How To Remotely Monitor Your Windows, Home, Office
Here’s what you’ll need for affordable remote monitoring of your windows in your home, office, or anywhere else: Valarm Pro installed on an Android device Yoctopuce Yocto-Knob sensor A magnet switch for each window (up to 5 per Yocto-Knob sensor) 1. Connect your phone or tablet with the Yocto-Knob using a USB OTG cable. Use [...]
How healthy is your air?
Quality of life and air quality are important for citizens all around the world, but how do you know what your environment is really like? The air we breathe every day has volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as methane (from human breath), alcohol (cleaning supplies), formaldehyde (materials for building), ketones (paints), esters (glues), and terpenes (perfume). [...]
Remote Micro-Climate Monitoring: Solar-powered Valarm in a Vineyard
One of Valarm’s main uses is remote environmental monitoring. Valarm is a cost-efficient tool for remotely monitoring any environment such as a farm, pipes in your basement, a room full of computer servers, water levels and flood alerts, light levels and intruder alerts, and the air quality (CO2 and volatile organic compounds, VOCs) in schoolrooms [...]
How To Use Valarm Sensors for Flood Alerts and Water Detection
Is your basement flooding or water heater leaking? Do you want to keep track of the water level in your swimming pool, rainwater reservoir or personal fishing pond? How much water or liquid nutrient is remaining in the container for your plants? Valarm is a mobile app for (smart) phones and tablets that can [...]
How To Use Valarm, a Laser Pen, Mirror, and Light Sensor for Intruder Detection
Ever wanted to catch an intruder when they trip a laser beam? Want to know how many times your pet (or anything else) is going in and out of your house? Someone sneaking into a place they shouldn’t be? Using Valarm with a Yoctopuce “Yocto-Knob” allows you to DIY a powerful, internet + SMS connected, [...]
Valarm update: Yoctopuce Yocto-Knob
We’ve released v1.1.0* of Valarm Pro, which includes support for the incredibly fun and useful Yocto-Knob sensor†. This sensor allows you to monitor and record the status of up to 5 potentiometers. This includes normal rheostats/potentiometers, as well as buttons, switches, and any sensor which operates by altering resistance. This includes force-sensitive resistors (FSR) and garden variety [...]
How To Use Valarm For Vehicle, Asset, Teen, and Fleet Tracking
Howdy! In this How To tutorial you’ll learn how Valarm can be used as a general asset tracker. This could be used to track a single vehicle that may be driven by a sneaky teen. Or it could be used to track a motorcycle, any really expensive asset such as a guitar or camera equipment, entire [...]
How To Use Valarm for Remote Home Monitoring
Ever wanted an economical way to know if the temperature (or humidity, barometric pressure, other factors) of a remote location such as your house goes above or below your custom setting? With a Valarm-equipped Android device you will receive e-mails, SMS/text messages, and/or updates to web map tools. Follow this how-to document to learn more! [...]
How To Link the Valarm Mobile App with Valarm Tools Web
1. In this tutorial we’ll connect our Valarm device to Valarm Tools Web and sync our data. First, get Valarm in the app store. We recommend devices running Android 3.1 or newer install Valarm Pro, which includes support for external USB sensors. Valarm Classic is available for devices running Android older than 3.1. 2. [...]
How To Use Valarm SMS / Text Message Alerts & Remote Control
New article now available on how to use Valarm for SMS / Text Message Alerts and Remote Control!