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Raspberry Pi 4 Personal Datacentre Part 3: A Self-hosted IoT Data Platform

In this series of posts we show how a Raspberry Pi 4 can be used to create a personal cloud solution that is managed using Ansible and Docker — powerful tools that are used by many large scale cloud platforms, which automate configuration tasks and provide containerisation for applications.

Smartmeter2mqtt

This application can listen to your (Dutch) Smartmeter with a P1 connector, and send the data to several outputs.

OMNI

A very lightweight monitoring system for Raspberry Pi clusters running Kubernetes.

Home Automation System – OpenHAB 3 Migration – 03. Docker, Portainer, InfluxDB on RPI

Third chapter related to my OpenHAB 2.5 to OpenHAB 3 migration. After installing OpenHabian on the Raspberrypi 4, we continue with the system setup by installing docker engine, portainer (web interface for docker container management) and influxdb as docker container, creating the users and databases to re-import data and be ready for the persistence of OpenHAB 3.

InfluxDB setup on Kubernetes

A couple of months ago I had my first encounter with InfluxDB. I found it very interesting from the very start because its key concepts are different from the ones used in the SQL or MongoDB databases, in which I had some experience.

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