Wow! It's been 2 years since I've posted to my blog and the last ~24 months have certainly been eventful (both good and bad)! Here i was posting about the new Raspberry Pico and for the last month or so

I just read about the newest member of the raspberry pi family, the pico, at an unbelievable price of $5.24CDN (4USD I believe?)!!! It is the first Raspberry Pi purpose built microcontroller using their

Good Morning! In my previous post on using mqtt with Node-Red, @mytechtrail had asked how to add different tabs for the different flows that could be on separate Pi's. Additionally I'll share with you

Good Morning! Most of my posts have covered the software side of my systems. I did go through wiring up the 12V LED light strips to the Pi with MOSFETS in Part III of the Raspberry Pi Home Automation series.

Good Morning! In my previous post I went over how to install the mosquitto mqtt broker on the Raspberry Pi and a brief explanation of how I use Node-Red to send and receive mqtt messages. In this post

Good morning! In the previous post we went over the setting up of your first flow with Node-Red and my irl brother Randy @mytechtrail shared his first setup. I was going to go through my breadboarding

Good Morning! In the last post we covered how to install or update the Node-Red software in your Raspberry Pi as well as install the dashboard that will allow us to generate those awesome webpages. If

Today I would like to go over how to install the Node-Red software on your Raspberry Pi. The Raspbian Operating System comes with Node-Red, but I'm not sure what version, or if it includes the Raspberry

In my fifth post we went over the basics of Node-Red, how to install it in a Raspberry Pi and some of the webpages generated by it and the controls utilized on the dashboard. Today I want look a bit deeper

In part 4 of this series I shared some pictures of the LED light strips in action and the small relay board that I use when I want to control a device with power that is independent of the Raspberry Pi.

In my first post I went over the layout of my Raspberry Pi home automation system. In my second post I went into a little bit more detail on the Power Supply and Raspberry Pi. In my third post I described

In my second post I shared how easy it was to recycle an old PC power supply. Just don't forget the fuses, my PS can deliver 5V @ 15A & +12V @ 16A & 18A, more than enough to damage your circuits

In my previous post, I showed the entire Raspberry Pi circuit, including the power supply, Pi, MOSFET Switch Board & the Relay board. Today I'll show close up pics of the Power Supply and the Pi. I'm

Well I've had some spare time over the last week (hopefully many others have as well!) and wanted to update my gang of Raspberry Pi's that I use for home automation. Right now my home automation is primarily

Introduction & Raspberry Pi Light Controller