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Month: January 2022

GUUDGO 4CH 1080P Wireless Surveillance System Kit

January 23, 2022January 25, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral3 Comments on GUUDGO 4CH 1080P Wireless Surveillance System Kit

I’ve never had an NVR before so this is a novelty with a rather nice feature – the wireless cameras MESH which means I can have the NVR in my house-end office and the last camera at the very far end of the building even where I have no WiFi…

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More Fun with the Laser 1 Engraver and my Two Trees Table

January 23, 2022January 28, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral

I only just finished updating my Aufero Laser 1 article – and yesterday, from Banggood, my new mesh base arrived, assembled. Inclused in the pack is a full size aluminium plate and 6 adhesive pads. No documentation so I had to make guesses, I cut the pads in half, I…

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Fun with the New Ortur Aufero Laser 1 Engraver

January 20, 2022January 26, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral
Aufero Laser 1 Engraver

When I started the blog entry for this new entry-level laser engraver from Ortur, shipped to me by Zbanx back in November 2021, I thoroughly expected to spend half the day putting it together. I’d even thought of doing a video of the assembly process. Well, I was wrong –…

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Shelly Plus 1 and Plus 1PM Power Controllers

January 19, 2022January 27, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral2 Comments on Shelly Plus 1 and Plus 1PM Power Controllers
Shelly Plus 1

Way back in August 2019 I wrote about the Shelly 1 controller produced by Alterco Robotics in Sofia, Bulgaria. This at the time was one of a small but growing number of competitors to the likes of the very inexpensive Sonoff Basic. Later on, in March 2021 I followed this…

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The Death of a Sensor and other Tales of Woe

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral12 Comments on The Death of a Sensor and other Tales of Woe

We tend to rely more and more on our clever electronics these days – but here’s a timely, cautionary tale! My friend MAT over at NotEnoughTech has just TODAY written about the Tonga volcano and one of his Zigbee sensors which includes not only temperature but also a (generally) not…

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52PI Raspberry Pi Mini Tower NAS Kit

January 14, 2022January 9, 2024 Peter ScargillGeneral4 Comments on 52PI Raspberry Pi Mini Tower NAS Kit

I’m really not sure what to say about this 3D-printed kit – I’m not sure what I was expecting but not quite this. I was going to do a video but the way things turned out, a series of photos made more sense as I was putting this together. Here…

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Aqara temperature sensors and Node Red – Info Overload?

January 13, 2022November 3, 2024 Peter ScargillGeneral

AsI was sitting checking my Aqara Zigbee temperature sensors (blogged a while ago – the CR2032-powered model WSDCGQ11LM) using the Node-Red nodes for the job, I noted that if I covered the sensor with my hand for a few seconds, I’d get a reading – sadly, not just that but…

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Audew AX-6601 Handheld Vacuum from Banggood

January 12, 2022January 13, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral3 Comments on Audew AX-6601 Handheld Vacuum from Banggood

Ok, not exactly a SMART device but it’s the first thing I’ve had from Banggood this year (UK stock) so I thought I’d give it a quick comment with pics in here – my wife gets quite excited when something arrives which she can use!! The “AUDEW Rechargeable 3500PA Mini…

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PerfectPrime Tiny IR501 Thermal Camera Add-on for Android

January 10, 2022March 14, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral2 Comments on PerfectPrime Tiny IR501 Thermal Camera Add-on for Android
PerfectPrime IR501

I’m no stranger to PerfectPrime cameras – I’ve had several of them over the years and today I have the tiny IR501 in front of me – on my Pocophone X3 NFC. The link above will tell you all about the IR501 Multi-Point Dynamic monitoring Thermal Camera for Android Phones.…

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The All-New GL-iNET FLINT Router GL-AX1800

January 10, 2022January 11, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral19 Comments on The All-New GL-iNET FLINT Router GL-AX1800

By now I own or have owned and reviewed most GL-iNET router products. I started with the little travel MANGO router a few years ago and worked my way up so that now GL-iNET are currently my favourite routers (earlier in my tech life I was a great fan of…

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Meross Smart Plugs in 2022 – The MSS110

January 5, 2022January 27, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral10 Comments on Meross Smart Plugs in 2022 – The MSS110

It’s quite a while since I did my original write-up on Meross Smart Plug devices. I have a new one here in the UK, . This device has a UK plug on it and is SLIM – and that’s important – I have lots of smart plugs which are so…

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