Original article @ www.chindemax.com I frequently forget to put salt in my water softener and as an IoT solution I sometime back came up with a small circuit that would let me check the Salt level remotely on my laptop or mobile, and push Email/SMS Alerts when the salt level…

Original article @ www.chindemax.com I have a couple of CyberPwoer UPSs and to monitor them through Nagios I’ve been uisng some custom Nagios plugins I’ve written sometime back. CyberPower UPSs can be monitored uisng the pwrstat utility uisng their PowerPanel software but it will not work with other UPS brands…

Original article @ www.chindemax.com After my last post on processing the RF Signals using nodered, I wanted to write on some more MQTT processing functions that I use in my home. I have several Sonoff S31 (Power Monitoring) Smart plugs that I have flashed with Tasmota firmware and connected to…

Original article @ www.chindemax.com I have been using a Sonoff RF bridge in my network to connect the 433MHz RF devices I have with the home network. In fact, there are two of these in my home to provide better coverage for the 433MHz devices. I flashed the Sonoff RF…

Original Article @ www.chindemax.com I have a HomeAssiatnt (Hass.io to be specific) instance running as a VM in my network and there are some ESPHome devices (ESP8266s) scattered around the house doing various measurements and pushing data to Home Assistant. …