In the first two parts of this series, I focused on building the foundation of a smart holiday home hub. In Part 1, I set up the hardware and base software stack: a Raspberry Pi 5 running Docker, Home Assistant, and Node-RED, designed to be compact, power-efficient, and easy to maintain remotely. Part 2 expanded […]
The Autonomous Holiday Home (Part 3): Self-Healing Power and Dual-WAN Failover Read Post »
In the previous post, we built the foundation of our automation system — Docker running on the Raspberry Pi, with Home Assistant, Node-RED, and Mosquitto working together.Everything is now alive and connected, but so far… it’s just a system waiting for data. Time to change that. At the vacation house, I already use a few
The Autonomous Holiday Home (Part 2): Connectivity and Sensor Monitoring with MQTT Read Post »
In the first part we learned the logic and components of the system and we configured the central component – Raspberry PI. In today’s post we’ll add some sensors and relays and we’ll integrate them with the central server via wi-fi, using the ESP8266 wireless modules. Let’s begin! Step one – Install and configure ESP8266
Create a Smart Home System with a Raspberry Pi, a few sensors and Node-RED – Part 2 Read Post »
This will be the first post out of series of posts about creating a smart home system with Raspberry Pi, different kind of sensors and the powerful visual tool for wiring sensor data – Node-RED. Node-RED is a flow-based development tool for visual programming for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new
Create a Smart Home System with a Raspberry Pi, a few sensors and Node-RED – Part 1 Read Post »
Why I need to do this?! Because I’ve made a backup of a RPi’s SD Card to a Linux VM and now I would like to restore the created image file back to the SD Card. For the moment I’m doing this only to see how should be made, my RPi still works very good,
Add a SD Card in VMWorkstation Read Post »
I think Raspbbery Pi is a great device and I love how easy and fun is to create IoT projects using it. I am using Raspberry Pi at my vacation house and also at my parents summer house. It is monitoring remotely the temperature, the voltage of batteries connected to the wind-turbine and solar-panels and
Backup your Raspberry Pi remotely Read Post »
There are cases when a remote computer could be hard to reach. This computer could be placed behind a firewall or a router (NAT) whose rules or settings cannot be changed. An easy and practical solution that could help us in this case is to set up a reverse SSH tunnel on Linux. Reverse SSH
How to Setup Reverse SSH Tunnel on Raspberry Pi behind a 3G USB Stick Modem Read Post »