Category Archives: mqtt

Tree-Tracker – Auditing a Log Harvest using IOT Edge Connect and node-red

Posted on by

At long last, Blue Water Farm is generating revenue! Around 20 acres of our land consists of dense, mature hardwood of oak, maple, and beech, and we were able to contract to sell 65 maple and 25 oak trees to a logging company. I won’t be retiring from Akamai any time soon from our logging windfall, but it’s nice to see some revenue from our land, and clearing mature trees is a part of good responsible forest management. Continue reading Tree-Tracker – Auditing a Log Harvest using IOT Edge Connect and node-red→

Making Smart Bulbs Smarter With The Power Of MQTT

Posted on by

What’s the point of smart home automation? To make every day tasks easier, of course! According to [Tomasz Cybulski], that wasn’t the case when he installed IKEA smart lights in his closet. It’s handy to have them in a common switch, in this case a remote control, but having to …read more

Continue reading Making Smart Bulbs Smarter With The Power Of MQTT→

Adventures in MQTT Part II: Identifying MQTT Brokers in the Wild

Posted on by

The use of publicly accessible MQTT brokers is prevalent across numerous verticals and technology fields. I was able to identify systems related to energy production, hospitality, finance, healthcare, pharmaceutical manufacturing, building management, … Continue reading Adventures in MQTT Part II: Identifying MQTT Brokers in the Wild→

How an Engineer Designs a DIY Energy Recovery Ventilator

Posted on by

We have no idea whether [Nick Goodey] is a trained engineer or not. But given the detailed design of this DIY energy recovery ventilator for his home HVAC system, we’re going to go out on a limb and say he probably knows what he’s doing.

For those not in the …read more

Continue reading How an Engineer Designs a DIY Energy Recovery Ventilator→

An Open Source IR Gateway Based on the ESP8266

Posted on by

The market is absolutely inundated with smart gadgets, with everything from coffee makers to TVs advertising that they support the latest and greatest in home automation platforms. Don’t worry about how many of those platforms and services will still up up and running in the next few years, the thing …read more

Continue reading An Open Source IR Gateway Based on the ESP8266→

Slack Off from Home with a Networked Jam Session

Posted on by

Those of you who were regular office dwellers before the pandemic: do you miss being with your coworkers at all? Maybe just a couple of them? There’s only so much fun you can have through a chat window or a videoconference. Even if you all happen to be musicians with …read more

Continue reading Slack Off from Home with a Networked Jam Session→

Share Your Clipboard Across Machines Using MQTT

Posted on by

Many of us regularly move from one computer to another for work, play, and hacking; every now and then finding yourself wishing you could copy something on one machine and paste on another without additional steps in between. [Ayan Pahwa] was well acquainted with this frustration, so he created AnywhereDoor, …read more

Continue reading Share Your Clipboard Across Machines Using MQTT→