I extended my ZigBee Site Survey Tool with an interoperability chart displaying ZigBee and WiFi networks as well. I found some on npmjs.com some modules supplying the WiFi information of the system and some of them worked quite well – at least in the first few tests. Digging deeper I always found some details which made
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How to include a file in a Jade template which might not be here
I had the problem that I had to include a Jade template from the filesystem which was optional: if it’s here, use it, otherwise just ignore it. Jade does neither allow conditional includes nor includes of non existing files. The solution for my problem was rendering the file in the code and passing the HTML to
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A node.js based tool for ZigBee measurements
Before installing your ZigBee nodes you most likely want to know whether the signal strength of the network is good enough for operation. For this purpose I recently wrote a tool for ZigBee site surveys working with a 17$ USB dongle from MMB Networks. Find out more about this tool on its GitHub page.