I wanna develop an Alexa Skill to communicate with my devices using Open Sound Control through Local Area Network.
After little research it seems that the Echo dot do not allow us to programme it to connect with local devices. Is there any work around without the need of a Raspberry Pi as a middle man?
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Most electronic home goods today are able to be setup through a webpage to connect the device to a home network. Usually there is some sort of bluetooth or wifi direct finding mode to access the device and then using a webpage or app the device is given the SSID/password for a wifi network and then you're off to the races. What is that tech called? I would like to replicate the setup experience with a generic IoT device running linux. I just don't know what that process is called to start digging into how to do it.
Bluetooth and Wifi-direct specifications are (consumer-usage-wise) public-domain knowledge, just setup a temporary open server and accept any connection after each hard-reset, and do what you have to do like here (BT) and here (Wifi-direct). There are other proprietary technology like TI CC3000, which usually relates to specific hardware solutions.
i am new to IoT and Azure but at the moment i want to connect a raspberry pi and the philips hue bulb to the IoT Hub. I already did this and i can communicate between the raspberry pi and the IoT Hub. I can send messages and store them in a Storage container.
But the biggest problem for me is to make the two devices communicate. My goal is that i send a message from the pi to the hub with a certain word, for example 'blue' and then the bulb changes its colour to blue. What is the best way to this? I really dont know how to proceed.
Help and advice would really be appreciated.
Greetings, Julian
Device to device communication is not available, hence you have to use IoT Hub as the broken between the two devices. There are a few ways to do this:
Use your Raspberry Pi as a controller by building a back-end application to control other devices. You can find a tutorial on how to control other devices here. You'd need to connect the Phillips hue bulb to IoT Hub as well.
Use your Raspberry Pi as an event triggering end-device, and use our integration features to route the command and then sends the command to Phillips hue bulb using Microsoft Flow.
Our reference architecture is documented here.
I have been experimenting with home home automation and want to turn my raspberry pi 3 into a hub not something my devices manually connect to e.g from the gpio pins. In many unsuccessful attempts I have tried OpenHab. I would like to mount a touchscreen with a GUI so I can e.g turn the lights on from this control panel instead of via phone or other hubs available like Google Home. If anyone knows how I might do this it will be much appreciated.
It seems like home-assistant with floorplan would work for this. It takes a little bit of configuring but well worth it.
Hello I am trying to work out how to set kodi up on my smart TV. My main problem lies with the TV being on the wall in another room too far away from power sources. She has sky installed and that was situated in the other room and with a HDMI lead fed under to floorboards to the other room by a professional someone or other. I am unable to feed another HDMI lead along the line.
Is there a way I could connect kodi by some other means to the TV? I am not really up on these things.
At the moment I have the kodi box in another room and I have to switch the sky lead to the kodi box to use. Also this means you have to be in the other room.
Can anyone suggest a way for me to get kodi working on the tv and be able to operate it via remote control?
I use Kodi on all of my TVs through an amazon fire stick. Most smart TVs have a USB on the back of the TV that can power the fire stick while its plugged into the HDMI so you wouldn't have to worry about power. I have a Sony bravia that will control the fire stick as long as I am on the input the fire stick is plugged into so no need for an additional remote.
To start off this is the wrong place to ask. This is a Q and A platform for programming questions and coding related questions.
To give you an answer though because I'm not a dick the best way to do it would be using a NAS. You would have two Kodi boxes but one media store.
I'm not sure which device do you use.
In my case, I installed Kodi on my Raspberry Pi(RPi) and TV and RPi are connected with HDMI. My TV is Samsung SmartTV, which supports HDMI-CEC. So, RPI can get RCU Key input from TV.
(HDMI-CEC allows devices connected to your TV through HDMI ports to communicate back and forth with your TV. )
In addition, you can customize keymaps for remotes in GUI by using the community Keymap Editor add-on.
https://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap
Check your TV supports HDMI-CEC, first.
In the last weeks I experimented with my Raspberry Pi B and with the PiCamera. I had the idea to establish a connection between the RasPi and an Android device or (if it is easier) to a windows notebook without an access point in between, just like the GoPro camera and its App. I would like to have a live stream from the PiCamera to the other device and the possibility to start/stop recording a video or simply take a picture.
The app itself is not my problem, I wrote some simple apps before. But I didn't yet find a tutorial or description how to set up the communication and the stream.
I bought a WiFi dongle (Fritz!WLAN Stick N - by AVM) that supports WiFi direct and my phone (Samsung Galaxy S5 mini) does as well.
My first question is how to set up this stick on Raspbian - yet it is not recognises as a wifi dongle, and the second is how to achieve what I descriebed above.
Could anyone please describe what I can do?
Thanks in advance!
PS: I prefer a description for bash because I use SSH