ZigBee Communication Protocol Tutorial for Smart Home ZigBee is a Smart Home Communication Protocol based not on WiFi but on radio frequency that allows to connect up to 65,000 smart devices in a mesh network. Therefore large networks are possible compared to Z-Wave (232 devices) and WiFi (32 devices). In practice a ZigBee network can … Read more
Z-Wave Communication Protocol Tutorial for Smart Homes In this tutorial, you learn how the Z-Wave communication protocol for smart home work. After the technical key facts we take a closer look at Z-Wave mesh networks and why they are used in smart homes. If you want to include security devices in your home like security … Read more
HASS.io Raspberry Pi Setup Tutorial In this article I show you the easiest and fasted way to install HASS.io as well as all additional programs on a Raspberry Pi that you need for your smart home. The programs we need are the following: Home Assistant via HASS.io as overall smart home dashboard to control your … Read more
Raspberry Pi Home Assistant Docker Setup In this tutorial you learn how to install Home Assistant through Docker for your Raspberry Pi. For a full smart home system you need some additionally applications alongside Home Assistant. Therefore this tutorial includes the following installations via Docker: Home Assistant as overall smart home dashboard to control your smart … Read more
Home Assistant MQTT Tutorial In this tutorial you learn how to use Home Assistant in general and especially with MQTT data. Moreover we save the MQTT data in an InfluxDB database before creating beautiful time series dashboards with Grafana. Table of Contents Introduction to Home Assistant House Automation Software Home Assistant is an open source … Read more
Visualize MQTT Data with InfluxDB and Grafana In this tutorial we follow up a first article to build a complete DIY Smart Home indoor weather station. In this second article we want to save the published messages in an InfluxDB database and create a beautiful dashboard with Grafana. This step by step tutorial is divided … Read more
MQTT Tutorial for Arduino, ESP8266 and ESP32 In this article you learn what MQTT is and how this message protocol works. This tutorial covers the following parts: Sequence of MQTT Message Protocol Message Formats Security of the MQTT Protocol. Table of Contents MQTT stand for Message Queuing Telemetry Transport and was invented by Andy Stanford-Clark … Read more
