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Questions tagged [iot]

This tag is supposed to be used in relation to the Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things, or IoT for short, is a concept describing an infrastructure of intercommunicating and interacting of objects from single sensors, through fridges, toothbrushes, heaters, lamps, to cars, drones, planes and robots, artificial dogs and space probes, comprising their own .

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How to connect to the internet, via a bluetooth access point, from command line

The question may seem highly specific, but I didn't seem any answer anywhere. Accessing the internet via a bluetooth access point sounds like an odd choice, but I believe it's the right one in my case, where a very small machine with a small…
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installing eclipse/paho.mqtt c++ client on Debian

I'm developing a C++ program (for a home IoT Project) on Debian 9 that needs to act as an MQTT client. I found paho.mqtt would be helpful in this regard, but none of the on-line documentations to install it worked so far. Does anyone has any…
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Line-ending problem with Telnet: can't remove LF from CRLF when sending command

I am unable to get Telnet to send only CR (\r) at the end of a command, despite setting the crlf toggle to (see example below). Instead, Telnet always sends CR-LF (\r\n). My goal: retrieve data from a remote device connected to a…
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How to test shellshock against remote machine using a simple script

I am interested in testing for shellshock vulnerable machines that I don't have shell access to on my LAN's and WAN's such as IPMI cards and Internet of Things devices. What is the best way to remotely verify the vulnerability on machines? Does…
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Telnet equivalent for USB connected devices?

I'm starting to play with Internet of Things type development boards (originally Arduino, now ESP8266, RaspPi and CHIP). And one thing I'm struggling with is connecting to them from a Linux machine. Arduino: I use the basic Arduino environment to…
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What do you use when you can't use Bash?

I am trying to make a shell script that runs on a widest variety of *nix systems. So, if I wrote a bash script backwards compatible with old versions of the shell, but what if bash wasn't on the system? For example, is there another commonly used…
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Make a Wi-Fi emitting device visible on another network

I have a raspberry pi connected by wifi to a sensor (network A) that emits its own Wi-Fi signal and that is controlled from an Android application on a device connected to the Wi-Fi that emits the sensor and by cable to a wifi repeater (network B).…
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What are the best practices for configuring durable IOT Linux devices? Should I use an Overlay File System?

In the past our company used raspberry pi's for our IOT application. The problem with that was that SD cards wear out and get corrupt. We now ordered Compulab SBC's with eMMC storage running Debian. So what would be the best practices to configure…
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Mosquitto with encrypted key automatic start

mosquitto service does not support config parameter to put the password in for the encrypted private key. It asks for it on start of the service, which is not convenient for IoT device. I do not want to discusse here security impacts etc as it is a…
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Prevent VAP from accessing the internet (with ebtables)

I'm trying to find a way to connect smart home devices to my local network but deny them access to the internet. Rather than set individual rules bound to an IP address, I'm trying to create a virtual WiFi on my DD-WRT router that has access to the…
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how can I detect if my infinite cp command has failed using bash

I have a little data collector, a Raspberry Pi Zero W, which, on boot, mounts a remote folder on mnt using sshfs. The data transfer is effected using a cp command, e.g., cp device file & where device is local and file is in the remote folder. This…
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WPS Push-Button for Bluetooth?

Is there any such thing like the WPS Push-Button function for Bluetooth? I would like to connect a headless IoT device to a smartphone. Unfortunately the IoT device has no input capability (just a button).
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LPAd (eSIM) Linux?

Is anyone aware of a LPAd for Linux devices, both Android and Windows support this as of currently. I have searched the internet and was unable to find any information about if / or an eSIM LPAd will ever be supported on Linux. Maybe someone is…
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can't get service to run on Rock64 SBC

I have a python script that displays the current IP address and time to a LCD screen attached to my device (Rock64 SBC). The python script runs fine on it's own. from subprocess import check_output from time import sleep from datetime import…
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Connection two raspberry PI via Wi-Fi direct

I wanted to play with the Wi-Fi direct protocol and really understand it as I want to pretend I have a sensor network that follows the pattern: wake up establish a network trade data disconnect wait for next window and repeat. I have come close,…
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