A weather station with MQTT and Node-Red

By thibaut, in DIY and Internet of Things, december 07,2018.

We already discussed home-made weather stations in our blog, but none before had this "pagoda" design or used this messaging protocol. That's why we are writing a new post. The aim of this "low cost" weather station is to build it with materials as basic as possible

Interfacing a water meter

By martinm, in Measures and Internet of Things, october 12,2018.

Yoctopuce support has recently received several emails from distinct customers asking our opinion on the best way to interface a water meter with Yoctopuce devices. This week, we take the opportunity to explain all this in details. Follow the guide...

Using Yocto-Visualization with a YoctoHub-GSM

By martinm, in Measures and Internet of Things, august 10,2018.

Yocto-Visualization enables you to very easily visualize data from Yoctopuce sensors, whether they are connected by USB or through a network hub, with the exception of the YoctoHub-GSM. Indeed, the GSM SIM cards available to ordinary people do not have a public IP address and are behind a NAT filter, which prevents the Yocto-Visualization to connect itself directly on it. However, there is a way to work around this issue.

New: PRTG support in the YoctoHubs

By mvuilleu, in New stuff and Internet of Things, march 30,2018.

This week, we added support to the YoctoHubs and VirtualHub for a new monitoring and graph system, which is of particular interest to system engineers: PRTG. From now on, no more excuse for not detecting air conditioning failures before the servers crash :-)

Implementing a scale with Windows 10 IoT

By seb, in Internet of Things and Tiny PC, march 23,2018.

This week, we wanted to test Windows IoT. To do so, we decided to use a Raspberry Pi 3, our new Yocto-Bridge module and a Yocto-MaxiDisplay to implement a weighing scale.