Recent content by ajohnson30

I have working code now with Mutley's web/MQTT project and my existing alexa skill. Unfortunately neither one is generic, but I might be able to give someone else pointers. I have a seperate server in my "DMZ" so to speak, that runs a MQTT server. Mutley's program sends everything to topics...

I actually tried something like this using a USR-WIFI232-604 module on the RS-485 side ($30ish on ebay), and then modified the RPi code to communicate with it via TELNET instead of the serial/TTYUSBx. I eventually gave up on this approach, deciding that the telnet libraries were less robust...

Are you running it as root? If not it could be a permissions issue. Try running either script using "sudo" or as root. I had errors myself until I did that

This sounds like exactly what I've been doing! I have other temperature sensors about my house that I've already written a skill for, along with a weather station that supplies wind & humidity, so I've been trying to bring in the pool temperature along with it's air temp since the location of...

Hey can I jump in on this? or share some more info how to DIY :)