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Home automation dialogues
Is there an available dataset from home automation conversational agent vendors such as Amazon-Alexa or Google Home.
I want a dataset where there are dialogues and knowledge bases of IoT devices ...
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NodeMCU (ESP8266) board controlled over shared hosting database
I have a NodeMCU (ESP8266) board that I want to control over the internet. I am trying to find a solution where I don't have to set up any configurations on my router like port forwarding. I came up ...
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How enrollment list in Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service isolate tenant specific configuration?
Some documentation and videos regarding Device Provisioning Service (DPS) says it can handle multitenancy but, it seem there is a confusion about how one tenant's configuration/data is isolated from ...
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connect a device automatically without configuring at iot platform end
My main goal is to connect devices but only with an access token and not by manually adding devices to the cloud IoT platform
Is there a platform to do that automatically? How to do it/Which platform ...
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Monitor Energy Usage
I would like to monitor energy usage of various appliances in my house. I hope to put a plug adaptor in which records the power usage. These are available commercially very cheaply, but often only ...
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Add delays to Google Home routines
I have a new Google Home Mini and I'm looking to add a lot of customization to it and the devices connected to it. The built in "routines" seems quite limited, the main thing I want to do is ...
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Cannot connect SensorTag cc2650 to IBM watson IoT platform using their android app
I have SensorTag cc2650 from Texas Instruments with their android app installed in my Phone. I am getting an exception while connecting IBM Watson IoT. It worked fine with quick-start service but ...
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Should there be one device provisioning service for one IoT hub if it is associated with one tenant?
I have a multi-tenancy situation where I have created one IoT hub per tenant.
Now if I have 5 tenants, and I create 5 Iot hub, should I also create 5 device provisioning service for those 5 IoT hubs (...
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How to provision large scale of IoT devices with multitenancy as a major concern in Azure IoT?
I am using Azure sphere device with Azure device provisioning service (DPS) to connect to IoT hub.
I know DPS is a good way to handle provisioning in multitenancy but, let's say I have 1000 Azure ...
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Adding a webserver to eth2wifi example for ESP32
I am interested in using ESP32-EVB from Olimex to run the eth2wifi from esp-iot-solution, using the wifi softap data forwarding demo.
If I correctly understand the code, it just moves packets from ...
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Where to get ADK and CSR documentation
I just purchased the CSR8675 Development Kit (DK-CSR8675-10197-2A) from Digi-Key. For the life of me, I can't figure out where to get the full documentation of the development kit, software ...
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How to find iBeacon Triggering Apps for IoT Devices Unrelated to Marketing?
I hope this an OK question to ask. I know it's a bit meta and vague, but hear me out...
Ever since iBeacon technology came out, I've been hunting for reliable iOS apps that can trigger actions on a ...
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Connecting ESP to USB Port
I have a question about connection from board ESP to USB Port. I can not connect to this port although I setup driver.
I use ESP-WROVER-KI. Run on MacOS 10.14
Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Traceback (...
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How to display the data on thingspeak using nodemcu?
I am new to the concept of nodemcu and thingspeak. I am doing a project on irrigation. I need to send data to thingspeak through the nodemcu.
The code I uploaded in the nodemcu is shown below:
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ZModo Cameras - read camera signal
I recently bought a zmodo camera, namely the ZP-IBH15-W. I'm noticing they disabled the webapp and support a PC and Mobile App. However I'm looking for a way to view the image through a standard ...
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How to recover "lost" ZWave device on Samsung Smartthings
I have added a new ZWave device on my Samsung Smartthings Hub v3. At first, everything worked fine, but then the device disappeared.
The device is not in any home or room.
However, if I go into the ...
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Re-link Google Home Account with Assistant Pi on Raspbian
I installed the Google Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3+ and it works perfectly.
I see the Raspberry in my Google Home App and I can configure some features. However, by mistake, I have unlinked from ...
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How to use of Aws IoT certificate, access key and secret key in Swift?
I am new to Swift as well as to AWS-IoT.
After reading a tons of doc, I finally decide to post a question for a simple answer.
I am working on a project where I have to interact with "Things".
I ...
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Are immersion sensors typically waterproof?
This may sound dumb, but are flood sensors, like the one from Xiaomi typically completely waterproof?
And if they are, would they work if installed vertically, facing with the side downwards, instead ...
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Internet Connectivity at the sea
I am building a project which involves the application of geo-fencing at the international borders. An alert is received when the user is near the border. an email is sent to the coastal guards as ...
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What is the most safe and easy way to send a command to a remote Raspberry Pi? [closed]
I would like to send a command with some predetermined number of arguments to a Raspberry Pi and get the output back from it. I was thinking of using restricted ssh key but was wondering if that is ...
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what wifi modules exactly do? [closed]
Does it connect to server directly or connected to a router for data sharing or both?
well, I'm having hard time about understanding this issues. Does it can provide communication to the server ...
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If I want to integrate Innr with home assistant, does there need to be a component for it?
So I bought some "Innr" products, namely zigbee bulbs and plugs. For my hub, I decided to go the raspberry pi + hass.io route.
After I bought everything however, I noticed, that there is actually no ...
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Error Handling Fallbacks In IoT Software
When one designs software for remote devices and IoT, one has to consider how the system manages various failures, be it software or hardware.
If the system recognizes a SW bug, it may notify the ...
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Connect dumb lamp to Hue/Homekit without switch
I would like to connect a dumb lamp to my Hue/Homekit setup.
The lamp is powered by G9 LEDs and, as far as I know, there are no G9 smart bulbs.
I am also unable to exchange the physical wall switches....
