Sean's projects, musings and general information
A central actor in my home automation system is a Smart Node. These small nodes can: Detect motion Sense temperature & humidity Indicate status with an RGB LED IR Receiver (not yet implemented in software) Parts List To build the Smart Node, you will need the following Wemos D1 Mini, or NodeMCU (Any ESP8266-based breakout… Continue Reading Home Automation Smart Node
A few years ago I wrote a handy little tool to solve a simple problem: test automated ticketing & alerting based on syslog messages. The problem was presented to me while working for a large telecommunications provider who had outsourced their fault monitoring to an off-shore consulting company. This particular company had a habit of… Continue Reading Faking Syslog Messages
AWS held an IoT Contest July 13-17 2017, and this describes my entry (which won! Woohoo!). You can see a video description of this project here. You can also see the page on hackster.io here. This project provides integration between Home Assistant, AWS IoT, and low power devices running on the ESP8266. Â The ESP8266 has… Continue Reading AWS IoT Contest