Argon40 Argon NEO5 + Poly+5 RPi5 Cases by tim Rowledge: Just for fun – and a side bet with Eben – I now have one of my Replica AstroPi cases equipped with a Pi 5 & NVME SSD. It looks a little rough because my hand filing skills are decidedly rusty, but so what? Feb 17, 18:53
The Sonoff Mini-D (MINI-Dry) WiFi Smart Switch by : no templates available on blakadder site, so probably not… but why? it’s matter, and you can enable lan mode, so fully local in both cases… Feb 16, 10:56A New Year’s AI Treat by : https://chatgpt.com/share/67aac3f9-5b64-800b-94c2-21e127a85848 Feb 11, 05:33
The Sonoff Mini-D (MINI-Dry) WiFi Smart Switch by : Can it be tasmotised? Should be an easy way to add automation to a garage door / gate opener by the looks of it. Feb 8, 02:42
The Sonoff Mini-D (MINI-Dry) WiFi Smart Switch by : Maybe, a mismatch Rating : it is the power consomption of the product itself (240V or 12-48V) Load : it is the switch capability It looks like it is designed as a low power switch, more info : https://sonoff.tech/product/diy-smart-switches/mini-d/ Feb 6, 18:34
The Sonoff Mini-D (MINI-Dry) WiFi Smart Switch by : You would THINK it would say 10a or even 1a.. But look at the box, it absolutely says 0.1a. followed that up with Sonoff – see updated blog. Feb 6, 12:12The Sonoff Mini-D (MINI-Dry) WiFi Smart Switch by : Current is current surely that should still say 1amp @230vac. Doesn’t make sense unless there isn’t a truly isolated set of clean contacts. And potential for crossover at the higher voltage. The whole point of using one of these would be to avoid using a SPCO or DCPO which what we are all doing in practice with Sonoff. But at such low amperage we would only end up driving a coil so back to square one! Feb 6, 02:10
- Shelly H&T Generation 3 and Much More by : I must admit – I like the Sonoff product – which brings me to my next article – I’m back from my winter break in the UK to get my eyes fixed and I’ve come back to my new sample of the Sonoff MINI DRY – more on that in the forthcoming article of the same name… Feb 5, 23:43
Shelly H&T Generation 3 and Much More by : But you can’t really compare Shelly 1 Mini (Gen 3) with Sonoff ZBmini Extreme that does not need neutral wire for operation, I agree Shelly is smaller, but if you are retrofitting an older house, when there is only phase available behind the switch, Sonoff takes the cake 🙂 Feb 5, 19:29
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : HA is fine with just 2gb ram and even a low end celeron cpu, so the zima board should be good and we already installed it… your 2 minipc are way overkill for the task, if you want to go that route, i suggest installing proxmox as i did, and having HAOS as a virtual machine… this simplifies backups and lets you use your minipc for other vms, too Jan 23, 17:59
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : Well, there’s some thought needed there – If I’m doing that, could be worth using my 2nd mini PC there as it isn’t doing much…. OR as that is Ryzen 9 I could bring the new Ryzen 7 from the UK, set up the Ryzen 9 for UK operation and put HAOS on the Ryzen 7. That HAS to be many times faster than the RPI? Choices…. Jan 23, 17:48
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : when you’re back 1st thing to do, migrate your HA setup to HAOS… Jan 23, 17:31
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : When I get back I’ll have lots of time on my own so can do it justice then… Jan 23, 17:13
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : video is more than 1 year old, so just go check both the changelog.md and the device.md files on the github repo, and btw, video shows how to add by yourself whatever new device if not supported, by extracting the needed infos and creating the device yaml file, which then could be shared with the author himself Jan 22, 17:05
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : Erm, last time I looked – tuya local had no-where near the support. Has something changed? Jan 22, 16:15
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : just use tuya local (NOT local tuya… why? Watch the video…), and free them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apWfjargTpA Jan 22, 15:38
- Fibre vs Copper vs 4G/5G vs Starlink – a European View by : WELL, 64Mb/s is “ok” but can’t argue with the price – very nice. Where are you based? I’m paying £18 a month for broadband in the UK (no fibre option, edge of town) 30Mbps down, THREE Mbps up – and €15 a month in Spain for 4g (soon 5g hopefully) 60-110Mbps down, maybe 50Mbps up (varies). Jan 22, 13:10
