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Updated:October 3, 2020 By steve

VLANS on Home Networks

In the early days of networking splitting a network into segments required a router. VLANS or Virtual LANS is a

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Updated:June 24, 2020 By steve

Smart Homes and MQTT

Because the HTTP protocol is most common protocol on the Internet it has become the main protocol for controlling first

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Updated:December 4, 2020 By steve

How to Install Mosquitto on The Raspberry Pi

Mosquitto is a very lightweight broker and a Raspberry Pi can easily cope with MQTT traffic on clients on a

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Updated:December 26, 2020 By steve

Smart Home Thermostats and How They Work

Smart home thermostats are probably one of the most common smart home devices. In this tutorial we will look at

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Updated:December 26, 2020 By steve

Configuring Networking on The Raspberry Pi

There are a number of common requirements that require configuration. They are: Static IP address DNS settings Gateway Settings Wi-Fi

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Updated:February 9, 2021 By steve

Introducing the Smart Home Simulator

If you are looking at: Getting Familiar with Smart Home APis Learning how to control smart home devices Developing dashboards

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Updated:October 7, 2020 By steve

Monitoring Your Internet Connection With Node-Red

How reliable is your internet connection? Do you often experience drop outs? In this node-red project we will create a

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Updated:February 10, 2021 By steve

Controlling Smart Home Devices

A smart home device can be considered to be made up of three major Components. Connectivity Control Protocol Control App

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Updated:November 2, 2020 By steve

Understanding Smart Home APIs

How do you control your smart home device? Well regardless of the wireless technology (Wi-Fi,ZigBee etc) or the application protocol

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Updated:October 7, 2020 By steve

Monitor Internet Speeds with Speedtest-cli and Node-Red

Speedtest-cli is a command line tool by Ookia which is available for Windows,Linux and Mac. The install instructions are available

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