Tagged “IoT”

My new home came with some solar panels and a Delta Solivia inverter. I'm envious of new inverters that give you cool graphs and statistics on your phone. Can I make my own wifi bridge to push solar power data to my Home Assistant controller?

How do you know if you received that data correctly or whether your saved settings actually saved properly? By using a fast and easy CRC check, that's how! Here's a quick guide on performing CRC checks on data with your favourite microcontroller.

After moving house, I was having really bad signal issues with my Zigbee devices that I used in my smart home. After researching and fiddling around a lot, I fixed it and learned some skills along the way! Here's how I did it.

I'm terrified of accidentally leaving the garage door open. Lets see if I can watch and control it from my smart home?

IoT devices use MQTT for a lot of things, but why is it so difficult when they use MQTT to send files, pictures, and videos?