Posts about home automation

The Western Digital (WD) My Cloud EX2 Ultra is a high performance, pre-configured, 2-bay Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Here’s a quick introduction. More…

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ESP8266 5V Wi-Fi relay switch modules are Wi-Fi enabled, relay power switches with an ESP-01 board. They can be controlled wirelessly from smart devices. More…

Categories Electronics

Tags ESP microcontrollerESP-01ESP8266EasyTCPFTDI USB/UART moduleRelay ModulesSongleSwitcheselectronic moduleelectronicshome automationrelaysspecswi-fiwireless switches

Cron is an Unix-like operating system software utility used to schedule automatic time-based commands. Entered commands can be in the form of Bash or Bash scripts that are meant to be automatically executed periodically at fixed times, dates or intervals. More…

Categories Raspbian

Tags BashCronLinuxPythonRaspberry PiRaspbianhome automationschedulingssmtp

Magnetic door sensors, also called reed switches, are sensors that use a magnet to establish whether a door is open or closed. More…

Categories Electronics

Tags ArduinoSwitchesdigital readelectronic moduleelectronicshome automationmagnetic door sensors

sshpass is a Linux software package that can be used to establish a direct (secure) connection between two Linux operated computers. This connection allows ‘remote’ access to a ‘local’ computer to run commands ‘locally’. Communicating between 2 Raspberry Pi’s using sshpass will show you how. More…

Categories Raspbian

Tags LANLinuxRaspberry PiRaspbianSCPSSHhome automationhome web servernetwork protocolssshpass