There are many aspects of IOT/connected devices that appeal to me. I like looking at data, it’s interesting. I like automation, it can be fun, and convenient. Unfortunately there are many aspects of the current IOT landscape that are extremely unappealing. Universally, not just to me . The obvious solution then is to build my own :)
And that’s what I’ve started doing. Over the past five years, little by little, as I’ve wanted to do something, I’ve put something together, based on what I’ve got lying around. Originally I was making use of a web-based server to store and gather all my data, but got annoyed each time the internet cut off. In hindsight it’s not clear to me why I was experiencing so many connectivity issues at the time that I decided the best option was to host something locally, but that’s where we are today.
The server is a Raspberry Pi. One that I had lying around, and I already had submitting temperature and air pressure data to my server. The server was just a shared hosting site with a few basic php commands to link up with a sql database. To provide some flexility, allow for some customization and make up for my large lack of web-dev experience, I chose to do it all in python. I’m using the CherryPy library to present a basic html web-interface that gives me a summary of what’s going on, and also handles a