IoT Projects

Removing an IoT Fan from its Cloud

We’re seeing more and more of these types of projects where a user wants to “free” a commercially available smart device from its proprietary network. This writeup, posted by GitHub user Ouaibe, outlines their process of reverse engineering a Dreo “Smart Fan” to free it from its commercial servers. - GitHub

Water Tank Level With Node-RED Dashboard and InfluxDB on Synology NAS

MichaelH3777 needed a way to check the level of their underground water tank to manage water usage. A Raspberry Pi monitors the water level using a submersed 4-20ma sensor and sends MQTT messages over WiFi to Node-RED which is running on a Synology NAS. - Adafruit Blog

Turning a 10-year-old tablet into a digital photo frame for Google Photos

Last weekend, Pankaj Tanwar built a digital photo frame, from a decade-old tablet. It cycles through photos from a shared Google Photos album, switching up the display every hour. - Pankaj Tanwar’s Blog

IoT News and More!

Adafruit is Moving to Brooklyn!

That’s right folks – we’re heading to Brooklyn! Orders will take approximately 7-10 business days to ship while we get our factory set up in Industry City. Please note, delivery estimates provided at checkout are not delivery guarantees. The Adafruit team thanks our customers and community for all their orders and patience. - Adafruit Blog

Is Matter The One Smart Home Standard to Rule Them All?

Ovyl’s Michael Eatherly writes about the Matter smart home standard. - ovyl.io

5 ways IoT Consumer Devices Are Disappointing Users

Survey results from Memfault found the five ways consumer IoT devices are disappointing users are: Slow or bad connectivity issues, lost connectivity issues, battery charge issues, lack of trust in the parent company, and bad user interfaces (mobile, web, and/or embedded). globalspec

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Here at Adafruit, we sell all of these amazing components, but we couldn’t find a good way to interact with them over the Internet. So, we decided to create our own IoT platform, and that’s Adafruit IO. It’s built from the ground up to be easy to use and platform agnostic (connect any development board or device!). For those who want to get a project off the ground without programming - Adafruit IO offers a No-Code interface for building IoT electronics projects using WipperSnapper, our open-source IoT firmware. Support Adafruit’s open-source development by subscribing to Adafruit IO Plus, the upgraded, all-systems-go version of the Adafruit IO service.