A box arrived yesterday (post August 2024 – updating November 2024) for my new Apollo Air-1 C02 sensor and other items. No information, thankfully the Apollo Automation website is full of it. The device, like others in the range, at the time of writing comes in a low-volume 3D printed…
Month: August 2024
Nank OE MIX Earbuds
This one came out of the blue – the company (naenka.com – I’d never heard of them before) contacted me and asked if I’d write about their earbuds. As always “only if you send a set – no conditions”. Ok, so they did and days later, a set of buds…
The Aqara FP1E Presense Sensor
Some time ago I reviewed the Aqara FP2 Presense Sensor. I like it but it keeps seeing 2 people in my office when there is only me – even with the latest updates. So, I thought I’d better try the later FP1E. Here it is straight out of the box.…
TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX
OK, not my normal tech stuff – or isn’t it? The Tomlov DM9 microscope came out of the blue – I was not aware of the company until just a short time ago when they contacted me by the contact page in here. They asked me if I’d like to…
SMARTLIGHT.ME, Ethernet Zigbee Controllers and more…
I recently wrote about my first experience with the SMLIGHT SLZB-06 Ethernet Zigbee coordinator given to me by a good friend in the UK (and left there – working well – I’m now back in Spain). That prompted me to contact the company who make them – here’s a link…
ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring
The point of this article is/was to show how inexpensive ESP32 boards can be used as ESPRESENSE points in places around the home (for example) for detecting people and animals hopefully better than simple IR units. People carry phones and/or smart-bands – animals can wear tiny, inexpensive BLE beacon devices…
An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday
It’s Friday and I got up VERY early this morning and in this entry I have new devices from SHELLY – a pair of SHELLY MOTION devices (about which I’m quite excited) – and a not-so-new but handy Shelly RGBW PM Led Controller.. but I’ll get to these further down!…
Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06
I’m excited – as you’ll see below I have left my new SMLight SLZB-06 ETHERNET Zigbee coordinator in the UK – working well (but not at all stressed) and I have one coming to Spain this coming week. That leaves the question – what to do with my Sonoff-P and…