With my second year of rentals complete, I've started to look at improvements. There are a few pain points I set out to solve: I decided to drop the spreadsheet and use Wave instead. Wave is a free online accounting software. It's meant for running a…
This post details the software for the ESP8266 controller. See the previous post for a rundown on the hardware. Here's the high-level stack: And functionality: I won't go into the code here, that's best looked at via the bitbucket link above. Instead, I just cover…
Locating things is a pain A common reason why IoT devices rely on a cloud service is to ease the installation process. The problem is finding your IoT device on your LAN after you've got it connected to your WiFi. By both the device and…