[Colchester] continued ESP8266 and MQTT

[Martyn]

I've long had a plan to learn how to use and program a Raspberry Pi, 
Arduino or Asus Tinker board for a project I have in mind, but my main 
job running my Electrical maintenance business has me tied in knots most 
weeks.
I am now looking to sell the business after buying a different business 
in a completely different sphere, so we shall see if I can claw some 
free time back.

Your plans going forward sound interesting and as much as I love playing 
with Linux my main OS has been W10 due to needing (a stable) Quickbooks 
for the business.
Agian, with my new business plans I can go back to Linux because it'll 
all be web based.

We shall see.

Martyn


On 01/09/2019 18:50, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote:
> Heck this bit belongs on the mailing list, it's interesting...
>
> Yes I used (who hates me top posting?) MQTT with the Raspberry PI on a 
> prototype in 2017. It was pretty cool and I used Node-RED to program 
> it. A very cool setup which other members maybe interested in trying.
>
> I always give my PI the best possible SD card so as to shorten the 
> time it spends writing to it. If the power goes off mid-write then the 
> system can be screwed.
> They are cool but perhaps not the best devices for a finished product. 
> I toy with reflashing one of those Android MXQ TV boxes but you know 
> how it is with reflashing stuff, its a different challenge for every 
> different version of the same box.
>
> With the website I'm really imagining one where each member can create 
> a section. A bit like how WikiPedia was before Jimmy took away our 
> ability to edit it.
>
> On 01/09/2019 18:15, Stewart Larner wrote:
>> They are great little devices. Many more things I want to do with 
>> them just don’t have the time.
>>
>> Basicly the ESP’s talk to the server using MQTT (Mosquito)
>>
>> I’ve given up with raspberry pi’s it kills the memory cards just 
>> becomes annoying.
>>
>> I would happily write up what I’ve done for the website or a wiki.
>>
>> Stewart
>>
>> On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 at 17:17, Wayland Sothcott <wayland at sothcott.co.uk 
>> <mailto:wayland at sothcott.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     I know very little about home automation but it's an area I'm
>>     going to need to get very good at. Those ESP8266 things are
>>     amazing, so cheap and so Linuxy.
>>     I did do a prototype project using something called Mosquito for
>>     communicating with sensors on a PI.
>>
>>     You should post this on the main mailing list.
>>
>>     Perhaps the website should be done as a Joomla, a WiKi or a
>>     Wordpress so that projects can be written up and contributed to.
>>     If everyone adds their bit then we will have quite a manual for a
>>     wide range of projects.
>>
>>     How's the PI controlled Air suspension on the VW?
>>
>>     On 01/09/2019 17:07, Stewart Larner wrote:
>>>     I’m still around!
>>>
>>>     I’ve been using Linux quite a bit recently on a little home
>>>     project. VMware server with Debian (one my all time favourites)
>>>
>>>     This is using HomeAssistant and many nodemcus (ESP8266)
>>>     controlling leds/heaters/ceiling lights.
>>>
>>>     Spent a lot of time making it work!
>>>
>>>     Stewart
>>>
>
>
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