Author: ktinkerer

Adding Octoprint Progress to a Conky Desktop

ktinkerer | July 11, 2017

This uses the MQTT plugin so you will need to have an MQTT broker setup on your system. Install the Octoprint MQTT plugin and set it up according

Raspberry Pi

Adding Reboot and Shutdown Commands to the Raspberry Pi AIY Projects Google Assistant

ktinkerer | May 25, 2017

UPDATE! The Google AIY Project have now pulled my commands to do this into the official repository https://github.com/google/aiyprojects-raspbian so if you use the most up to date version

MQTT

MQTT Publish for Raspberry Pi AIY Projects

ktinkerer | May 19, 2017

I have a lot of things in my house connected using a Raspberry Pi mosquitto broker and Node-RED so I wanted to add simple publish commands to my

Raspberry Pi

Add a Working Timer to the AIYProject.

ktinkerer | May 10, 2017

Another post about my AIYProject box, I’m having great fun this week playing with this. I noticed that if you try to set a timer on the box

Node-RED

Node-RED with Pushbullet Interactions

ktinkerer | March 31, 2017

It’s really easy to set up Node-RED to send and receive alerts from Pushbullet. The node is available here, and can be installed with npm install node-red-node-pushbullet Configure

Node-RED

Using Node-RED to trigger IFTTT events

ktinkerer | March 28, 2017

I recently set up a Node-RED node that can interact with IFTTT. The node interacts with the Maker Channel on IFTTT and allows you to either send or receive messages to IFTTT.

ESP8266

MQTT Connected NodeMCU Weather Station

ktinkerer | March 24, 2017

I’ve been working on a simple weather station for the garden using a NodeMCU dev kit. Originally I was going to use an arduino but once I started

NodeMCU

Easily Setup Wifi on NodeMCU using Enduser Setup

ktinkerer | March 9, 2017

I’ve been trying out the NodeMCU DevKit boards and found that it’s a great choice for projects that need wifi access. The boards are based on the ESP8266

Node-RED

Controlling Remote Sockets with a Raspberry Pi and Node-RED

ktinkerer | September 29, 2016

I wanted to be able to remotely switch a lamp on and off, mostly to make it look like we are in. We’d previously used a simple timer

Node-RED

Setting up Node-RED to interact with a Telegram Bot

ktinkerer | September 5, 2016

Node-RED can interface with a Telegram Bot which enables you to send messages directly from Node-RED to Telegram. To do this first set up a Telegram Bot. You