Tag Archives: Raspberry Pi

DIY: Making your home (almost) Ad-free with Pi-hole

I have “No Ads, please!” label on my physical mailbox, but that works only for traditional ads. For my devices, I need to install an ad blocker to each browser and for some devices like my smart TV such doesn’t exist. Luckily, there is a solution for that and it is called Pi-hole. Pi-Hole isContinue reading “DIY: Making your home (almost) Ad-free with Pi-hole”

DIY Home Automation with Home Assistant

When I moved to my new house three years ago, I searched solutions how to control my garage door with my iPhone, especially through Apple Home(Kit). But I couldn’t find any cheap commercial solutions and HomeKit accessories were quite new and expensive back then. So, I started to investigate DIY solutions and I was recommendedContinue reading “DIY Home Automation with Home Assistant”

Monitoring your home temperature – Part 3: Visualizing your data with Power BI

Finally, we have our infrastructure up and running and we can start visualizing it with Power BI. Just login to your Power BI account: https://app.powerbi.com/ Select My Workspace and click Datasets + dataflows. Click the three dots from your dataset and choose Create Report. Let’s create line charts for temperature, humidity and air pressure. EachContinue reading “Monitoring your home temperature – Part 3: Visualizing your data with Power BI”

Monitoring your home temperature – Part 2: Setting up Azure

Now we need to setup the Azure side and for that you need an Azure subscription. You can get a new subscription with 170€ of credits for 30 days with this link, if you don’t have anything yet: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ As this is a demo environment, we do not focus heavily on security. You need someContinue reading “Monitoring your home temperature – Part 2: Setting up Azure”

Monitoring your home temperature – Part 1: Setting up RuuviTags and Raspberry Pi

I actually did this a few years ago, but never wrote a detailed blog about it, so I thought now would be good time for it. We moved to a new house three years ago and since then, we have had issues with floor temperatures. It’s hard to maintain steady temperature for all rooms andContinue reading “Monitoring your home temperature – Part 1: Setting up RuuviTags and Raspberry Pi”