Well, this came as a surprise – I was expecting a WiFi new camera from Aqara to arrive this week, when this large box arrived – came as something of a surprise that the Reolink arrived first. The Reolink RLC-823S2 is a 12v or POE camera (POE adaptor not included…
Month: February 2025
The new Aqara Camera Hub G5 Pro
The Aqara Hub G5 Pro runs over WiFi and is not only a full true-colour night vision camera (image sensor 1/1/1.8″ – aperture f/1.0, resolution 2688*1520, field-of-view 133 degrees diagonal) but also a hub. It runs off 5v at up to 2A and handles both 2.4 and 5Ghz WiFi. Other…
Aqara P1 Motion Sensor – Something New?
Back at the end of 2022 I wrote about Aqara’s P1 Motion Sensor – but then I looked a couple of weeks ago at their press releases and saw the word NEW in there – something to do with improved battery life I wonder? Anyway one of them just turned…
Apollo Air-1 CO2 and other Sensors for Home Assistant
A box arrived August 2024 – for my (then) 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 came in a low-volume 3D printed casing – always nice…
Argon40 Argon NEO5 + Poly+5 RPi5 Cases
This might be of interest to those of you who own one or more Raspberry Pi 5 boards (NOT previous models such as RPi3 or 4). Important February updates at the end. Argon40 have been around for some years now, producing a range of cases for various Raspberry Pi models.…
The Reolink RLC 1224A UHD PoE Camera
I’m somewhat overdue overdue to review the Reolink RLC 1224A 12MP UHD PoE Camera with colour night-vision but please bear with me – 2 months in the UK for cataract operations and flu in the middle of it didn’t help. I’ve updated this blog entry on February 2, 2025 now…
The Sonoff Mini-D (MINI-Dry) WiFi Smart Switch
Erm, what? This is a new Sonoff product in the MINI series – this time simply with DRY contacts instead of having one connection commoned to the incoming power. Back in the early days there was a 4-channel Sonoff controller (rather big) with isolated outputs but that has largely been…