Programming & Electronics for a Noob Like Me

Home Made Weather station with Arduino Home Made Weather station with Arduino Many like me are thirsty for information, have always wanted to self-produce a simple home weather station to monitor the environmental conditions inside the house. Not long ago I decided to interface an Arduino board with the fantastic free IOT platform Thingspeak, so I can check the environmental data of my home at any time and anywhere. In this tutorial we will see how to send values ​​of Temperature, Pressure, Humidity and flame presence of your home to the Thingspeak platform. First things First Creating a free account on Thingspeak.com is simple, go to the address and click on the top right of "Register". Once registered and logged in, just click on the "Channels" drop-down menu at the top and then on "My Channels" When you are on "My Channels" page click on "New Channel" Enter all the necessar...

Use a Telegram Bot to receive data from a Thingspeak channel Use a Telegram Bot to receive data from a Thingspeak channel Lately I've been playing around Telegram and its infinite functions, as, the very interesting one of the Bots. Having, in the past, linked an Arduino UNO to a Thingspeak channel, I wanted to write a script on my RPI Zero to program a Telegram Bot to allow it to respond some simple commands.  Not finding any guide around (or at least that I seen) I decided to post a little guide on my own here. ASSUMPTIONS: That you have a Public or Private channel on Thingspeak where to retrieve data from. That you have a machine where Python 3 runs Ex RPI What You Need:  A Telegram Account and a Bot on it Thingspeak  Account Raspberry Pi  To create a bot you'll need to add "@BotFather" to Telegram and send him a message "/newbot", once all data needed is inserted (it is very easy just follow BotFather...