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
Looks-wise, the RLC-1224A is plain white and nothing to write home about but I was determined to have at least one ultra-hi-res exterior camera in my repertoire and I’m not disappointed. The hardwired (Ethernet) RLC-1224A is really hi-res – 12Mpx and has a large aperture F1.6 lense. The full description…
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…