During these last days, the weather went crazy in Madrid. A great snowstorm was followed by a great freeze. It was hard for our heater to catch up. But also, a perfect scenario for learning more about what is going on with temperatures inside and outside the house! Since the beginning, when I started with […]
Open source software and hardware is often hard. Contrary to proprietary and closed solutions like Apple’s, open / free alternatives are often not polished. They usually take you lots of work to make them usable. However, they give you all the power. You can do anything you want with them… Like turning a thermostat into […]
My main goal of setting an extra thermometer in the bedroom was to integrate it with my open thermostat, placed in the living room. My house is not big, but when we go to bed, we are not in the living room anymore. We want it to watch for the temperature in our bedroom. Of […]
This integration works with HestiaPi Touch ONE v1.2 These changes need the HestiaPi Touch UI to be updated with my anavi-thermometer branch. Add-ons ANAVI Thermometer publishes values in JSON. They are easy parsed in OpenHAB with the JSONPath transformation add-on. We will need to install it first Things and items ANAVI Thermometer We create a […]
One of my main concerns about placing a new display in the bedroom was light contamination. The same rule applies both to clean interfaces and when going to sleep: no distractions. Luckily, handling the screen brightness of my ANAVI Thermometer was easier and more straightforward than I imagined The first step was getting a light […]
I am pretty happy with my University education. I studied Telecommunications Engineering in Spain, which is a mix of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication Systems. I think it gave me a solid base for a broad range of topics, from the signals inside a circuit to software engineering principles. However, something I have missed […]
After setting up the mighty open source and open hardware Hestia PI in the living room, an extra thermometer in the bedroom was the next step. Hestia PI‘s does its job amazingly well during the day. But when the night comes, we don’t care about the temperature in the living room, but in the bedroom. […]
I have been recently hacking on HestiaPi‘s interface, so I could add the measures from ANAVI Thermometer to HestiaPi‘s interface. When I first tried to deploy the last version of the interface, it didn’t work It looked like a Javascript error, so I tried to see what was going on in Kweb, the browser that […]
HestiaPi looks awesome. An open software and open hardware project, Raspberry Pi based, customizable LCD touch screen, it is all you can ask as a basis for your home IoT infrastructure. It took some time to arrive though. I ordered it via Crowd Supply, a great site with wonderful open hardware gadgets and solid ethic […]
One of the first cool things you want to do with your kitchen computer is teaching it to talk. The visits come and you ask it to play music or open the roller shutters. Cool! But current solutions come with a cost. Some people don’t care if their conversations are sent to servers at the […]