Fibre vs Copper vs 4G/5G vs Starlink – a European View by : My fiber speed is 64Mbs down and 38Mbs upload. The price is approximately 11 Euro with all taxes. Jan 22, 10:01
A New Year’s AI Treat by : Interesting. Perplexity gets it right using the gpt4o model, though the image is very basic. Using the Claude Sonnet model, it correctly draws the time but the clock is upside down! Jan 15, 22:21
Candle with LED lights – no Battery by : It seems it has a CR2032 (and an IR sensor): https://www.marksandspencer.com/neroli-lime-and-basil-light-up-candle/p/hbp60499788?color=GOLDMIX Apparently it also has a monofilament: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/11pslz4/what_seemed_to_be_a_nicely_designed_candle_turned/jc07a5a/ But someone on Youtube replaced the candle part without the monofilament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOrM7Q1wfo0 Merry Christmas! Dec 26, 00:11
- EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : I certainly will. I use the Tuya integration into HA and you have to re-authenticate every now and then which is a pain. Dec 24, 18:58
EARU EAMPDW-TY-63 WiFi Smart Energy Protector Device by : I had similar issues with Tuya devices. Additionally, you depend on Tuya’s servers, which require the device to be connected to the internet. I’ve been looking for a similar device with ESP32 and Tasmota for a long time. Please let me know if you find one with 32-62A and leakage protection. Merry Christmas Dec 24, 08:03
- BigTimer by : Hi – well I’ve not made any changes to BigTimer in the last several months so possibly worthe checking moer closely. I’ve reduced Node-Red use to handling Google Home for Hoem Assistant so can’t really offer any new insights on Bigtimer which worked for me right to the end. Good luck. Dec 18, 00:39
BigTimer by : I have Bigtimer set to turn a light on and toggle a button to on/off at 8:00. The problem is that sometimes one or the other action does not execute. If I inject a 1 or sync or auto they both execute. Both are on the first output. Is there something set wrong? Work around is to have 2 identical Bigtimer instances. Dec 17, 18:36
- Sonoff Zigbee Smart Water Valve (SWV) by : And thank YOU. I’ve corrected the blog entry. Dec 6, 16:59
Sonoff Zigbee Smart Water Valve (SWV) by : Very interesting article Pete – and very timely for me. I’m now full time in the Canaries and my various ex-UK Hozelock garden watering valves are all playing up with leaks and corrosion so I’m in the market for some new valves. One small point: I think that ‘BSP’ on the box just means British Standard Pipe ie the pipe thread standard, not the name of the device which is ‘Zigbee Smart Water Valve’. Sonoff also make the same unit with NPT threads for the American market. On a separate note, I’ve just added new Bigtimers to NodeRed along with a half a dozen Sonoff Basics to control the Christmas lights, so Thanks again for the Bigtimer. I’m just starting to grapple with looking at a Zigbee interface for my network which is currently running 30+ Tasmotas on a Pi4 MQTT server courtesy of your script. Thanks again, Keith Morgan Dec 6, 15:22- Home Assistant Progress – Colours by : Simple answer: The move to HA after some heartache to be sure, has been one of the best things I’ve done in years, I’ve far better control and moer specifically monitoring of devices now than ever before – and when it comes to getting help with setting up tiles etc, chatGPT has proven to be quite capable. I was wondering about the future of using Node-Red Dashboard when Dashboard 1 came to the end of it’s life and was going to have to do some re-learning anyway – I wasn’t happy about some of the changes. Just at the right time my pal Antonio started pushing me down the Docker + Home Assistant route. I kept all of this on the RPI5 as I still love the (revised) rpi-clone – which I use almost daily when making changes and additions (I also have daily automated backups of the whole Docker setup to my NAS (HA, Mosquitto, two zigbee2MQTT setups, Node-Red etc). I’m now only using Node-Red for Google Home voice control compatibility – ie HA entities in Node-RED – because I don’t want to pay for HA cloud access. It is all working well. Nov 12, 03:01
Apollo PLT-1 Garden Moisture Sensor by : Great review! The Apollo PLT-1 garden moisture sensor looks promising, especially with its focus on automation for irrigation systems. I really appreciate the detailed breakdown of its features and usability. Nov 8, 06:35
