News, technical deep dives, and updates from the ControlBird team
Configuring a building system by hand is days of repetitive clicking, one room and one wire at a time. Describing it in a conversation instead works well on a clean input and makes real mistakes on a messy one. What keeps that safe is a plain-language approval card: nothing is written until you accept it, so a wrong proposal costs one click.
Read more →A frost night, a stuck vent, or a pump nobody was watching costs more than the sensors would have. What a greenhouse monitoring system actually needs to watch, the real options for a grower running one to a handful of greenhouses, and where a general-purpose platform on ordinary hardware fits.
Read more →A recurring theme on r/homeassistant: a workshop, shop, or small facility outgrows a home automation setup once a second person needs access, an inspector wants a history, or a piece of real equipment with a Modbus port shows up. A look at where that line sits, what Home Assistant for business actually requires once you cross it, and how ControlBird compares.
Read more →Phone and text alerts on a wet well level are worth paying for, which is why dedicated callout hardware with a monthly plan has long been the default for lift and pump stations. Here is what a pump station needs monitored, what that dedicated-hardware route gives you, what a do-it-yourself build gives you, and where a software platform on commodity hardware fits.
Read more →Every "affordable SCADA software" listicle ranks VTScada, Movicon, and Ignition Edge starting around $1,000, but rarely explains what that number buys or what changes as you move up. A tier-by-tier look at what SCADA software actually costs, and where ControlBird's free Community edition and Cloud plans fit into that picture.
Read more →A step-by-step walkthrough that takes a Modbus TCP device from bare registers to a live dashboard tile in ControlBird Community Edition. No code, no license fee, about ten minutes once the device is reachable.
Read more →Small water systems have been stuck choosing between SCADA they cannot afford and going without. That gap is closing. Here is what monitoring a tank, a well pump, or a lift station actually takes today, and a clear-eyed look at what fits a system with a few dozen connections.
Read more →ControlBird is now open for public beta. Here is the gap we set out to fill between Home Assistant, ThingsBoard, and Ignition, and why small businesses and serious hobbyists have been stuck in the middle.
Read more →Learn how ControlBird connects to industrial and IoT devices using protocol controllers, the mapper pattern, and an extensible catalog of ready-made integrations.
Read more →A deep dive into the hierarchical entity store at the heart of ControlBird, its sub-millisecond performance characteristics, and the notification-driven service model.
Read more →Deploy a fully managed automation instance in under two minutes and start connecting your devices, building dashboards, and automating your environment today.
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