On a journey through the latest hardware and software integrations
As I covered in depth in my previous post Raspberry Pi Official PoE-HAT – FAIL! If you want to use the USB Ports (last updated: 27 October 2018) the initial release of the PoE HAT was rather problematic leading to the Raspberry Read More …
I’ve been awaiting the release of the official PoE HAT since the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (March 2018) where the introduction of the extra 4 pin header hinted that a PoE HAT would follow shortly after. It Read More …
I’ve recently been looking at how to simplify how non-programmers can start to create home automation solutions and stumbled across Node-RED, something which provides some elements of flow-gramming that was available from Octoblu, (which looks to have fallen out of Read More …
Installation of my multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting project is now complete. Taking the low cost approach has had some drawbacks, but I’m pleased with the overall result. If you didn’t read my previous posts (part 1, part 2a and part 2b) the Read More …
This post is a follow up from Part 1 of my series of posts covering the installation of a multi-zone WiFi Controlled LED lighting system. In the previous post I explained by decision to use Magic Home based lighting controllers Read More …
Following on from Part 1 of this series on creating a multi-zone LED lighting system, I wanted to share an update on a couple of areas that I couldn’t completely cover due to awaiting delivery of the components. In this Read More …
I’m starting on a project to add WiFi Controlled LED perimeter strip lights to a bedroom. I thought I’d capture this project in a series of posts, starting first with the decisions around what to use for this project. Whilst Read More …
The rate of change in internet connected devices continues to accelerate, with new devices, platforms and “things” appearing all the time. Home Automation has been an area I’ve dabbled in on and off over the past few years, recently I’ve Read More …
Many of you will already know, but I wanted to share the good news here too. At Citrix Synergy 2016, Citrix announced it has partnered with Viewsonic and Micro Center to produce a sub $100 thin client platform, the Citrix Read More …
The new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was released on 29 February 2016 one of the new features is built in Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) aka BLE. To test it out, I needed a BLE device, the only one I had to hand Read More …