Node–RED is a fantastic and powerful yet easy to use programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. For more information on Node-Red go to the Node-Red site. BigTimer is the the most powerful and best-ever, most comprehensive timing node for Node-Red,…
Month: May 2019
Sonoff S26 Wifi Smart Plug
You may well have seen plenty of reviews and adverts for the Sonoff S26 WiFi Smart plug so I won’t go into too much technical detail here other than to say this VERY inexpensive wall socket can easily be re-flashed to run alternative software for those not to keen on…
ESP GO update and more
A minor update for ESP-GO – still working on the Espressif SDK 3.1 version as RBOOT is still not OTA-ing reliably (everything else does)– but the SDK 2.1 version is working a treat – very reliable. There WAS an issue due to some recent updates, with the web setup –…
Brelong HT033 Desktop fan with Time/Temperature
This little number turned up from Gearbest today in the postbag here in Spain. The “Subute 4 inch display fan” is a USB-powered fan which tells the time and temperature using a set of LEDs on one of the blades – and I have to say it does it very…
21st Century Mosquito Killer
In today’s post, a simple insect killer from Gearbest. When I say simple, it has a couple of things my old fly killer didn’t – indeed it LOOKS a lot better than the last one. When I say “fly” I mean of course flying insects and here in Southern Spain,…
Node-Red-Contrib-Timeout
I’ve just fixed a startup bug in my node-red-contrib-timeout node for Node-Red. This is as always, available at https://flows.nodered.org also at https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-timeout The current version then is 1.1.3 which puts out the SAFE message at start-up and starts the default count-down. Interested viewers will find that as well as the…