Recently two of our major cell-carriers have introduced versions of what they refer to as "Music Freedom". These services work on the premise that data from music streaming services (a rather short list of authorized services) does not count against your monthly quota of data. Obviously these are marketed as a great feature, and heavily advertised towards younger audiences. However services like these have a dark side to them. Consider 5 years ago when Spotify…
Some time ago I bought a set of Nexa wireless sockets. They come with a remote and communicate over a 433Mhz custom protocol. However since I kept misplacing the remote I wanted to make the solution better. So I got a couple 433Mhz chips from AliExpress and connected them to a WeMos D1 mini ESP8266 chip. The ESP8266 is an Arduino compatible chip with built in WiFi and it's commonly used in home automation and…
When I created this development log I intended for the entries here to serve a two-fold purpose. Part of it was to share my projects and show some of the interesting things I come upon while creating them. The other part was to remind myself of how I did some of the more challenging or confusing parts. In both of these regards I feel the log has fallen a bit short. Sure, I've managed to…
