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How can I make Alexa read my United Kingdom Audible books from an Echo device in India?

I have many audio books purchased in United Kingdoms Audible account. I can still hear them on my smartphone. I have recently moved to India and purchased amazon echo device. I do not have any books in my Audible India account. Alexa always says no…
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Is there any solution to run any RTOS on windows/linux virtual machine?

I am writing firmware for different boards supporting FreeRTOS, Zephyr, ... My problem is when I am developing the firmware, I should run the firmware on the "real" device from the beginning and makes it: Hard to debug the code, view variables, ...…
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Is MQTT-SN still "new" or is it obsolete?

I have an existing IoT project based on MQTT and am looking at extending the application to include battery powered end nodes using Zigbee mesh. It logically seems the most appropriate way to do this is by using MQTT-SN over Zigbee for these…
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Advanced Universal Remote or basic home automation

I need an advice on sort of basic home automation. Let's say, I have 3 multimedia points in my home. 2 of them are TVs with attached recievers, players and game consoles, almost everything is network-attached. The other one is just a stereo reciever…
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Why does MQTT Broker forget connection from SIM800 module?

I am working on SIM800 module and MQTT broker (Mosquitto) to design a kind of IoT device. When I try the MQTT server, I encountered this problem. The SIM800 connects MQTT server on TCP connection. You can see the code below about SIM800 TCP…
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Accessing legacy device with RS232 over 4G Internet

I have an old device, that's located in a place where I don't have an easily accessible data connection. What I do today is I drive to where this device is located and plug a db9 rs232 serial connector to this device and turn on a laptop that has…
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CCS811 eCO2 readings factors wrong

I have an ESP8266 (Wemos D1 mini pro v2.0.0) running esphome.io measuring CO2 with an Winsen MHZ-19B and an Adafruit AMS CCS811. I would like to use only the CCS811 to save power and space, however the CCS811 gives weird values So far, I've…
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Smart Door options

I'm looking for a ready-to-use Smart Door in a room. I want to control it via app (Bluetooth or direct wifi is ok) or by voice commands. It should have the following skills: open close lock unlock I tried googling this, but the problem is that I…
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LORA VS NRF24L01

I want to chooses between nrf24l01 and lora-ra02 for my smart home project The following parameters are very important to me distance range (covering an area of 400 square meters) Ability to cross hard objects life time Build quality
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2-Way Switching with Alexa - how to get Alexa to toggle the switch regardless of it's state

I have Alexa controlling a smart relay, which is part of a two way circuit with a regular light switch. It works well bar one thing: if the relay is "off" and the manual switch is on, telling Alexa to turn the light off does not work; she says OK,…
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How do IOT platforms like Blynk, ThingSpeak etc. communicate with hardware (e.g. ESP8266) without port forwarding?

I use port forwarding if I want to access my local server NodeMCU from internet. However if I use IOT platforms like Blynk, ThingSpeak... then I dont need to care about port forwarding. We can access our device easily using their auth token and URL…
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Can Alexa be used to warn others if I become incapacitated?

I'm not elderly, but I live by myself and wonder if there is a way to set up Alexa or the like to send a text message & email to my relatives if I become incapacitated. Obvious signs of Incapacitation would be a 20-hour period of Not leaving the…
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Wireless IoT Devices at mm-wave frequencies

The upcoming 5G can be beneficial for IoT in various aspects: higher data-rates low latency better utilization of bandwidth potential wireless power transfer/harvest Introduction of mm-waves (28 GHz and higher) would be a part of 5G standards.…
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What IoT services are available for free that does not have message rate limit?

let say my other device publishes messages every 10ms (trying to show a real time graph in mobile app) sending at slower rate i.e every 1s instead of 10ms would result to wrong output. Are there any other free services where in I can pub/sub…
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Play music through Sonos and Google Home at same time?

Is it possible to play music through both my Sonos speakers and Google Home at the same time? I have successfully set up Google Assistant on my Sonos and connected everything to the Google Home app, but can't seem to use all speakers at once.…
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