At work, we live and breathe MicroStrategy. So when they announced that the 2019 version will start phasing out Enterprise Manager in favor of Platform Analytics for internal reporting, I was intrigued. From what I can see, MicroStrategy is now reporting realtime usage by using a combination of Kafka and their home-brew Multiple Table Data…
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Microcharts on OLED displays using a Raspberry Pi
When you think of microcharts, you probably think of something like these: This is fine if you want to display it on a traditional screen, but what if you don’t want it to take real estate on your computer screen or cellphone? What if you want something nice and bright and readily available? Enter the…
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I had previously posted about how to use an Amazon Dash button to turn it into a doorbell. Well, recently, Amazon has added a new camera device type to their smarhome skills api. This is great for us because it has the ability to receive doorbell press events. What I set out to do is…
Read MoreCreate a visual and audio notifier
In one of my previous posts, I had shown you how to hack an Amazon dash button to do whatever you want. In our case, we had it so that it alerted us via SMS and Telegram. But what if we want to be visually alerted as well as by sound? Alexa will soon open…
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