Tag: GPIO

Putting Tasmota in a SonOff with a Raspberry Pi

Well, after a while tinkering with these wonderful devices, I wanted to share with you some steps that you may need. The SonOffs are small Wifi modules based on ESP8266 with a relay. Ideal for remotely controlling a lamp… or whatever we need to turn off and on remotely. In this post we will see how to flash them and change the firmware and install Tasmota with a Raspberry Pi; sincerely, I found it to be the simplest option of all the ones I tried and it works with all SonOffs.

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!

Measuring atmospheric pressure with Raspberry Pi

If we want to know and monitor atmospheric pressure in a cheap way… How could you not… This is your document! We can do it quickly with a Raspberry Pi and a sensor that barely goes beyond the 2 Euros! In this post we will see all the steps you will need to achieve it, Also as always… we will store the measurements in a MySQL database and then we will visualize the values with beautiful graphs thanks to Grafana!