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…

Categories Electronics

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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 a Unix-like operating system software utility used to schedule automatic time-based computer commands. The Raspberry Pi can also use Cron. More…

Categories Raspbian

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

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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