Once again it’s time to put up the Christmas lights on this year. I’m fitting those lovely string WS2812 LED lights to the tree. 400+ of them. Of course it’s 2025 and so we’ll be using WLED as usual – but this time with a sparkly new miniature and trendy…
Month: November 2025
Nous AZ7 Smart Zigbee Socket
Not a lot to say about the Nous ZigBee socket AZ7 except to say it’s a fairly normal looking smart socket with a button on the side for manual override on/off. It’s designed to run on ZigBee 3.0 (not WiFi) and handle 3680w load – that would be resistive load…
Nous Zigbee Household Combustible Gas Detector
The Nous E9 Gas Centre Spec reads as follows: Network Zigbee 3.0, operating voltage 100-240 volts… HOLD THE PHONE… it’s Zigbee. Why do we want 240 volts? OK, I’ve recovered from the shock. 240 volts it is – so it’s not only a sensor – it’s a Zigbee router. There’s…
The Nous L14 Zigbee Smart Water Valve
You might want to look up my Sonoff BSP article in here for comparison – as the L14 device is in many ways similar to the BSP. The Nous L14 is a Zigbee smart water valve. It is compatible with Zigbee2MQTT, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa. Regular readers will know…
First Xmas Gift – The Apollo H-2 2025
If you’ve read my other Apollo blog entries, you’ll know I’m very impressed by their presence sensors and other ESP-based gadgets. This morning in the post arrived a small box from Apollo containing the Apollo annual holiday light-up, music-playing Xmas tree. Sadly, the Spanish post office didn’t believe the Apollo…
The All-New Sonoff Orb 4-in-1 Zigbee Button
Multi-scene buttons are not new, especially Zigbee. I have one or two from Aqara but this new Zigbee “scene switch” has a couple of features worth noting. It runs on a CR2477 battery and has four actual buttons in the one round removable button, which simply magnetically mounts to the…
NanoKVM Pro – Another new contender
Unlike the JetKVM, this new NanoKVM Pro, on connecting USB power and which came from the target machine, and the HDMI, this time a full-size HDMI connector, the target PC came up in my main PC browser (I found the address of the KVM from my router – I could…