Mar 15

How to install Homie libraries on Arduino IDE

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series esp8266

Reading time: < 1 minute The steps that explain how to install Homie libraries and its dependencies on the official documentation are a little bit tricky and some of you asked me about how I did it. So I decided to record a clip explaining the steps:

Please tell if it was useful for you, and thanks for your interest.

Local copy of the video:

Mar 01

Video of the conference about my Smart Home in the IT Arena (Lviv,UA)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series itarena17

Reading time: < 1 minute Finally I have the chance to share with you the video of the conference that I gave some months ago. Remember it was about my low cost home automation systems, may be the most interesting thing will be that most of the presentation is a real time demostration aobut how I create those systems.

If you want to take a look of the presentation slides:

I hope it was interesting, or useful for you.

Oct 17

Using Homie for a temperature sensor

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series esp8266

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The second episode of ESP8266 programming series. In the next video I describe how to code a firmware for ESP8266 using Arduino IDE. The purpose of that firmware is create a temperature sensor and publish the reading in a MQTT broker.

Schema of the system:

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Pictures of the system, I used ESP12E Devkit and some cheap parts:

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References in Aliexpress where I bought the hardware:

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Firmware source code is publishied in my github account: temperature sensor source code for ESP8266.

Oct 04

Conference: Smart Home using low cost components at IT Arena, Lviv (UA)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series itarena17

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Last weekend I talked on IT Arena event organized in Lviv (Ukraine) at Lviv Arena Stadium created for the Football Eurocup of 2012. It was a very good and well organized event, it was a privilege to participate. I gave a presentation about the automation’s that I created latest years at home thanks to the open software and open hardware. The second part of the presentation was a demonstration about how to set up some IoT devices created ad-hoc.

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If you want to review the slides, they are available at slideshare.

Conference was recorded but for a while I don’t have the video clip, if I can get access to the video I’ll upload it to youtube and referenced here. Anyway I created a photo album that you can review in LVIV trip pictures photo album.

IT Arena Oriol' speech

Finally I want to give thanks to Mykhaylo Kramarenko because thanks to his invitation I had that great opportunity. Thanks to Marta Maksym to take care of my trip and accommodation. Thanks to organizers for the 3G SIM card with data and free calls, next time a micro-SIM card will be perfect for my mobile phone XD and last but not least a lot of thanks to Denis Kolesnikov for his guided visit to the Lviv center, really nice place I’ll go back to visit it properly.

Jul 13

Conferència Summer Camp Garrotxa 2015: SmartHome usant Arduino, Raspberry PI i més

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Aquest cap de setmana vaig tornar a donar la meva conferència sobre “SmartHome” en aquesta ocasió vaig introduïr la novetat del sistema de feedback basat en “Tasker + Auto-notification”, a més de l’execusió de tasques basades en “crontab”. També he inclòs un petit avanç sobre el nou projecte en el que estic treballant per tal d’integrar les dades del descalcificador dins del OpenHAB usant una webcam i OpenCV per processar les imatges optingudes.

Agraïr al Xavi, Gerardo i la Laura per haver-me donat aquesta oportunitat. Tant el SCG15 com el SAX2015 són events molt familiars a més l’entorn és espectacular. Tot un descobriment del que malgrat tenir referències no havia pogut disfrutar en primera persona.

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Apr 19

Conference: SmartHome using Arduino, Raspberry PI and more

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I did this conference twice but this time it’s in English as I said before in Catalan, this is how I’m getting real a childhood dream. Thanks to open hardware like Arduino and Raspberry PI and open source software like OpenHab I have a smarthome with several automations. Last Thursday I spoke in “IoT Barcelona meetup” sharing my personal experience automating my house.

If you lost it and you want to watch the presentation video is here:

and the presentations slides are here:

Feb 18

Conferència: SmartHome usant Arduino, Raspberry PI i més

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El dia 12 de febrer al vespre vaig fer una conferència a la FIB (Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona) dins de la UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). En aquesta xerra vaig estar explicant com vaig convertint en realitat un somni que vaig tenir quan era petit, estic parlant de domotitzar la casa. Gràcies a enginys com l’Arduino i la Raspberry PI a més d’aplicacions com l’OpenHab podem fer assequible allò que si anem a grans marques comercials es fa caríssim pel meu pressupost.

En aquest enllaç podeu trobar les transparències de:  SmartHome usant Arduino Raspberry i més i el video el teniu disponible al servidor de la FIB.

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Espero els vostres feedbacks als comentaris, desitjo que ús sigui útil.