There are a lot of well known extensions like GitLens, Prettier or ESLint, but I would like to show you less known but very helpful extensions.
Shows package version information for npm, jspm, dub and dotnet core
Easily launch multiple shell configurations in the terminal.
ESP’s are great to give your sensors the possibility to extract the sensor data, because of the on-board WIFI chip, which can connect to your network.
Imagine you have multiple sensors, and you would like to access the measured data and show it in Home Assistant. You can either spin up a web server on your ESP and pull the data or send data from your ESP to your Home Assistant.
The advantage of the push strategy is power saving through deep sleep mode of ESP, which will be explained later.
In my case the + and - pin label was incorrect and I had to swap them. So that the orange wire is attached to + (and not -).
Home Assistant unfortunately doesn’t support Smart Life components (yet) (e.g. Switches from Gosund, COOSA or Teckin), but fortunately IFTTT works great with Smart Life components, which can be connected to Home Assistant.
In my example, I will show you how to turn on/off lights by using Teckin Switches with help of IFTTT. The result in Home Assistant will like that:
ESP8266 is a low cost (2-3$ in begin of 2019) WIFI microchip with a 80/160 MHz CPU, which will be used for a lot of DIY projects.
If you are looking for more powerful microchip, or you need Bluetooth capability, check out the successor ESP32.
I bought the “D1 Mini” model of ESP8266 with 4MB flash (you can get them e.g. here).
Note: It is not the WeMos D1 Mini, but a copy of it. The PIN diagram is the same, which you can find here.
Simple collection of common JDBC Drivers and JDBC URL’s, with username and password. If you find any mistakes please let me know.
JDBC Driver:
1 | com.mysql.jdbc.Driver |
JDBC Url:
1 | jdbc:mysql://{{hostname}}:{{port}}/{{dataBaseName}}?user={{username}}&password={{password}} |
JDBC Driver:
1 | org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver |
JDBC Url:
1 | jdbc:mariadb://{{hostname}}:{{port}}/{{dataBaseName}}?user={{username}}&password={{password}} |