IoT with Solar Panels, and a Raspberry Pi!

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For this month, we are lucky enough to have Aaron Powell presenting on..

== A Home Hackers Guide to IoT ==
Aaron Powell (@slace)

You've bought a Raspberry Pi and made some lights blink, yay, IoT done! But where do we go next? This is the position I found myself in recently but decided that rather than relegating the device to a shelf I'd try and make a real project, a project to monitor the power generation from my solar panels inverter.

Armed with the knowledge of how to scrape the data I decided to set about creating an IoT project that would allow me to pull the data out of my inverter, store it for reporting and answer questions like “How can I compare my power generation today to yesterday or last week?", “If I was able to build up enough data over time what insights could I get into my energy usage patterns?” or “Are there other interesting things I can determine by looking at this data?".

So come on a journey as we look at how to create an application to run on an IoT device, push it to the cloud and leverage an eventing model to process our data. We’ll explore everything from local development to CI/CD and turn you into an IoT hacker.

== Speaker Bio ==
Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Having spent 15 years doing web development he's seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits.

NOTE: The group meets in the Sydney CBD, near Wynyard station, not in Revesby (there's been some map bugs around this)!
Address for copy paste: level 10/50 Carrington St, Sydney NSW 2000
Google maps link: https://goo.gl/maps/oaBFbAYyjGB2