Motorized blinds
March 24th, 2020Motorized window blinds are definitely a priority on my Home Automation wish list. Here are some links on the topic.
Motorize and Automate your Blinds for $10! (WiFi)
The Hookup Motorized MQTT Blinds (GitHub)
iblinds: Make Existing Window Blinds Smart
iBlinds Automated blinds for your Smart Home
Automated Blinds for your DIY Project by iBlinds
Home Assistant
March 24th, 2020I have started using Home Assistant for Home Automation. Here are some of the introductory links that I used to get started.
The Beginner's Guide to Home Assistant - HassIO
Awesome Home Assistant
Getting Started with Home Assistant's new User Interface
Home Automation 2019 - Getting Started
Home Assistant - Group
How to set up Lovelace on Home Assistant
Lovelace YAML Mode
Home Assistant (0.86.2) live demonstration
Floorplan now available as a Lovelace card
Home Assistant Floorplan
How to Draw a Floorplan and get a 3D picture with SweetHome3D
Z-Wave Device Specific Settings
Support for IP IR Bridges
Using IR Remote Controls in your Smart Home - Home Assistant and the Broadlink RM
Difference between scene and script?
Here are some resources for Home Assistant Dashboards
HomeAssitant Dashboard Creation
Smart Home Control Panel - Best looking and most useful component | HA Dashboard
Some additional Home Assistant links
Arduino esp8266 and MQTT
March 24th, 2020Here are a number of posts about the Arduino esp8266 and MQTT.
ESP8266: Connecting to MQTT broker
How To Use Basic MQTT on Arduino
How to use ArduinoJson with PubSubClient
Callback function and MQTT Arduino client
Strings, bytes, char arrays MQTT arghgh
What is the best MQTT Client for Pub and Sub?
On a related note - this discusses converting byte* to char[]
Is it possible to convert a byte* to char[]?
convert byte array into string
Send Anywhere - File transfer application
March 24th, 2020I had a need to be able to transfer some files and didn't want to store them on my server. I found a cross platform application called sendanywhere which has worked well.
Minecraft Watchdog Shuts Down Server
March 24th, 2020Errors like this:
2014-07-26 21:06:11 [Server Watchdog/FATAL]: A single server tick took 35.28 seconds (should be max 0.05)
2014-07-26 21:06:11 [Server Watchdog/FATAL]: Considering it to be crashed, server will forcibly shutdown.
May be resolved by this:
To set the server watchdog to a higher time or switch it off:
Set max-tick-time in server.properties to a value higher than 60000 or to -1
