January 22, 2020January 26, 2020Computing, Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things

Hacking an IotaWatt ESP8266

I need to flash the IotaWatt firmware (and write new files to […]

November 23, 2019January 24, 2021Computing, Internet Of Things

Grafana and InfluxDB on a Pi

Instructions as of late 2019! I used a Pi Zero W. This […]

July 8, 2019September 6, 2019Computing, Internet Of Things, Programming

ESP32 Development Environment – Bleeding Edge ESP-IDF v4.1 with cmake

There’s a few options to program the esp32: Arduino IDE : good. […]

June 11, 2019June 12, 2019Computing, Internet Of Things, Programming

WebApp Development for a Esp32 Arduino Sketch

AJAX or websockets will allow nicer development. I’m trying BootStrap to get […]

May 16, 2019August 3, 2019Computing, Internet Of Things

ESP32 Tricks and Tips

Time Keeping The ESP32 docs say you can set the RTC to […]

May 13, 2019January 31, 2021Internet Of Things, Timelapse

Mini Battery and Solar Powered Timelapse Camera

I wanted a small, battery-powered timelapse camera. First I tried mobile phones […]

February 16, 2019October 25, 2020Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things

Hacking the Sungrow 5 Inverter

This inverter has a WiFi connection and opens ports 80 (password protected) […]

February 16, 2019November 6, 2019Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things, Uncategorized

Access Grafana v5 via token without login screen

This works for Grafana v5. Grafana v6 has removed this functionality for […]

February 8, 2019February 17, 2019Computing, Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things

Investigating for IotaWatt, AWS, InfluxDB and Grafana

I’ve previously used EmonCMS to log power and energy data from a […]

December 12, 2018February 20, 2020Internet Of Things, Uncategorized

Remote Battery-Powered Sensor

  Like every man and this dog, I’m going to build a […]