Home Assistant Progress – Colours by : Genuine question – why are you moving all of your automation out of Node-RED and into Home Assistant? Why not leave it where it is and let HA manage the rest e.g. the integrations and dashboarding? I started my home automation journey with Vera, then onto Hubitat, and then SmartThings, each time taking the pain of rebuilding my automation from scratch. When I switched to Home Assistant I rejected the idea of building yet more platform-specific automation (guessing that I’d probably switch platforms again at some point) and instead implemented it all in Node-RED since this has wide compatibility with various home automation platforms. If I were to switch again then I’d just need to swap out a few device nodes in my Node-RED flows (I’m referencing HA devices in Node-RED) but the main framework of the automation would be retained. Oct 28, 15:46
- BigTimer by : I have a problem with timer 2. This is my very simple configuration: On Time 11:15, Off Time 11:15, On Time2 11:15, Off Time2 11:15, On Offset 4, Off Offset 5, On Offset2 6, Off Offset2 7. The timer switches on at 11:19 and off at 11:20 as expected. Then it should again switch on an 11:21 and switch off at 11:22, but nothing happens. The timer tells me: “off for 23 hours …” The version is 2.8.6. What is wrong? By the way, I think timer1 and timer2 are connected as an OR. What I need is an AND, e.g. to switch on at 06:00 AM, but not after sunrise. But I have used a function and it works well. Thanks! Oct 13, 11:55
- ESPresense and Home Assistant – The Adventure Continues by : I dealt with the issue with it turning off when I was standing at my PC by having my PC report activity back to home assistant. Check out https://github.com/hass-agent/HASS.Agent (You want this one this is the actively maintained fork) Sep 24, 21:21
- Shelly and Sonoff Shout-out by : This is OT, but why close comments on old blog posts? For example, you have more info on the sinilink usb controllers and similar sonoff devices than anywhere else, and people actively commenting on the posts! Sep 24, 21:04
- BigTimer by : Don’t know as this is the first time anyone has ever reported this isue. If you believe there is a fault in the logic, BigTimer is composed only of a single HTML file and a single JS file – which you have most likely under .node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-bigtimer. Sep 24, 13:49
BigTimer by : If I set “timeoff 43200” bigtimer shows 899 min left (12 hours). What needs to be improved? Sep 24, 13:43
- BigTimer by : Erm, 32200 minutes is 30 days surely? Maybe the explanation needs improving… Sep 24, 13:39
- Sonoff ZBMiniR2 Extreme – Why Another Power Controller? by : Yes, it is a little smaller and competes well for size with the smaller Shelly products – but honestly – all manufacturers need to put more innovation into the size of these things – I’ve tried fitting Sonoff and Shelly devices into Spanish switch boxes – ok if you remove the original switch – no problem but no way will either fit into the limited space on either side of the box with a standard spanish switch inside – and as for typical Smartplugs – I almost always end up using every alternative output on a standard extension – the exception being that in Spain, light duty plugs (lamps etc) invariably are 2-pin – so it isn’t always encessary to waste every other socket. Sep 21, 16:40
Sonoff ZBMiniR2 Extreme – Why Another Power Controller? by : Excited for this being available in the UK. I have some of the original ZBMINI and they work great, but only fit in a couple of my back boxes. This new model might squeeze into a few more. Sep 21, 15:12
- Argon40 Argon NEO5 + Poly+5 RPi5 Cases by : Ok, THANK YOU for that Tim – I’ll just leave this here… and come back to it when I find out why my Wordpress hosting DB just went down… I asked Argon40 yesterday – it will be interesting to see how long it takes them to come up with what you just did 🙂 Sep 18, 18:45
- The storm before the break – HA and Air Conditioning by : i used this wemos IR shield soldered directly to my wemos d1 mini, it has 4 ir blasters in cross, and 1 ir receiver… i put it just under my aircon and so it intercepts the remote too and reflects its settings in HA… of course, no way around: the remote cannot “get” the settings you set via HA… https://www.wemos.cc/en/latest/d1_mini_shield/ir.html Sep 8, 22:17
SMARTLIGHT.ME, Ethernet Zigbee Controllers and more… by : I really like their stuff, the updates come frequently and UIs are well thought out. A refreshing approach in the smart home market. Aug 29, 23:47
ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Solved it by using esptool to erase flash. Aug 24, 15:04
- TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : It’s a mix. You can physically move the scope up and down and there is digital zoom in as well. Aug 24, 11:51
TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : Dear Mr. Scargill. Thanks for this fine review. I’ve always wanted such a device. Can you report whether the magnification is optical or digital zoom? Thank you. Aug 24, 02:17
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : same here, just flashed mine (a v1.0 pcb, says label on mine), using “standard” firmware, 2 minutes job, nothing to press to flash Aug 23, 14:16
ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Yes, just plugged them in my PC and flashed them from the “https://espresense.com/firmware” page. Aug 22, 18:56
- TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : Completely agree. Some years ago, someone sent me a small microscope to review but no-where near the usefulness of this one. I like it. Aug 22, 08:20
More AliExpress cheapness – T34 Smart Plug+ by : They are nice. I use to switch off from remote my 3D printers if a printing fails. I monitor with the IP camera that is also connected to Smart Life, and if I see problems I switch off the printer. Thats because my printers still use Marlin firmware and don’t have Klipper and remote control. I don’t charge them with over 400w. Aug 21, 17:09
- An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday by : Fixed those and more, thanks… can’t complete the entry until I get more support from Shelly – in the past they’ve always been good. Aug 16, 17:46
An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday by : Just a few typos – coodinator, devie, etc. Nothing too bad, just stands out a bit. Aug 16, 15:40
- An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday by : I needed the link for cross-referencing – you’ll find I’ve done a lot more now on the Shelly devices – but still not finished as I decided to do a firmware update on the Shelly Blu Motion(for no good reason – I just like to have the latest firmware) – and 15 minutes later it’s STILL at it… I’m just about to contact Shelly to find out why it’s taking so long…. meanwhile if you spot any mistakes – feel free to drop me a note… Aug 16, 12:28
Reolink Argus 4 Battery + Solar 180 degree Camera by : Got that one. The hardware is fine. The software needs to go. The camera firmware lacks reliability. There’s so much movement this camera misses. I’ve tested it with a lot of movement and it’s a hit or miss. It misses a great portion of the day where clearly other cameras are able to detect and report namely kasa. Aug 15, 20:40
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : no need to readd or repair anything, this video shows everything needed to move devices between different coordinators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ3UZw-Zkn0 Aug 11, 17:20
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Will progress this tonight. Flight right now.. The usual.. No WiFi.. You’d never think there are now countless satellites up there.. Good gadgets though I’ve so many Zigbee lights and cheap AliExpress sockets which also double up as routers.. Aug 11, 12:39
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : Hi I’m not on ANY commission for these Ethernet devices, my friend gave me one. So I contacted the company to tell them I was impressed and they wrote back today – very helpful chap – by early next week I’ll put more information in that blog entry as I plan to replace my existing Spanish dongle with one of the samples and a router (ie repeater – ie a Zigbee smart plug) in the middle of our house with the other one – which I’m led to believe should have better range than a typical smart plug due to the large antenna. At that point I’ll know for sure if you have to re-add existing Zigbee units to Zigbee2MQTT or not. Meanwhile, it seems that right now their prices compare with AliExpress – worth a look – https://smartlight.me/smart-home-devices Pete Aug 9, 14:54
Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : I’ve heard of these adapters, and I’m really thankful for your review. I think I’ll add one to my kit! Thanks! Aug 9, 14:00
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : A) Yes, USB3 and Zigbee do seem to interfere – I learned that the hard way. Ended up ensuring the SSD had a proper shielded cable and shielded plug – and still put the Zigbee dongle on a long (shielded) lead. Hopefully a thing of the past if I get another Ethernet unit… B) I now have a spare 4G router which I can then plug into a normal GL-iNet router with OpenWrt and hence TailScale – sadly my 4G OpenWrt-based GL-iNet Spitz 2 router simply doesn’t have enough storage to add TailScale (their newer routers do) – I’ve asked GL-iNET if there’s a way to remove un-necessary rubbish to make way for Tailscale – no answer yet. As it happens, for now in the outbuilding that has the tiny 4G router – I only have one socket device and it’s a Tuya phone-home job so I can control it with the APP for now. Aug 8, 20:42
Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : OK, got it! I use an old Plusnet router with OpenWRT flashed on it as a Wifi access point in my garage. I installed a Tailscale client on that so I can access my local LAN remotely. I’ve got a PI 4 with HA on it plugged into the same router and use a Sonoff Zigbee USB stick for my zigbee comms. When I upgraded the pi SD card install to a SSD the zigbee comms dropped off completely. So I put the SSD on the end of a USB extension cable and zigbee comms restored. So it would seem that the SSD frequencies interfere with zigbee. P.S. The CAPTCHA on posts is a right pain! I enter the “correct” value and it’s rejected. There’s no “refresh” so I have to cut my post, refresh the entire page to get a new CAPCHA, paste in the post and try again… Aug 8, 18:56
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : The plain 06 model does not, I believe, do POE. All models are pretty similar apart from POE and chipset. Aug 8, 18:47
- Tiny Remote for the New Hohem iSteady M6 AI Gimbal by : I’m not at home so I don’t have access to the Hohem right now – but just ask them directly. Aug 8, 18:43
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : Yes, the SLZB-06 is in the UK and my RPI5 is in Spain. SLZB is not on my 4G router as that does not have Tailscale. It is plugged into my normal router which gets it’s external connection from the 4G router. My normal routre is a GL-iNet Flint – which has Tailscale as a standard install. The SLZB-06 has a USB-C connection for power and upgrades. It WAS plugged into the outside routre USB connection but I’ve just replaced that with a TP-Link MR600 4G router which has no USB connector so the SLZB-06 is now getting power from a bog-standard 1A USB wall adaptor. Tailscale links the two networks together so each can access the other. As there is only me messing with networks in our homes this doesn’t pose any extra risks. Aug 8, 18:42
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : even if you don’t have poe on router itself, you can use some poe injectors to feed in power to the socket which brings on the other side to where you put the device, so that EXIT port has both data and power… they exist even in the other way around, called poe splitters plug in source network cable and power on the injector, and the cable on the other side will be POE Aug 8, 18:26
Tiny Remote for the New Hohem iSteady M6 AI Gimbal by : I can’t seem to get mine to pair. Is there a particular button to press on the remote for a particular amount of time? I get the gimble in pairing mode but I always see pairing failed. TIA ~peaty Aug 8, 18:26
- BigTimer by : Bigtimer gets it’s time from whatevre it is running on. In my case a Raspberry Pi. Aug 2, 13:25
BigTimer by : Hi Pete, Can you tell me why the time on the Big Timer is an hour out from my PC? Is there a setting somewhere that I need to change? I am running this on a small server which is set to the correct time? Aug 2, 12:04
Inexpensive Occasional Smartsocket + Low-Bandwidth 4G by : Another good option for low-level data usage is RWG Mobile. I’ve been using them for a couple of years for a SIM in a GPS tracker and it works perfectly. Mine costs £1 a month for 750 MB of data (plus 100 minutes of calls and 100 texts if needed) but they seem to be charging £2 a month now. Still good value for the amount of data. Aug 1, 21:51
- Surface Pro 4 – Windows 11 or NOT? by : Hmm. Mine runs reasonably cool. All my mcs Win 11. Good luck. Jul 24, 10:12
Surface Pro 4 – Windows 11 or NOT? by : Hi I did the same, installation went fine, all good but the Surface is now overheating when watching movies. Fan is loud and spins fast, the surface getting hot, this also drains battery 3x faster. Never had this with Windows 10. Also used a debloater to remove all the telemetry stuff. Thinking of going back to 10. Jul 24, 09:47
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : oh, like it! i’ve a similar dongle acting as zigbee repeater, ordering this too! thanks here 1€ cheaper: https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005007003046727.html Jul 19, 11:52
ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Have you seen this device? ESP32 Development Board WIFI BT Module for USB Dongle Hardware Key 4MB Flash CH343P MINI USB Flash Disk Tools https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ex56sl1 Works as BT Proxy with ESPHome for me and fits easy in an USB-Port. Jul 16, 18:03
