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 “Solar Acrylic LED Lawn Lamp” – we had a pair of owls in the garden…
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 Sonoff SNZB-02 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…
Zigbee development Part 2 – Aqara Sensors and buttons
I’m becoming increasingly impressed by the tiny Aqara sensors – first of today’s bunch – Original Aqara Smart Motion Sensor 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…
Non-Contact IR InfraRed Thermometer
I just received this non-contact IR thermometer 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…
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 clock module 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…
Bluetooth 5 Earbuds Comparison
In today’s postbag, two sets of earbuds arrived. Here they are… AIRAUX AA-UM10 TWS Earphones and the BlitzWolf® BW-ANC3 bluetooth V5.0 Earphones. 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…
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 8G/128G Doogee S96 Pro 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.…