In this tutorial, we will implement a simple temperature logger on the Raspberry Pi 3 and connect four DS18B20 temperature sensors to it. The temperature measurements will be stored in a database along with a time stamp. We have selected InfluxDB as the database engine as this is a time-series database and integrates very easy to Grafana. Grafana will retrieve …
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Everything You Want to Know About Raspberry Pi GPIO: But Were Afraid to Ask
Introduction to the Raspi GPIO This article focuses on the Raspberry Pi’s with the 40 pin GPIO connector. In addition to the familiar USB, Ethernet and HDMI ports, the Raspberry Pi offers the ability to connect directly to a variety of electronic devices. These include: On the Raspberry Pi’s with the 40 pin connector, 28 of the pins are available …
Read More »Datalogger example using Sense Hat, InfluxDB and Grafana
In this article we will make a simple datalogger application running on the Raspberry Pi. It is compatible with Raspberry Pi Zero W, Pi 2 and Pi 3.
Read More »How to Setup CLAWS Mail
What is Claws mail? Claws Mail is an email client aiming at being fast, easy-to-use and powerful. It is mostly desktop-independent, but tries to integrate with your desktop as best as possible. The Claws Mail developers try hard to keep it lightweight, so that it should be usable on low-end computers without much memory or CPU power, which is great …
Read More »How to install Grafana+InfluxDB on the Raspberry Pi
InfluxDB is an easy to use open-source time series database developed by InfluxData. It is written in Go and optimized for fast, high-availability storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, Internet of Things sensor data, and real-time analytics. It also has support for processing data from Graphite. A time series database have …
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