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Nextion Talking Thermostat

October 13, 2015March 20, 2017 Peter Scargillnextion, Raspberry Pi 2, Scargill24 Comments

Yes, I changed the title. As often happens with these things, I got carried away. The Nextion display is a touch-sensitive intelligent display. Essentially, you buy the display and you program it with a free editor serially – which lets you easily place icons, buttons, images, text, gauges and more…

ESP8266 and MQTT Exciting Times

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 Peter ScargillEclipse, ESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-201, ESP12, ESP8266, MQTT, Openhab, Scargill, WIFI, Windows 812 Comments

I don’t want to jump in prematurely here but those of you who have been reading the blog will know that I’ve had no end of problems with the MQTT stand-alone software on the ESP8266, but as each problem has emerged, the author (Minh Tuan) has been keeping in touch…