I got myself one of Sparkfun’s FT232R Breakout Boards, but I didn’t get the basic version (whoops).  Now, the advanced version breaks out every pin of the FT232R, but it doesn’t have a direct pinout to an FTDI cable such as what the FT232R Basic supplies.  Oh, and it’s set by default to 3.3v, but that’s adjustable through a solder jumper.

So, I’m planning on building up an Arduino-compatible breadboard in order to prototype my MCE Remote IR Blaster. In order to do this, I decided I needed a few extra components so I can program the ATmega328p microcontroller without needing to go and pull chips out of sockets on my current Uno boards;

In my last post about the ENVI-R setup, I discussed setting publish-envir.pl in order to parse raw serial data from the ENVI-R and post it out to MQTT channels.  In this post, we’ll discuss how to get THTTPD and MRTG going, in order to actually get some useful graphs out there.

In my last post about my ENVI-R setup, I talked about how to set up RSMB.  Now we’ll talk about setting up the appropriate scripts so that you can get data parsed from the ENVI-R and have it published to the appropriate channels on the message broker.

I’m currently forced to use three remote controls, and I don’t particularly want to shell out for a Logitech Harmony universal remote. So, I got the idea to construct an IR relay myself, which would pick up signals from the Media Center Remote (the one that I use all the buttons for), and then be able to replicate the functionality of the two remotes that I only use power bottons on.