I made a big deal out of these back in February, but one of my solar lights has given up due to internal corrosion (unusually wet winter/early spring) so I sent off for a replacement – we had a pair of owls in the garden and for reasons beyond me,…
Month: June 2021
Xiaomi Mijia 1S Vacuum Part 2 – the Spares
I’m not going to say any more about my superb point-scoring-with-the-wife Xiaomi (prounounced something like SHOWMEE) Smart AI vacuum – but of course with any such gadget, no matter how good it is, there is always the question of spares (example – bargains back in the UK at B&M or…
Itead WiFi Gadgets and More
I have just received a second temperature-sensing module (see my recent articles on Zigbee) which I have suitably renamed from the default cryptic name to SNZB-02-2 and this came complete with a battery sitting at 100% – here’s a thing, outside in our pergola, I’ve had a DHT22 module attached…
Zigbee development Part 2 – Aqara Sensors and buttons
I’m becoming increasingly impressed by the tiny Aqara sensors – first of today’s bunch – And here below is the motion sensor, running smoothly with my new Electrolama ZZH dongle (coordinator) running Zigbee2MQTT. I long-pressed the tiny button on the side/top/bottom of the sensor and the ZZH immediately picked it…
Non-Contact IR InfraRed Thermometer
I just received this in the post from Banggood… looking good but at first I was a bit confused about the access control – according to the box there should be contacts under a quality control label on the bottom – no contacts for access control on mine. It turns…
Owon HDS272S Handheld Oscilloscope
Over the years I’ve had a number of Owon scopes, function generators and power supplies – so I’m pleased to now have my hands on their handheld HDS272S, a new, portable dual-channel scope which can also be used as a multimeter and function generator. As you’ll see, the scope/meter has…
Xiaovv B1 3MP Waterproof Outdoor IP Camera
Ok, so another outdoor video camera – so what? Well, unlike some other low-priced IP cameras – this one is 3MP as against 2MP – that’s a good start – and I noted it uses the V380 APP – which I already use with other WiFi IP cameras. AI human…
Atomic Radio-Controlled Silent Clock
This will be a short one about this I just received from Banggood – not much you can say about a radio clock module that isn’t in the spec above though I have changed my original reviwe having realised the clock is not entierly reliable here in Granada region of…
Bluetooth 5 Earbuds Comparison
In today’s postbag, two sets of earbuds arrived. Here they are… and the . As usual, cost willl vary depending on where you live – see the links above for details and technical specs To look at, there’s not a lot between these models. The AA-UM10 are branded Lutus NL…
Alexa-Applestrudel (formerly Cakebaked formerly Remote2)
That’s node-red-contrib-alexa-applestrudel etc. – but the title was getting too long:-). This article is about Alexa-related “nodes” for Node-Red. To give this set of eight nodes (seven visible) their full title, the original offering was known as node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 and when I first wrote this blog entry in September 2019. The…
Doogee S96 Pro Global Smartphone – Lovely
I LOVE getting new phones. the arrived this morning and with caviats I’m impressed for a budget phone. You can get the full spec from the Banggood link I’ve just entered above but I’ll give you some key points and my experience so far in here. The images above are…