Prelude Before I go off on one, talking about Itead’s recent gadgets which arrived on my doorstep this week, let’s take a quick step back: Sonoff is a brand name, Itead is the Shenzhen-based company who make various devices using the Sonoff brand and very often relying on the APP…
Month: December 2021
Trio Max Portable Laptop Monitor from Mobilepixels Inc
Just today I opened a newly-arrived package from MobilePixels – a 14″ 1080FHD USB-C extension monitor. Made primarily for laptops and tablets the monitor provides up to 1920*1080 as a secondary or third monitor. I should say right away, these are not cheap. I opened the package, thinking it would…
UGREEN HiTune X6 Hybrid Active Earbuds
The full title should be “UGREEN HiTune X6 Hybrid Active Noise-Cancelling Earbuds“. Well, earbuds are earbuds, right? These were sent to me FOC so I thought the least I could do was give them a good run. Bluetooth 5.1. Playback time 6 hours of music without resorting to the case,…
TP-Link Tapo C200 Pan/Tilt WiFi Camera
Regular readers will know I’ve had MANY WiFi cameras in here but never TP-Link so this is a first. For clarity I should say I’m currently in the UK. The very first thing that struck me during box opening was the almost complete lack of throw away plastic. The camera…
Amazon AWS Polly Neural Speech on RPi
Regular readers will know that for years I was a great fan of using Ivona speech on my Raspberry Pi. In Node-Red I used the free Ivona service to provide high quality speech in Node-Red at the heart of my home control setup. Well, Ivona, good as it was, has…
The Confusing World of Zigbee featuring ZemiSmart
Of course – this could all be down to my age – but I find Zigbee in practice to be both exciting and confusing. I am currently supposed to be reviewing some devices from ZemiSmart. Original post late 2020… Updated July 2023. So, the Zemismart company sent me one of…