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In previous two tutorials we learned how to set up ESP8266 with arduino IDE as temperature sensing node. Now we gonna look Node Red side of things and will create dashboard for displaying the data.

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In this part of the tutorial we will look closer the esp8266 sketch that will send the temperature info to our server.

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In this small series I will show you how to use Arduino IDE with ESP8266 and log your temperature data to the MySql server trough Node Red. And for data transmission we will use MQTT.

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Eclipse Mosquitto™ is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol. MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for “Internet of Things” messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers like the Arduino. And I will show you how to install Mosquitto to RaspberryPi

In our previous post we installed MySQL server and PhpMyAdmin. Now we gonna add new user and tables to our database using PhpMyAdmin.

With a static IP, you’ll be able to use the same IP address every time you connect to your Pi via SSH.

Before starting, make sure you have already set up and configured a way to access the command prompt. Check out my tutorial, Raspberry pi Raspbian Jessie Lite headless wifi setup tutorial   to see how to do that if you haven’t already. Lets begin. 

Once again I have to setup my pi. Because I mainly use it in headless config its quite annoying to connect it to display for setup. So anyone else having same trouble here is a small tutorial how to setup you Raspberry pi sd card for running pi headlessly with wifi. No need for monitors or keyboards on pi.

After configuring your sd card you just connect the power and ssh into your pi. Read on... 

In this tutorial I will show you how to turn Raspberry Pi into Node-Red server. Read more...

Sonoff is cool little smart switch for not only home automation but for makers and hackers also, why? It’s based on ESP8266 plus it has tx/rx pins accessible and the hardware is well documented (schematics at the end of the post).

Now concerning the Sonoff original software I got it working after around 15 minutes of messing around. For some reason the app also needed my location information, sound recording,  access to SD card and so on ….. so yeah not fishy at all. After successful pairing of the switch with app everything worked fine (around 5 minutes) until the app recommended the firmware update….. aaaand its broken. After the update the device was basically just push switch. After the update no matter what I did I could not reconnect the switch to the app.

Until now I have used Raspberry Pi with micro SD card and while it works for some times I have had lot of corruptions. Not shutting Pi properly down plus unstable power wreak havoc on the SD card. And as you may have read from my previous tutorials I like to run servers on my Raspberry Pi so yeah SQL + logging = high read write are no way to treat small SD cards.

So for loads like that there should be more robust solution.

And for that here is small write up how to use USB thumb drive or USB hard drive as your Raspberry Pi-s root drive. You still need SD card for boot but as you learn from this tutorial it is much easier to replace the static boot drive then whole system, especially  if you haven’t backed up your system 10 seconds prior to failure.

In this tutorial I will show you how you can set up your Raspberry pi as standalone headless torrent box using Deluged and how remotely manage your torrents.