Internet of Things Archives - Scargill's Tech Blog

The Spanish Project

May 4, 2018May 10, 2018 Peter ScargillBlynk, Internet of Things9 Comments

Over time, I’ve trialled many mobile user interfaces for my home control endeavours, from Blynk, through MQTT Dashboard (and variations), Imperihome and the Node-Red dashboard (not to mention its predecessor Node-Red-Contrib-UI). For a while I settled on Imperihome but they were dead set on focussing on supporting every device known…

New Provider

June 30, 2015July 7, 2015 Peter ScargillInternet of Things3 Comments

Regular readers will know that we’ve been having some capacity issues here at tech.scargill.net with our old provider “Unlimited Hosting” who turned out to be FAR from unlimited – and if you’re reading this – we’re now up and running with a new provider – Smart Hosting – not without…

Home Control The Next Step

April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 Peter ScargillC Programming, ESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP12, ESP8266, Internet of Things, MQTT, Node Red, Raspberry Pi 2, WIFI4 Comments

As regular readers will know I’ve pretty much gotten to grips with the whole home control thing having after much research settled on a largely MQTT-based setup using the excellent new Raspberry Pi2 as a hub with Node-Red. Though it could just as easily have been any proper Linux or…

ESP826 + Pi + MQTT + Node-Red Heaven

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015 Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-03, ESP-07, ESP-12, ESP12, ESP8266, Internet of Things, LEDs, NETio, Node, Node Red5 Comments

If you’ve been following the blog you’ll note I’ve spent a lot of time getting to grips with the Raspberry Pi, Node-Red, the ESP chips using C and of course my earlier home control attempts with NETIO, the NRF24L01 boards and Arduino clones (all of which are working 24/7 –…