Lately, I have been quickly progressing on my journey to try to use nymea in my home and other places. You can read about how I set up Nymea on an ubuntu USB drive with persistency here if you want to do it too. Shortly after setting it up and getting it working with a few standard IoT devices, I…
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Zone Minder – My Re-Visiting Journey
Way back in about 2009 or 2010 I remember my buddy installed something called zone minder on an old computer I had and with a few web cams, somehow or another I was able to monitor my coffee shop from home. It was pretty amazing and cool and free and open source. Fast forward to twenty-twenty-something, I was messing around…
Nymea Journey 3 – Making Some Stuff Work Without Smart Hardware
Not sure if you’re like me, but I like to try out some quick tests of a new system before I start buying hardware. My plan for the Nymea journey is first figure out how how to install it (covered here), then figure out how to be able to use it a bit before committing to server (covered here), then…
Nymea Journey Part 2 – Setting up a Persistent USB Drive for Nymea Testing and Explaining
Backdrop Right away when diving into Nymea and trying to understand it and also explaining it to others, I found the need for a simple, dedicated Linux distro in my pocket ready to boot up a Nymea server wherever I am. But this thing would need to be able to save a few things – mainly my nymea setup –…
My Journey to Nymea (land)
Edit: Feb 6, 2023 – Nymea has recently launched version 1.6 which appears to have added / adjusted at least some of my ‘positive criticism’ comments below so some may no longer be relevant. Further, be advised always to go to the official nymea.io documentation for the latest and greatest instructions. My stuff is just to go alongside with it.…