Monitoring the status of our Xiaomi Mi Vacuum robot vacuum cleaner in Grafana

If we have the wonderful and all-powerful Xiaomi robot vacuum cleaner and you want to visualize its data in a Grafana dashboard, This is your post! In it we will see how to connect to the vacuum cleaner, how we can ask you questions and obtain all kinds of interesting data, and then store it in a MySQL database that we will attack with Grafana to visualize and process these metrics.

Monitoring our Bosch Indego lawnmower with Grafana

Come, We continue with a somewhat geeky post, but if you have a garden you may be interested… The thing is, I have one of those robots that mow the lawn at home, specifically a Bosch Indego 350, and through an API given to us by the manufacturer we will be able to know the status of the lawnmower at all times, as well as having access to some interesting values; And by the way, with this API we will also be able to control it, At the end of the post we will see how to check the weather and if it is not raining, Well, we sent it to be cut 😉

Using a fingerprint reader on Raspberry Pi

Imagine the thousand possibilities that having an optical fingerprint sensor connected to a Raspberry Pi gives us, We will be able to capture and identify the information of the fingerprints that interest us and take actions based on it. In my particular case I put it at the entrance to the house, If you find my footprint or those of my family, because it opens the door without the need for keys!

Integrating SnapCast into Volumio for the best multi-room system

In the previous document we already saw how to have Volumio 2 perfectly mounted on a Raspberry Pi and we discovered how simple it is and how ideal it is to think about using it as an interface for our home audio system (For example). In this post we will see how to install SnapCast in Volumio and be able to stream to other Raspberry Pi with a speaker and make an impressive cool background music!

Riding Volumio on Raspberry Pi

I wanted to bring you closer to all those who don't know it a very interesting project, it is Volumio, A magnificent player and manager of our music, A real gem! It can be used for different projects where you require music and want an amazing interface to listen to your best music; I personally use it for the background music 🙂

Using an anemometer with Raspberry Pi

If you feel like measuring wind speed using a Raspberry Pi, This is your document! You may be thinking of setting up a weather station and this is an important issue, TRUE? We will use a script and a specific anemometer and super fast we will have it set up. Apart from, As you already know me, I will export the measurements to a MySQL database and then visualize it with Grafana!