Category: IOT

Connected Weighing scale using HX711 and ESP8266

HX711 and ESP8266

Since I got into Home Automation System, I have always wanted a central system with as much as information about me starting from my food habit to each and everything that can be measured or collected. You can say that it is greatly influenced by JARVIS of Iron Man which came around my Engineering days. Coming to the topic, I recently managed to connect a regular bathroom weighing scale to my Home Automation System (OpenHAB) using MQTT. So basically this post is all about how to do that. For the weighing…

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ESP32 LoRaWAN Node using Arduino

Bikash Narayan Panda

To test out the recent addition in my lab that is the LoRa gateway, I needed one LoRa node also. LoRa modules are available to be used with Arduino as well as Raspberry Pi and are pretty cheap too. However, you can get complete LoRa module with ESP32 and OLED display at pretty low price from Banggood, and they fit the purpose. And by using these, you don’t need to jumble around jumpers. In this post, I have covered how to make a simple, cheap LoRa node that can send…

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IOT: Power outlet controlled from internet using WeMOS

Bikash Narayan Panda
IOT Based Power Outlet

This is a simple project to make IOT enabled power outlet. This video is around WeMOS and demonstrates how to use WeMOS with thingspeak to control some loads in my home. This project lets you control your devices which you need to connect to the output sockets. As an online server, I have used Thinspeak.com but you can use any server but you just need REST API. Check out the video to get started. Bikash Narayan PandaDeveloper, Tinkere, a proud Dad.. love to spend my available time playing with Tech!!…

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IOT With Raspberry Pi using JAVA

IOT_Pi

This post features videos that I published to my YouTube channel in the series “IOT with Raspberry Pi “. This basically contains 4 videos around raspberry pi that show how to use Raspberry Pi as an IOT device. It starts from interfacing sensor to publishing the sensor data to cloud server using protocols like REST or MQTT. For the entire project I have used JAVA and on top of that used various libraries for specific tasks like Pi4J, Unirest, Eclipse PAHO etc (Links provided below). If you have watched any of the videos you…

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Control any load over Internet/ based on Temp. & Humidity | SONOFF TH10

SONOFF TH10

SONOFF TH10 /TH16 is a smart switch version of Sonoff which can monitor and set temperature and humidity through the iOS/Android APP eWeLink. Just as the name indicates, the Sonoff TH device supports two current supply specifications: 10A or 16A. It features presetting the range for temperature or humidity. When the temperature or humidity of the environment falls within the range, it will automatically turn on or off the connected devices. It supports three kinds of temperature and humidity sensors AM2301, DS18B20, DHT11 Source: http://bit.ly/2lCttDp (ITEAD)

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