There’s one great little (or possibly quite big) company in China, making the absolute greatest devices for tinkerers. It’s called ITEAD and they have just sent me 2 of their latest devices to test (thanks…
After installing your new, shiny, macOS update you might have found out like me that plugging in any device that relies on a CH340/CH340G/CH341 device (like the ESP8266 based Wemos D1 Mini) immediately throws a…
If you ever played with Meteor, you most likely started adding routes so you have various pages in your project. If you started getting more serious with your project you added user authentication and then…
Hopefully you already skimmed through part 1 of the Sonoff trilogy (or maybe quadrilogy? ) that tells you all about the Sonoff, what it is, what it can do, how to put the firmware on…
What’s a “Sonoff”? you ask Is it sold at Ikea? No, this is not sold at Ikea:) The Sonoff is a very small module, basically a wifi enabled wireless switch, based on the ESP8266 chip…
This is one thing I’ve been meaning to do for a long time for my little ESP8266 library and finally got around to doing it. Continuous Integration automated builds using Travis CI. For Arduino. For…
I wanted to have a few portable and long lasting temperature and possible humidity sensors I could just throw around hand have them working with as little hassle as possible. Enter the Battery Powered ESP8266…
Do you have an emonTX, emonTH or any other serial printing sensor node that you wish was internet enabled? This might help then. What is it This is a small ESP8266 (Arduino IDE support) sketch…
This post is just a note/reminder on how to enable ports on the low write emonhub / emonpi raspberry pi prebuilt image so you can then access the already installed MQTT Mosquitto server The Mosquitto…
Stuck while making a Node-RED custom node? Been there, done that and after going through a lot of webpages, group posts and documentation I came up with solutions, if not perfect at least workable. I…
15th Jan 2017