Tessel app that measures temperature and humidity and sends it over to the mintpeaks server.
For more information, check out the main repo. See the website live at mintpeaks.com.
To run this, you'll first need to get a Tessel 2, the microcontroller that runs Node and an accompanying climate module.
Then you plug the Tessel in, install it's CLI:
npm install Tessel
Then you should adjust the server where Tessel will be sending climate data in climate_reporter.js, and run it on the Tessel with:
t2 run climate_reporter.js
If you'd like to run this untethered, you will need to bake the script onto the Tessel, you can do that with:
t2 push climate_reporter.js
Now everytime your Tessel will boot up, it'll automatically start sending climate data to the configured server.
Note that you can't run this locally with node climate_reporter.js as it can only run inside Tessel's runtime.
I was not able to get this running on Tessel 1, since their WiFi module couldn't handle sending data for more than a couple of hours before freezing completely.
Tessel 2 seems to work great so far.
This repo is part of the mintpeaks ecosystem, there are two other parts you need to setup for it to work:
- Websocket proxy mintpeaks-tessel - Server that receieves data from the Tessel and send it over socket.io
- Website mintpeaks-com - Simple client side app that connects to this proxy throught socket.io
- Alexa Skill mintpeaks-alexa-skill - Alexa skill to get climate data by just asking