Monitoring your home, with DevOps observability tools
summary
Cheap Wi‑Fi and Arduino devices cost about “a beer” each (three for a beer-era price on Arduinos) and battery sensors wake ~every 5 minutes, so data ingestion uses zig2mqtt or direct MQTT into a time‑series store; examples use Prometheus push gateway for sleeping sensors and influx DB for storage. Telegraf (config shown) forwards MQTT into grafana dashboards that plot solar, battery and per‑room temperature. The setup produces useful graphs in minutes, with one sensor noted as needing a reset.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:04Why home automation data
- 3:13Proprietary vs open-source monitoring
- 4:42Getting data from your home
- 7:52Choosing a radio ecosystem
- 10:42Handling battery-powered sensors
- 12:04Time-series databases for home data
- 13:46Glueing data sources together
- 15:14Visualizing home data
- 16:39Practical sensor challenges
- 18:27Next steps and resources
- 19:13Q&A
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