Download Lubuntu Virtual Machine (PDAControlMV) IoT in VirtualBox # 1

Virtualization is one of the most used methods to facilitate the compatibility of Software or simply the test of other Operating Systems, technically it is an operating system within another. I have tried for a long time Oracle VirtualBox is one of the most used virtualization software for x86 / amd64 architectures allowing virtualization. FreeBSD…

PDAControlMV IoT Virtual Machine

Lubuntu LTS 20.04 x64 based virtual machine (Virtualbox). contains IoT software: Arduino IDE version 1.8.13 / Boards esp8266 v2.74 / Boards esp32 v10.4 Node-RED version 1.2.7 Grafana-server version 7.3.7 Influxdb version 1.8.3 Chirpstack version 3.13.2 ESP-IDF version 4.3-dev-2586-g526f68239 MySQL version 8.0.22 Mosquitto Broken MQTT version 1.6.9 We will create tutorials to test each of the…

Introduction to mDash platform for administration of IoT Devices

On this occasion I present the platform or an administration service for IoT devices called mDash, belonging to Cesanta, the creators of the IoT Mongoose Os development firmware. mDash allows firmware updates OTA (over-the-air) and remote administration, alerts and notifications, remote device control, file management with devices, all these features are for Espressif’s modules ESP32…

Introduction to Lora Server Platform IoT LoRaWAN

Loraserver is a project started in 2015, it is an open source LoRaWAN server, the project provides the components to create LPWAN networks based on LoRaWAN, it includes a user-friendly web interface and the gRPC and REST APIs, each component or module is configurable and they also allow exchange according to the needs of their…

Meter PZEM-004 + Arduino Nano Modbus RTU (RS232) & Platform IoT Node-RED

Originally this test is performed in June 2018 in less than one year, for reasons of availability do not publish, technically just missing the documentation, then I will present the results, well they say there is better late than never. In this opportunity our PZEM-004 meter or it is also possible with our PZEM-004T communication…

Meter PZEM-004 + ESP8266 & Platform IoT Ubidots

In this opportunity we will integrate our active power meter or power consumption, Peacefair Pzem-004 with the IoT Ubidots platform using an ESP8266 module, later we will create a dashboard to visualize the 4 available variables such as active power, accumulated electrical consumption, voltage and current . Update Ubidots Libraries V3.0.0 for ESP8266 modules I…

Introduction and Create account in Platform The Things Network IoT LoRaWAN

In this opportunity we will create an account in the platform The Things Network and we will make a brief introduction, TTN a good initiative to build a network for the internet of things or “IoT”. The Things Network has implemented the LoRaWAN technology, which has 3 important characteristics LoRaWAN is technically a standard protocol…

Meter PZEM-004 + ESP8266 & Platform IoT Node-RED & Modbus TCP/IP

In this opportunity we will integrate our active power meter or electric consumption,Pzem-004 – Peacefair with the IoT Node-RED integration platform used in previous tutorials, we will use an ESP8266 module configured as Modbus TCP / IP slave, later we will visualize the measurements in Node- RED Dashboard to visualize the 4 available variables such as…

ESP8266 IRCControl from Internet IoT v1.0 Part 1

How many times have we not looked for a simple way to communicate with our devices through the Internet without complications and / or complex intermediary applications, DNS, IP addresses or VPN’s. Many times I have been asked how to turn on a led, relay or view a temperature from the Internet in an easy…

Meter PZEM-004 + ESP8266 & Platform IoT Blynk App

In this opportunity we will integrate our active power meter or electric consumption, Peacefair Pzem-004 with the IoT Blynk app platform available in Android & iOS apps stores using an ESP8266 module, later we will create a dashboard to visualize the 4 available variables as active power, accumulated electrical consumption, voltage and current.    …