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Traditional looking toggle switch that works with Hue (possibly through Alexa/google)?
New to this Hue madness, got a 4 pack with Hub. Enjoying the lights, not ready to start asking Google/Alexa to turn on my lights.
I know Philips has a couple switches, but Im looking for something ...
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Issues including Fibaro's FGS-223
I'm struggling with my fgs-223, the device does not include or exclude, the only thing I succeeded is to hard reset it.
This is a video of my trials, please tell me if anything is done wrong: https://...
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Change IP address of IP CAM using CMS software
I'm using IP camera - as an input for my IOT project.
IP cam default IP is 192.168.1.10 and in order to use it in my network I need to change its default IP.
My network address is 192.168.3.x. ...
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Which IoT platform to visualize real-time and historical sensor data?
In order to prepare some tutorials for my students, I am working on a few DIY electronics projects in the field of IoT. I want to use ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino Uno, and Raspberry Pi. I am more deep on ...
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The Things Network AWS IoT integration
I have followed the tutorial for the AWS integration but cannot get the MQTT messages to display in the AWS IoT Core. I assume bridging is not working since I can get the messages in an external ...
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Zigbee or Bluetooth for turning router on and off? [closed]
I want to be able to turn my wifi router on and off with a smart plug. What would be the best way to achieve that? Have one special plug which is zigbee (or is Bluetooth better for this?) which only ...
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DLINK-DKT-202-ES Setup
I recently bought a DLINK-DKT-202-ES from ebay. This device per my understanding is a modified DCS-2310L for use with a now bankrupt "Sage by Hughes" security system.
My understanding is the camera ...
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Which certificate to embed into ESP32?
I'm reading very different things about certificates in IoT.
I'm struggling to make a choice on how to manage this.
Here's the situation:
I'm using ESP32
I don't have much storage available
I need ...
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Measuring electricity usage with TECKIN smart plug
I bought a smart plug, which doesn't seem to support measuring electricity usage with its native app.
I am wondering what the chance is, that this is a pure software feature and if I would be able ...
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Transfer data from Python Script to the Cloud using Node Red [closed]
I am running a Python Script on a Raspberry Pi to get the data measured by a Smart Plug (voltage, current, energy, power). This data is being printed on the terminal of the Raspberry Pi, but what I ...
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How to connect the ESP8266 and DHT11 to arduino Uno?
I am new to the IoT. I am doing a project which includes collection of weather information and send data to the thingspeak.
I struggled for the connection of ESP8266 to Arduino Uno . Finally its ...
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ESP32 watchdog errors when I need a loop to constantly stream data
My ESP32 is connected to an NRF24L01 chip where by it receives a stream of audio data. I then relay this information via WiFi over to an MQTT broker.
Here's a few parts from my arduino IDE sketch ...
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Communicate with MQTT over LoRa
I have two Raspberry Pis with a LoRa module each (Microchip RN2483, connected over serial). How do I tell MQTT (in Python) to use the LoRa motes (/dev/ttyAMC0) instead of Ethernet or Wi-Fi?
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How multitenency with azure IoT is handled?
My company is using Azure IoT services so my question is more specific to azure IoT cloud services.
My project is about Azure sphere that sends data to Azure IoT hub and an Azure Event hub reads real ...
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Are MQTT Brokers able to retain/cache some data for a certain amount of time and then send to the subscribers?
I currently have a Mosquitto MQTT Broker on which some IoT Nodes publish their information on a specific topic. I have an instance of Telegraf from InfluxData running that subscribes to this topic and ...
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Indoor Navigation: INS vs UWB Beacon
I am asking this rather open ended question. I am starting to explore IoT and its power to transform retail industry. Though I have heavy background in engineering, I am fairly new to IoT.
What I am ...
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Thingspeak API Limit GET Requests?
Is there a GET request rate limit for the Thingspeak API? So far I've only been able to find information about POST requests.
I have a data acquisition R script that I would like to run in parallel. ...
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How to store non-volatile data (an ID) inside a passive physical object?
I'm starting a project that evolve some kind of multiple small physical IoT objects that can be plugged dynamically to a wood board and trigger some leds.
My question is so simple that I'm afraid of ...
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How does endianness work in LoRaWAN1.1?
On Page 9 in the LoRaWAN 1.1. specification it says:
The over-the-air octet order for all multi-octet fields is little endian.
EUI are 8 bytes multi-octet fields and are transmitted as little endian.
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Stream Raspberry Pi camera to Android/iOS over internet without port forwarding? [closed]
Problem :
I want make live stream from my camera attached to Raspberry pi 3 b+, which is connected to home WiFi. Streaming should be over internet. So that any client like Android/ iOS can stream it ...
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Cellular Base station from ethernet
Does anyone know of any devices that can take an ethernet connection and turn it into 4g to act as a base station? I am trying to find a solution to test data connection for a significant amount of ...
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How to differentiate the side of a door?
I would like to design a lock which will automatically open once someone is on a specific side of a door ("outside").
There are easy (software) and complicated (hardware) elements to take into ...
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Measure strip bending
I though of a bluetooth strip device, that would tell me the value of the angle and direction in 3D. I tried to search for one, but did not found anything.
The only idea I've got so far is to set up ...
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How Different is a Car's Bluetooth from phone Bluetooth
I'm developing an application which makes use of a car's Bluetooth but I need to identify if a certain Bluetooth device is a car's Bluetooth. Is there a way to differentiate between Bluetooth devices ...
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The Things Network - Pricing
I am planning to use The Things Network for my next project with around 50 LoRa nodes geographically distributed in an area. I am wondering is LoRaWAN free to use - provided we buy LoRaWAN gateway ...