Re:Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project
by stevekemp on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:50AM
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I'm the same, I use some cheap ESP8266 devices which have a temperature/humidity sensor attached. They submit their measurements every minute to a central MQ installation:
While I don't have any particular reason for collecting the data it can be fun to look at. For example you can easily spot when somebody has a shower because the humidity spikes in the bathroom:
Naively I expected to track the weather, because I figure on a hot day the temperature of my living-room/etc would spike. Turns out this house is pretty well insulated so the internal temperature has essentially no relationship to the external one. I guess that makes sense in a country where you might have -25'C in the winters.
https://steve.fi/Hardware/d1-temperature-humidity/
While I don't have any particular reason for collecting the data it can be fun to look at. For example you can easily spot when somebody has a shower because the humidity spikes in the bathroom:
https://twitter.com/Stolen_Souls/status/848444075296641025
Naively I expected to track the weather, because I figure on a hot day the temperature of my living-room/etc would spike. Turns out this house is pretty well insulated so the internal temperature has essentially no relationship to the external one. I guess that makes sense in a country where you might have -25'C in the winters.