Author: jaywll
Audiophiles in Japan are installing their own electricity poles
Smart Home Dashboard
Recently, I have been all about turning our home into a smart home. Thatās mostly because Iāve discovered Home Assistant: a little piece of software that runs (in my case) on a Raspberry Pi and pulls together data from all the sensors and smart devices you own.
Apart from a new WiFi thermostat that I was going to buy anyway I havenāt yet spent any money at all in my quest for this – Iāve merely connected together the devices we already owned (Chromecasts; family room lights; our burglar alarm), added in some data available through various APIs (weather; internet speed; server status) and pulled location information from our phones using an app that publishes the information to my own server.
Anyway, now that I have all this information in one place I wanted an attractive way to display it in my office. Happily Iād already bought a monitor with a built-in powered USB hub from a surplus equipment sale a while back, with this kind of project in mind.
So, my Friday afternoon project today became hooking up another Raspberry Pi to this monitor and crafting a HTML dashboard for it to display. Not everything works yet, but I think itās pretty good for an afternoonās work.
(Since I didnāt remove the clock from the frame when I shot the video, I canāt pretend this thing is quick to boot. I may have manipulated the video speed at a couple of points. But anyway).
Oh, and watch this space for some home-brew smart home devices, coming soon!
The Onion Omega2 lets you add Linux to your hardware projects
This is interesting.
I have some hardware projects planned (watch this space), and Iām planning to put some NodeMCUs at the heart of them, but those are $8 each on Amazon and Iām not made of money…
The Onion Omega2 lets you add Linux to your hardware projects
Canadian auto sales slump in July, Jaguar bucks trend
Look at me, being a trend setter and whatnot.
Pokemon Go players get $12,000 in parking tickets in Ottawa
Comma.ai open-sources the data it used for its first successful driverless trips
This Tiny Router Will Kill All Your Wi-Fi Deadspots
Our house would definitely benefit from an upgraded router, and itās good to see more and more choice coming to the market.