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Designing a New Outdoor LoRa Gateway

Designing a New Outdoor LoRa Gateway

It's been a while since I did any electronics work as my job involves mostly software and customer support. However recently I've wanted to do a few electronics projects where having a LoRa Gateway on TTN running again would be handy. While I have pieces of old gateways I've worked

EO Mini Pro 2 Review

EO Mini Pro 2 Review

Since getting solar installed I've been debating about getting a solar capable EV charger, however the cost for them seemed quite high. However when browsing around I found this charger at Replenishh for only £354 which seemed like a great deal. Features claim to be that it supports solar and

Smart Meter Data Over MQTT! Using the Glowmarkt Glowstick

Smart Meter Data Over MQTT! Using the Glowmarkt Glowstick

I recently wrote an article on a DIY energy monitoring solution using CT Clamps and an ESP8266. This has been working fairly well, however had one flaw I couldn't figure out how to resolve. Measuring export from excess power generated by solar. While I don't currently have solar we should

Cheap CT Clamp Based Energy Monitoring

Cheap CT Clamp Based Energy Monitoring

Within the last couple of months the Home Automation Software I use, Home Assistant (HASSIO) has added some new Energy monitoring features which look really handy. It had a few recommended methods for monitoring power, being: * A data protocol on meters that seem based primarily in Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Adding a Octopus Go Pricing Entity to Home Assistant

Adding a Octopus Go Pricing Entity to Home Assistant

With the recent new Energy management feature being added to HASSIO I've started work on building some DIY sensors to use. One of the features is for you to be able to track the cost of the energy used by providing a pricing entity, back when I was on Agile

QUBEV - EV Charger Review

QUBEV - EV Charger Review

Recently my EV Charger has been tripping out, unfortunately meaning that a few times I've woken up to no charge. From the best diagnosis I could do I determined it was the charger, which I did buy used so suspect it was sold due to possibly the same issue. I

Nebra Pi Zero Light Hotspot

Nebra Pi Zero Light Hotspot

What Helium Region

What Helium Region

A simple project that I whipped up, What Helium Region (https://whatheliumregion.xyz) is a website I built to help people find what is the correct Region of Hotspot to order for the Helium LoRa Network. You can simply enter the country you wish to use the hotspot in and

Nebra Indoor Helium Hotspot

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Nebra Indoor Helium Hotspot

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, Embedded Software Development, Python Software Development, Production Management, Quality Control, Hand Assembly of Prototypes, Certification Management, Documentation & Testing. Date: First produced January 2021 Status: In Production FInd out more at: https://helium.nebra.com/indoor-hotspot/overview Overview The Nebra Indoor Helium

Compute Module 3 Flashstick

Compute Module 3 Flashstick

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, Hand Assembly of Prototypes, Documentation & Testing. Date: First produced December 2020 Status: In Development FInd out more at: https://github.com/NebraLtd/FlashStick/tree/main/Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Overview To make flashing the software onto Raspberry Pi Compute modules

Micro LoRa Gateway

Micro LoRa Gateway

Summary Company: Personal Use Side Project Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, Hand Assembly of Prototypes, Software Date: First produced December 2020 Status: On hiatus. Overview I was interested in making an as cheap as possible gateway that could potentially be distributed to clients, this would be the bare minimum required

Traffic pHAT

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, Demo Software, Tutorial & Manufacturing Date: Status: Active. Overview Designed as a cheap and simple educational add-on for the Raspberry Pi being one of the early boards to conform to the Raspberry Pi HAT Standard. The board came half assembled with all

SnowPi RGB

Building a compact Steam Machine, in a dead XBOX shell.

Building a compact Steam Machine, in a dead XBOX shell.

Building a compact Steam Machine, in a dead XBOX shell. TL;DR: This XBOX has been replaced with a basic computer in for casual gaming, media center use & works with Steam Link. So why do this? I wanted to play a few older games that I have and actually complete

Nebra Outdoor Helium Hotspot

Nebra Outdoor Helium Hotspot

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, Embedded Software Development, Python Software Development, Hand Assembly of Prototypes, Documentation & Testing. Date: First produced January 2021 Status: In Production FInd out more at: https://helium.nebra.com/outdoor-hotspot/overview Overview

Nebra RPi Compute Module 3/3+ Daughterboard

Nebra RPi Compute Module 3/3+ Daughterboard

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, Hand Assembly of Prototypes, Documentation & Testing, Software. Date: First produced December 2020 Status: In Production Overview One of the main parts of the Nebra Indoor & Outdoor Hotspots, the RPi CM3/3+ Compute Module contains all the key circuitry for a compute

Security pHAT

IoT Ethernet pHAT

IoT Ethernet pHAT

IoT Z Wave pHAT

IoT Z Wave pHAT

EV Charger Hacking Success!

EV Charger Hacking Success!

Backstory We’re in the process of switching to our new energy supplier’s (Octopus) EV Tarrif. Of which the daytime rate of electric is around the same as other tarrifs at 14p per unit, but for 4 hours a night this reduces down to 5p per unit. Roughly taking

IoT LoRa micro:bit node

IoT LoRa micro:bit node

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. / Pi Supply Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, Makecode Library, Software, documentation & Testing. Date: First produced October 2018 Status: Still for sale. Overview As Part of a bundle of 3 LoRa nodes we launched at Pi Supply we decided to launch one for the micro:bit to

IoT LoRa Arduino Node

IoT LoRa Arduino Node

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. / Pi Supply Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, documentation & Testing. Date: First produced October 2018 Status: Still for sale. Overview As Part of a bundle of 3 LoRa nodes we launched at Pi Supply we decided to launch one for the Arduino to make it easier for

IoT LoRa Node pHAT

IoT LoRa Node pHAT

Summary Company: Nebra LTD. / Pi Supply Tasks: Electrical Design, PCB Design, documentation & Testing. Date: First produced October 2018 Status: Still for sale. Overview As Part of a bundle of 3 LoRa nodes we launched at Pi Supply we decided to launch one for the Arduino to make it easier for

IoT LoRa Gateway HAT

IoT LoRa Gateway HAT

"Ultimate" Lora Gateway Backplane

"Ultimate" Lora Gateway Backplane

“Ultimate” Lora Gateway BackplaneLoRa Gateways are coming down in cost however many of the DIY Solutions aren’t the best to implement in public locations. My solution is to try and build a better, more integrated LoRa Gateway Backplane PCB which can support either the ic880a or RAK831 most commonly