I’m sitting here, early morning in the UK, devoid of my normal IOT devices and with reviews waiting for me.. but all of that will have to wait for our return to Spain at the end of the month and after getting our new house in order. Meanwhile I’m getting…
Month: January 2026
A sometimes-forgotten reason to use Tasmota
With humble apologies to those of you who use TASMOTA all the time…. TASMOTA is a piece of firmware for IoT devices running on ESP8266 and ESP32 that has been around for a long, long time. It runs entirely locally on your network, there are no adverts, there is no…
NEW – Sonoff Airguard PM3.5 and Airguard CO2
Released on December 11, 2025, these two new identical-looking products run on USB power (each comes with a 2m USB-A to USB-C lead). On opening the package, I thought at first that Sonoff had sent me two of the same product. It took me a few seconds to realise the…
AthomTech IoTorero LS6P Addressable Strip Controller
I make my own WLED strip controllers regularly from either ESP32-C3 or ESP8266 boards – cheap, easy – a bit more painful when you add sound reactive ability as you really need a little PCB for the sound sensor – and of course a box – but here we have…
IoTorero Door Sensor, Temperature, Humidity
After all the setup simplicity of the last two IoTorero products, this one was not initially doing quite so well for me but it turns out I did things the hard way. Firstly no product ID on the box (but it turns out that on their website – there’s a…
The IoTorero Presence Sensor PS02C3MZ
You can guess why the “C3” in the name – an ESP32-C3 chip at the heart. By now, I’m well familiar with modern radar presence sensors, having used and reviewed the Seed product and various from Apollo to name, but two. I did think Apollo was going to be unbeatable,…
The very first 2026 Review – IoTorero RGB
What a GREAT start to the new year. In case you don’t know, IoTorero is the new brand name for AthomTech products. I was expecting some boring old lights for our new home from AliExpress, but no, a package from AthomTech arrived this morning and the very first thing I…