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How to get Google Home assistant to read a value from the Internet?

Using IFTTT, I am able to send POST REST requests, which then it is able to flip the lights on/off on my Raspberry Pi. I can make a GET REST request (using postman) to get the value of the light, but I can't seem to figure out how to get google…
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How do Smart Home Security Boxes work?

With the increased security risks against IoT based smart homes, many security appliances have been commercialized. These appliances or boxes claim to protect the home network from malware, cyber-attacks, and preserve consumer’s data privacy. There…
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Ambient lighting with IKEA Tradfri and Apple HomeKit

I have the IKEA full color spectrum smart bulbs and I'm very happy with them. Technically they are regular zigbee bulbs. Today I control them with homekit, see "Today." What I want is to use the video out of my Mac Mini as input for the light's…
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Calculate velocity and direction on microcontroller or on remote server?

Assume that I have a device attached on a car which includes an MCU, and a SIM908 module. The SIM908's function is to receive GPS data from satellites and then send them to the remote server through 2G/GPRS once every minute to display on the web.…
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SIM5320 MQTT TCP connection closing unexpectedly after time

I have been working on an MQTT protocol using the SIM5320. I am familiar with the AT command documentation, and have a working implementation with an Arduino. I open a network socket with AT+NETOPEN Then I open a TCP connection with…
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Alexa for Business - Using Alexa for conference room

I am trying to configure the newly released Alexa for Business module for my Echo Device. I followed all the steps suggested in the videos released by Alexa. However I keep running into the problem "Sync in progress" for the Echo device settings and…
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Is there any way to access local server from outside without port forwarding?

Situation I need to access an ESP8266's Wi-Fi local server from outside. Like Xiaomi Yeelight (YeeLight Introduction Web Site Link) or LOHAS LED (LOHAS LED Web Site), I have to control it from outside not in same Wi-Fi. I can only think of port…
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Reducing the number of Hubs in a DIY Smart Home Automation project?

I'm doing some very basic automation - lights, cameras, motion sensors. My key requirement is to be able to turn certain lights on or off based on motion and time of day, with the ability to add more complex logic later via custom programming. I…
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IOTA on Arduino or Raspberry Pi or Similar Board?

I'm new to the world of IoT, I don't even have an Arduino or similar board yet... but I am very interested, especially with cryptocurrency such as IOTA making such things potentially profitable. Sadly, this also seems like a really new field too,…
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Wio Node setup failed

To setup Wio Node, I installed the Wio Android app. The procedure doesn't end when I try to connect Wio Device like the image. After that I installed wio-cli and a driver for Mac. Then logged in. % wio login 1.) Global Server…
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How do car insurance tracking devices connect to the internet?

There are these devices that you can plug into your car and the insurance company can get real time data to "lower" your insurance cost. Image from U.S.News, 2016. How do they connect to the internet? Satellites? Mobile network? Searching on Google…
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2G-4G SIM Cards for Cellular Modules, specifically the new NB-IoT

I'm trying to connect to the NB-IoT network in my city, and I've already gotten the hardware as well as the confirmation that there is an NB-IoT cell tower in my neighborhood. Naturally, there's an NB-IoT SIM card as well that is used to connect to…
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Industrial Internet vs IoT

Wikipedia on my mother tongue Finnish about Internet of Things (sorry, in Finnish language, but I'll translate the essential) mentions IoT as a synonym or closely related to Industrial Internet. As translated to English the paragraph…
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AWS IoT implementation on a low end controller like Atmega328, nrf51822?

I have been using AWS IoT implemented in a RPi for a while. I was wondering if I could use a controller like Atmega328 or some NRF based controllers or STM32 to publish and subscribe to AWS IoT MQTT broker ? I did a bit of research on that and I'm…
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Server to handle connections with smart sockets

Right now I'm working on architecture for application that will manage smart sockets and I need advice. This is what I have for now: I'm not sure how to handle connection between Spring and smart socket (I want to be able to turn on/off socket from…
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