Andy

ESP8266 with ALL the sensors

Well, maybe not all of them, but the whole lot that you get with "AOQDQDQD® ESP8266 Weather Station Kit with Temperature Humidity Atmosphetic Pressure Light Sensor 0.96 Display for Arduino IDE

Dabbling in Arduino with MQTT

A bit of a detour from the other self hosted stuff, but still related. On a whim I bought an electronics kit from a well known Chinese online retailer.  The aim being to

Access Control Design

If you've got this far by following the steps in this blog then you have a telegram bot (with an access token) & have created a command (/getID) & wired in

Setting up your Telegram Bot

NodeRed isn't set up to run a telegram bot out of the box. Thankfully it's very easy to do. First off, get to your NodeRed canvas (called a flow)

ChatId

Your ChatId is the long number which identifies you on telegram. Each user has one & so does each group chat (although those are negative numbers). You'll want to know what