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Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

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Re: Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

#3

Post by cstuder »

bertwagner wrote: post #2

Author here. Thanks for reading. This was a massive learning project for me, I'm happy to answer questions or feedback.

FYI: A couple of the images down in the article are not loading (And later some seem to be incorrectly formatted). I'm especially looking forward to the exploded button.

Re: Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

#4

Post by bertwagner »

cstuder wrote: post #3
bertwagner wrote: post #2

Author here. Thanks for reading. This was a massive learning project for me, I'm happy to answer questions or feedback.

FYI: A couple of the images down in the article are not loading (And later some seem to be incorrectly formatted). I'm especially looking forward to the exploded button.

D'oh. Thank you for letting me know. All fixed now. Hopefully "exploded button" wasn't too misleading (more of an exploded view of the design).

Re: Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

#6

Post by auspiv »

bertwagner wrote: post #4
cstuder wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI: A couple of the images down in the article are not loading (And later some seem to be incorrectly formatted). I'm especially looking forward to the exploded button.

D'oh. Thank you for letting me know. All fixed now. Hopefully "exploded button" wasn't too misleading (more of an exploded view of the design).

bro your images are giant. every load of the page is transferring 40ish MB. back_panel_back_render.png is 11.3 MB. replace those with smaller versions and click to link to the larger.. but I do see both cloudfront and cloudflare headers so not sure why these aren't being cached by them

Re: Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

#7

Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

auspiv wrote: post #6
bertwagner wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

D'oh. Thank you for letting me know. All fixed now. Hopefully "exploded button" wasn't too misleading (more of an exploded view of the design).

bro your images are giant. every load of the page is transferring 40ish MB. back_panel_back_render.png is 11.3 MB. replace those with smaller versions and click to link to the larger.. but I do see both cloudfront and cloudflare headers so not sure why these aren't being cached by them

They probably need the origin server to set the right cache headers, otherwise the cdn would get blamed for stale images

Re: Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

#8

Post by Havoc »

The entire ESP ecosystem is quite accessible for people of modest technical ability.

HomeAssistant+ ESPHome + ESP32 in particular is a good stack because it takes away most of the complexity. Common sensors have ESPHome code available with a quick google so just need to connect the wires right basically

Re: Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

#9

Post by bertwagner »

auspiv wrote: post #6
bertwagner wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

D'oh. Thank you for letting me know. All fixed now. Hopefully "exploded button" wasn't too misleading (more of an exploded view of the design).

bro your images are giant. every load of the page is transferring 40ish MB. back_panel_back_render.png is 11.3 MB. replace those with smaller versions and click to link to the larger.. but I do see both cloudfront and cloudflare headers so not sure why these aren't being cached by them

Thanks for letting me know, I will have to fix this soon. This was the first post as part of a new blogging setup I'm using and clearly I'm missing some of my old processes (like image resizing).
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