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In this series of posts I describe my journey of automating a heating system in my suburban home. This particular post is about a simple, but fully functional thermostat that uses a PID controller to maintain a target room temperature. I use this thermostat with an OpenTherm gas boiler, but most of the ESPHome confi...

Most people have probably experienced the frustration of weak Wi-Fi signals. Even getting a network to cover every corner of a fairly modest house can be a challenge. That’s not a problem for Wi-Fi technology developed by the Australian startup Morse Micro, which just demonstrated a Wi-Fi signal with a 3-kilometer r...

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on UnsplashAs Simon Sinek recommends, let’s start with why. Why WASM, why orchestration, and why visual data flows?Data flows, data pipelines, and ETL processes tend to become very complex very quickly, especially in IoT. There are protocols, data formats, transformations, aggregations, clean ...