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Engineer’s dream – Wemos D1 mini pro arrived

New toys

It will be short this time. I have just received new set of toys from Nettigo.pl – ESP8266 chip with a few boards. At first glance it is very promising and allows for nice boxing of chips.

Unboxing Wemos D1 mini Pro - ESP8266
Wemos D1 mini Pro

What’s inside:

  • ESP8266 chip
  • temperature sensor DS18B20
  • DHT11 humidity sensor
  • SD card reader
  • LiPo charger
  • button
  • some proto boards
  •  OLED 0.66″ display

and more…

 

This time I am preparing some (again) weather station with openHAB integration. I will post updates with code, diagram and links to some materials if you are interested 🙂

Smarthome server change – openHAB

Background

For quite long time I have been using my “so called” smart home system based on Z-Wave device (around 20 pieces) with RazBerry and software from its web page. Additionally I used several plugins and mobile phone app on iPhone. How was it? Not bad – I could monitor house parameters, active some scenes… But I missed like hell a few features:

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