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From Hobby Chickens to the IoT World — Part 2
Monitor HVAC performance with BME280 sensors, MQTT, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Learn how to detect anomalies like sauna heat spikes, filter clogs, and frost protection cycling. Real data from a Finnish home over one year.
From Hobby Chickens to the IoT World — Part 1
How a garden snail problem led to keeping summer chickens, building a winter-proof coop, and automating the chicken door with a Raspberry Pi, 433 MHz remote control, and MQTT. The unexpected journey from psychology observations to IoT …