iot

If you were going to have a hydroponic setup, with BSD, either for controlling it, or using it to measure metrics of the system, how would you do it? For lighting, natural lighting (through sunroofs) would be best as a supplement to additional indoor lighting. I've seen arc HID lights suggested...

I would like one of my hosts to broadcast occasional periodic signals to a shell script running on other host(s) on the same LAN. I'm currently reading about various IoT protocols, but I'm wondering what the more traditional approaches were for this kind of messaging. Ideally, I'd want some...

An opensource framework allows interoperable and inter-organizational use between different offerings (or servers). Signal can't be compared in this category, because it is simply an opensource client offered by one provider or organization, and not a standard for interoperable use: it can be...

Using ESP8266 embedded wireless boards, I've built a few wireless temperature and humidity sensors. While researching this, it appeared that MQTT was the protocol to use for this type of data. So right now, net/mosquitto is receiving the data from these sensors. With the included MQTT client...