Tag: automate

How to Monitor Electricity Usage with USB over IP and Jeedom (Easy Step-by-Step)

Posted on by Arnauld Dravet
In this article, I’ll walk you through how I monitor my own electricity use leveraging the Jeedom automation system with a French electricity meter. My setup consists of a “master” Jeedom controller (running as a Debian VM on an Intel NUC with vSphere) and a hardware modem/sensor connected to the meter, which in turn is linked to a remote Raspberry Pi 3B+. The core of… Read more ...

Improve Your Smart Garden: Easy Bluetooth Range Extension for Jeedom

Posted on by Arnauld Dravet
Spring has arrived, making it the perfect moment to check whether my watering system survived the winter – and to reactivate it. In this article, I’ll explain in detail how I enhanced my existing setup with external Bluetooth antennas. We’ll improve our Jeedom test installation for automatic watering by adding (and cloning) new Bluetooth repeaters (“antennas”) to expand the range for receiving moisture sensor data.… Read more ...

Smart Irrigation with Jeedom: Automate Your Outdoor Watering Easily

Posted on by Arnauld Dravet
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up an automated outdoor watering system using the Jeedom home automation platform. With just a few components, you’ll be able to remotely control a water valve for a drip irrigation system, making your garden care much more convenient. The solution uses a soil moisture sensor (communicating with Jeedom over Bluetooth) and a water valve operated via… Read more ...