{"id":4420,"date":"2021-02-21T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2021-02-21T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:31:12","slug":"long-time-no-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/?p=4420","title":{"rendered":"Long time no see ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks,<\/p>\n<p>after having some tough time with finishing my PhD and digging into my new job as power electronics scientist at <a href=\"https:\/\/silicon-austria-labs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Austria Labs<\/a> I had some time to prepare a few new things.<\/p>\n<p>Finally\u00a0the idea of microcontrollers, connected with webservers and\u00a0capturing, storing and presenting data got a lot easier last years. So I kept up by working on ideas for IoT projects as my flat and garden definitely needed improvements towards automation and optimization (well that&#8217;s the computer engineers point of view).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that I decided to use well established standard WiFi technology with off-the-shelf IoT devices and collecting data on a web server to keep system design complexity minimal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The initial idea behind my proposed distributed microcontroller systems project was the same &#8211; but\u00a0at some point I realized, it&#8217;s damn easy with WiFi MCUs nowadays!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Especially with new technologies and Microcontrollers (as e.g. the ESP8266 and ESP32) with WiFi onboard a whole new era for easy integration with web 2.0 services had begun. And with that in mind I started several projects in parallel to make our home a bit more intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>As teaser a short\u00a0preview of what is <strong>upcoming in the next posts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First steps with running <strong>Linux VMs &amp; docker containers<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Setup of a reverse-proxy for proxied services (nextcloud &amp; IoT devices),<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home and Garden automation<\/strong> using a selfmade API on an ESP8266, a python scripts in the Backend and a <strong>awesome Husqvarna Automower API<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>and an <strong>autonomous N<\/strong><strong>estbox <\/strong>for small birds with ESP32 connected to a Node-Red Backend (see photo below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4421\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/BirdBox_V1.0.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4421 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/BirdBox_V1.0-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"BirdBox_V1.0\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/BirdBox_V1.0-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/BirdBox_V1.0-768x946.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/BirdBox_V1.0-831x1024.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nestbox for small birds &#8211; WiFi Cam included \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks, after having some tough time with finishing my PhD and digging into my new job as power electronics scientist at Silicon Austria Labs I had some time to prepare a few new things. Finally\u00a0the idea of microcontrollers, connected with webservers and\u00a0capturing, storing and presenting data got a lot easier last years. So I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/?p=4420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long time no see \ud83d\ude09<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dms","category-recent-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}