Technical blog to share ideas about Home Automation and other things.
Sometime is not necessary to go sophisticated for some applications but at the same time, "easy is not always easy".
Here an interesting problem.
An old puppet contained a timer to turn on a LED for few minutes.
The goal is to replace the broken circuit.
After building a prototype some more considerations did come up from testing and installation planning.
In this article some notes about to do so from the Arduino environment.
After designing and building the first prototype for the automatic bathroom Fan controller, was time to install it in the bathroom.
Here few notes about what I did.
Ok, here a quick and dirty project.
The idea is to build a bathroom fan controller.
One of the bathroom I have has no windows, only a fan to remove the humidity.
I'm tired to have manually to turn it on and off, so time to make this automatic.
Let see in more details how to put together the basic internet speed monitor contraption.
This article discuss setting up the Raspberry Pi.
Recently my connection with the provider for internet, has some problems.
Running some speed tests from different computers shows really erratic results.
I should have something about 12 Mbit/s downstream and 2 Mbit/s upstream, some tests shows up to 15 Mbit/s-1.5 Mbit/s, others down to 1 Mbit/s-0.25Mbit/s
Not easy to pin point the nature of the problem.
This article is more to discuss strategies and ways to approach a problem rather than describe in detail what is done (also if there is something about that too in it).
The Adafruit Trinket M0 is a small microcontroller from Adafruit, successor of the Adafruit Trinket (3V and 5V) and it can be programmed using Arduino IDE.
Are now years I'm using a program called Ha-Bridge that basically simulate a Philips Hue hub.
The peculiarity of this program is that can be recognized by Alexa and it can control my X10 lights via Heyu. I did set up this system in the 2016, as described in the article of this blog Playing with Alexa and Echo
