The X1 is a low-cost bracelet but easy to use, could be a winner. Here’s the full title – XANES X1 0.96” TFT Color Screen IP67 Waterproof Smart Watch. Banggood sent this to me along with a Heija B1800 which I’m struggling with (“location fail” is all I could get…
Month: October 2019
ZemiSmart Discount Day at AliExpress
Regular readers will know I go out of my way to avoid anything remotely approaching outright advertising – after all I do this absolutely for fun, not profit. But read on, I feel obliged to help out ZemiSmart. Firstly they sent me some kit not knowing me from Adam (as…
SQLITE3 Raspberry Pi Problems and Solutions
I KNOW I’m not the only one who has issues with SQLITE3 in Raspberry Pi and Node-Red, so next time it happens to you… here is some invaluable info… I just used the lines below on my second Raspberry Pi 4 which had been upgraded to Raspbian Buster (from Raspbian…
Node Red 1.0.2 is OUT
Not only is there a new release of Node-Red i.e. 1.0.2 – I also noted there is some new video material to go with it. Congratulations to Nick O’Leary, Dave Conway Jones and others. If you’re interested, I suggest a look here… Much more later when I figure out how…
Huawei Honor 5 Smart Band
Here we have the Huawei Honor Band 5 Smart Bracelet – as you may know I’ve had dozens of these Smart bracelets and watches in the last couple of years – and my favourite up to now remains the Mi band 4 AMOLED Colour Screen Wristband, however a friend of…
Pocophone F1 with Pixel 4 Camera
I’ve had (and used constantly) my Xiaomi Pocophone F1 for many, many months now and hence I can speak with much authority on the subject. For those unaware of this smartphone, it comes from Xiaomi who produce a range of phones as well as smart bands and other tech gadgets…
A9 Mini WIFI HD 1080P Wireless IP Camera
April 2020 – the APP for this camera is no longer available on the Android Playstore and the QR Code takes you to a dead website – another nail in the coffin for cloud-based cameras? I don’t think it is ONVIF compatible, the picture quality is variable and it seems…
ijoou Smart Moxibustion Device
The ijoou-B02 is a USB-powered (5v-1amp) pearly white “Smart Moxibustion Device” made in China by Shenzen Baichuanai Technology – here’s their website… In short, two round heating units on which you fix replaceable adhesive pads (moxa patches) so you can stick the two units on your arms, back etc at…
A Blitzwolf Week including the SS1
Not a company I’ve ever associated with home control, Blitzwolf do some decent battery packs – but now they have a neat little IOT mains relay controller of their own. not to mention their own mains relay control board just like Sonoff (well, not really). So, first off the bat,…
Besiter 20,000maH Power Pack
This on’e a little more beefy than previous power packs I’ve recently looked at (I did sayI had a backlog). The Besiter 20000mAh QC3.0 Quick Charge Dual USB LED Display Power Bank is a solid-looking and only JUST pocket-sized battery pack able to handle type-C, micro-usb and full USB-S connections…
A95X Android 9 TV Box
Ok, that’s done. I am more grateful than you might imagine for a speedy delivery from China – Banggood sent me the latest A95X TV box which is around £37 inc post right now. But perhaps the main reason I’m grateful is we just arrived back in the UK from…
The life of a solar panel
Here’s something you don’t see in the garden solar light adverts.. what you’re seeing in the frosty photo below is not untypical weather for the Northeast of England from November through February. When I originally wrote this blog entry I’d had it up to here with cheap garden lights and…
Uninterruptible Power Field Day
I’ve been messing with uninterruptible power supply issues for years and with Raspberry Pi and similar needing (only at leak of course) 3A 5v power, I’ve looked at various alternatives. Here’s a thought for motorists who are IOT enthusiasts as well.. I just solved the issue of ninterruptible power for…
Cheap Water/flood Sensor
Most DIY type will at one time or another have pondered water sensing – I wasted lots of time with cheap resistive garden sensors a few years go before realising that galvanic current would eventually kill them, then I hit on the capacitive sensors – and even one controlled by…
Blitzwolf BW-PF2 Type C Power Bank
And what is this you might ask? Well, I’m a great believer that you can’t have too many QC3.0 power banks (i.e. FAST charging). I use them all the time for our various Smartphones in the UK and in Spain. This model is the “BlitzWolf® BW-P9 10000mAh 18W QC3.0 PD3.0…
Bakeey Glass for Pocophone F1
IMHO the most important thing next to having a sparkly SmartPhone is to have sparkly screen protectors to keep the phone looking new. If you follow the blog you’ll know I’m particularly proud of my Pocophone F1 and want to keep it in the best possible condition. To that end…
Rechargeable Desk Cooling Fan with Light
To give this lovely fan its proper title… Wireless 3000mAh 2 In 1 Mini Cooling Fan Or: I love it: “Little Sunny Baldness Fan”. And here’s the fan itself… Smashing job, 3 speeds and a white light inside. Lowest speed almost silent, overall quiet and it has no visible blades,…