I usually start my posts by warning readers that I'm an amateur with no background in coding or electronics. I write these blogs because while I'm »
The Idiot's guide to making Volos Project's Beautiful Smart Watch
As I've mentioned so many times in my blog posts, I've never studied electronics or engineering. Consequently, I come at my projects entirely as an amateur »
Make a Remote Temp Sensor with Permanent Display inside your House
Most of us use a phone app to see the temperature outside - which is fine if you don't mind receiving a reading from a sensor »
Connecting Switcher Devices to Node Red
One of the first commercial home automation devices I bought was a hot water boiler switch from Switcher. Like most remote devices, it came with its »
Cricket Version 2
Update November 2022 - it seems that ThingsonEdge didn't make it and the cricket is no longer available. Their web and social media presence have disappeared »
Remote On/Off Switch for Blynk Relay - using ThingsonEdge Cricket, Node Red, and MQTT
Like most makers, my home is automated - not with off-the-shelf IoT devices, but with home-built switches and relays, Raspberry Pis and ESPs. My first remote »
Learn how to easily ssh into many Raspberry Pis without passwords
This post was prompted by an exchange I saw on a RasPi Facebook group a couple of weeks ago. It started when someone asked how many »
Display colourful live graphs on any Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks
My last post was about the Cricket ESP8266 board, a tiny device that lets you run an ESP8266 for months on a single AA battery. In »
"Cricket" from Things on Edge
A chance encounter on a Facebook group brought me - literally - to the Edge. I read a post in which someone mentioned the ThingsonEdge "Cricket" »
Your IoT devices may be disconnecting your router - a quick, simple, and inexpensive fix
A couple of months ago I posted a project to build a router-restarter with an simple ESP8266 and a relay. The post proved to be very »