Category Archives: Orange Pi

Domoticz, InfluxDB, Grafana

Domoticz part 5: Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf – beautiful and easy graphs

Grafana is the answer to the nagging question we’be been asking ourselves over the years – how to quickly and nicely present our data gathered from devices. InfluxDB on the other hand is the database that is as easy and simple to use, thus making it an ideal candidate for this job. Let me show you how to quickly and easily put our data from domoticz and other devices to InfluxDB and then using Grafana – display in much more useful way than default domoticz…

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Domoticz part 8 – Stable instance of Domoticz, 24/7/365 mode – high availability at home

As a result, a both fresh and advanced user finds himself in a situation where the system – ceases to work at all, or requires frequent restarts, or worse causes quick degradation of the main storage device – which is often (micro) SD card. Is there a simple and effective solution to increase Domoticz’s availability on Raspberry Pi / Orange Pi? Sure there is! But first – before you begin – make a copy of your (micro)SD working used in domoticz instance on your Raspberry…

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PLNOG 18 Warszawa - Domoticz i DIY

PLNOG: The 18th, 19th and 22nd Polish editions – with presentations, both SildeShare and YouTube (Polish language only)

PLNOG is a conference held in Warsaw and Krakow twice a year. This is the place where IT and telco people meet. Last time I spoke about some of my experiences in building small devices, listen if want to (Polish only): During next PLNOG 19 I’m going to talk about SMOG sensor: Big Thank You to all who were present – hope you liked it! Presentation: SMOG w Grafanie (PLONOG 19 w Krakowie) from Lukasz C. Jokiel PLNOG 22, thanks for attendence and comments! PLNOG22…

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Quatas A380

Tracking airplanes with ADS-B & MLAT revisted- building a better and cheaper reciever for Flightradar 24 and Flightaware

[Update 2017-08-22 – Sharing data with friendly radars] A lot has changed since the last entry about tracking the aircraft using ADS-B messages. There are new options for data sharing, greatly simplified installation procedure and – optionally new equipment. This allows you to build a new receiver with an emphasis on simplicity, yet lower cost of purchase and maintenance with new feature (MLAT). Moreover, in addition to the aircraft you can now track other aircraft – i.e. meteorological balloons! I call that progress! What will…

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