Back in 2019 I reviewed the Sonoff POWR2 unit – an upgraded mains controller which, as against typical power controllers which handle 10A MAX (good for lighting, not so good for heating controls such as immersion heaters), handles 15A MAX along with power monitoring (at a push and for non-inductive…
Month: July 2022
GL iNET MT300N V2 (Mango) Travel Router Revisited
Update July 2022 Well, I never thought I’d be writing more about this router, but in the last couple of years I’ve become a firm fan of OpenWrt because of it’s ability to be administrated from the web interface LUCI or the command line. In particular I’ve been making great…
Banana Pi M5 SBC – Lots of Possibilities?
I rarely write about new SBCs (single board computers) these days, having covered LOTS of them in the past, then having pretty much settled on the Raspberry Pi 4. With the current inflated price and availability issues with the RPi, I’ve been asked to talk about other boards and the…
Momax SmartEye SL1S Internal IP WiFi Camera and more!
This is probably starting to look like camera week already – I just received some Momax products in the mail including a pair of internal WiFi IP cameras – ok, so who are Momax? I must admit I’d not heard of them until I heard from someone I’ve dealt with…
FriendlyElec NanoPi R5S for Geeks
Long-term readers of this blog will know I’ve reviewed MANY FriendlyArm/FriendlyElec boards in the past but things have been quiet for some time now (Covid won’t have helped). Well, it looks like they are back in action – new WiKi site and a new board. I have the boxed version…