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : same applies to esphome, all the secrets (wifi and mqtt passwords, for example) need to to in the secrets.yaml file, so if you change them, your devices are just a recompile away, with 0 mods needed to their yaml Jul 16, 08:47
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : Antonio makes a good point about passwords and I’ve since moved my “aws_secret_access_key” onto the secrtets file. For reference for anyone wondering what that is, the secrets file is a text file called secrets.yaml in which you can store passwords and refer to them elsewhere. For an example – I may have a password for use with camera integrations. If I need that camera password, then a one-line entry in the secrets file may be like: my_camera_password: specialpassword123 and I would access that in configuration.yaml with an entry: password: !secret my_camera_password A lot simpler than it looks maybe… secrets.yaml may contain many such passwords. Typically all such files may be stored in the Home Assistant /config folder and can be edited with any simple file editor. Jul 16, 08:41
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : you should never put secrets in plain configuration.yaml, but use secrets.yaml instead: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/secrets/ Jul 15, 17:30
- Sonoff Zigbee Smart Water Valve (SWV) by : Just updated minutes ago – looking promising. Jul 10, 14:05
And Now – HA TV Lighting Automation by : I did one that talks to my TV and can tell when stuff is playing, and dims/undims the lights when you play or pause. It’s one of my favorites, it’s really nice once you get used to it. Jul 4, 02:15
Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : Isn’t the USB cable used to detect moisture too? Meaning it sucks up the water and triggers based on that. So you don’t have to place the main unit on the correct side of the washing machine (and hope the water won’t run in the other direction), but you can place the *cable* around the washing machine and it triggers when water touches the cable! Eve introduced that several years ago for their homekit only sensors. Great to see sonoff is following! (At least if I interpret their website correctly) Jul 2, 20:53
256 Colour Editing in Linux by : Great article on enhancing the SSH session experience! Switching to 256-color mode in Mobaxterm significantly improves the editing environment, especially with tools like MC and MCEDIT. For anyone frequently working with headless SBCs, this is a must-try tip. Speaking of editing, if you’re looking for a powerful and [url=https://thecapapkscut.com/how-to-get-templates-on-capcut/]user-friendly video editor[/url], CapCut is an excellent tool to check out. Thanks for sharing these useful insights! Jun 28, 17:25
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : i’ve them for 3 months now, never triggered (luckily!) if not for test twice, and battery cr2032 is still at 100% Jun 28, 14:15
- mm Wave vs IR vs ESPresense – Big Decision? by : take a look at Reed’s videos, Aqara FP2 can do much more, like splitting a room in zones using a single sensor, given this is put in a sensible spot to see all the area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarollsdao4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzxGfdHhR0 Jun 28, 12:34
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : i’ve 3 of these: https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005005942046538.html Jun 24, 11:23
Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : Mmmmm. Needs a hub which I assume would not work with other company’s sensors?? Jun 23, 22:02
Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/E2202.html#ikea-e2202 https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/badring-water-leakage-sensor-smart-60504352/ Jun 23, 17:05
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : Good… I’m a Zigbee2MQTT man myself but I’m sure that would work too. Got the Ikea product link handy? Jun 23, 13:13
Beryl-AX (GL-MT3000) WiFi 6 Router and MORE by : and picture; including DIN rail mount. It was quite difficult to open the housing but once open it is an easy job. Jun 17, 10:58
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : between normal vpn, tailscale, zerotier and cloudflare tunnels, remote access is not a problem… Jun 13, 11:39
Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : I know you’re focused on Home Assistant, but thought I’d mention that openHAB provides free cloud access to users. You might want to check it out as an option for getting a handful of devices into Alexa and Google. Jun 13, 02:25
