There’s a neat looking Xiaomi LYWSDCGQ sensor with a display which shows temperature and humidity of it’s environment. We’ll use a BLE capable Raspberry Pi to read out the sensor’s data.
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There’s a way to allow your Pi to provide as much power to the connected USB devices as possible. Let me show you how.
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Currently there are two Raspberry Pi types which come with built-i WiFi modules: the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi Zero W. I’ll show you how to use them “headless”.
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Xiaomi MiFlora is a cost-effective plant sensor, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to communicate wirelessly, and is capable of sensing temperature, soil humidity, light, soil fertility and it’s own battery level.
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There’s a feature in network cards, which allows to power on a PC if a certain “magic packet” is received on the physical (MAC) address of the network interface.
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The RTL8188eu WiFi chip is not supported in Raspbian Lite out of the box, so we need a few things to make it work, but I’ll show you how. (more…)
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