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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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0.96″ OLED SSD1306 display and Raspberry Pi

[Update: 2019-03-30] Our reader, Paweł Kopacz, noticed that pip, setuptools and wheel are also needed Quick and visually compelling projects don’t come easy ? Naaah, just like last time – let’s get on a very nice and easy project – attaching display onto Raspberry Pi. As we were chating on the Malinowe Pi Group, Hubert Wu pointed me to a OLED 128×64 display, monochrome. With a quite decent resolution of 128×64 and based on OLED technology this is a nice 0.96 inch display. Well, my…

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SMOG = Raspberry Pi B z SDS011

[UPDATED 03-02-2018] SMOG sensor – 2,5 and 10 micro meter particles

[Last changes]: 07-11-2017: Additional data from richer stations, Open-Smog Integration 20-12-2017: USB power control on Raspberry Pi 3, thanks to reader 02-03-2018: New API from GIOŚ Poland SMOG is common nowadays in big cities. Let’s put together a working, precise own SMOG sensor, first for the 2,5 and 10 μm size particles. There is one issue – the choices are many, but only few are reliable, precise and have affordable price. Finally – after a log searching, I’ve chosen Nova Fitness SDS011: precision is OK fan…

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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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Raspberyy Pi B+

OpenVPN Raspberry Pi – split-tunnel with Internet access

Would you like to connect from any place, usually using open WiFi network in town, at friends or airport – with your’re own home network? Virtual Private Network (VPN) is here to allow you to log-in securely to your home network, with additional perk of using it to get secure Internet access. What will you need? Hardware: Rapberry Pi (A, A+ or B, B+, 2, Zero) Home Router with Port Forwarding or Virtual Server support – any will do Software: Raspbian – standard Linux distribution for…

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