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Updated:February 21, 2021 By steve

Home Automation Timer with Node-Red

One of the most common requirements in home automation is to schedule an event at a particular time. For example

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Updated:April 1, 2021 By steve

Using Zigbee2MQTT- A Beginners Guide

Zigbee2MQTT is a nodejs Gateway application that connects Zigbee networks to MQTT networks. It is run from the command line

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Updated:December 22, 2020 By steve

Controlling the Tasmota SonOff Switch with HTTP and Node-Red

Tasmota devices can be controlled by both HTTP and MQTT. If you don’t have an MQTT broker or don’t want

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Updated:December 22, 2020 By steve

Using HTTP To Control Smart Home Devices

HTTP is currently probably the most widely used control protocol on home networks. To troubleshoot control problems, and to develop

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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: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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