TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by Peter Scargill: Suggest you contact Tomlov… This is the contact info in their email to me… Branding Email: Branding@tomlov.com Support Email: Support@tomlov.com Facebook: @Tomlov | Facebook group: TOMLOV Microscope Users Group Instagram: @tomlov_official Tiktok: @tomlovmicroscope Websites: tomlov.com | tomlovmicroscope.com WhatsApp: +86 181 2371 6479 May 14, 17:32TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : I am trying to charge the Tomlov model DM9 Max using the cable and an adapter but I see no indication it is charging? May 14, 15:35
- New Sonoff Goodies – Plug and Thermometers by : You’re right. Well, as they’ve yet yet fully upddated the Zigbee2MQTT version, probably as well to wait. May 13, 14:31
New Sonoff Goodies – Plug and Thermometers by : That’s the wifi version. I will wait.. it’s not urgent May 13, 14:14
- New Sonoff Goodies – Plug and Thermometers by : S60ZBTPF – it SEEMS that AliExpress have them at 12.79 Euros – at least from here in Spain – all inclusive inc post.. just tried that link and it works. https://shorturl.at/ugHLN May 13, 13:49
- Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : The blog is now updated – thanks for the feedback – way back in 2023 I commented in my video that the product had an “end of days” feel. The website is now completely defunct – something I’ve clarified in the blog and associated videos. May 8, 07:35
Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : You can buy this PowerVision S1 for cheaper everywhere. I didn’t know why till I tried to get the App for Android phones. Forget about it… you’ll just be on wild goose chases forever. I’ve bought two from different sellers. Both telling app was available for it. But where? Not in Play Store and the 3rd Party App Stores give you junk wear that’s not for the PowerVision S1! Most likely the company is out of business. DON’T BUY IT… as you’ll regret it. Buy a Hohem instead…. at least they have Apps available on Google Play Store! May 8, 03:18
An Orange Pi Week by : Awesome write up. Waiting for my RV2 to arrive this afternoon. Going to use the Ubuntu server image on a 256 NVME. I’ve also been playing around with the RV, but no official Ubuntu release for that board yet that i know of. According to the RV2 manual, only the NVME on the backside is bootable. I did order these standoffs, and this fan and heatsink kit to try to get temps down under 50c. With a heatsink only my RV is running at around 54c with room temps at a normal 73f. Just found your blog and hope to read more!!! Have a great day! May 6, 22:53
- An Orange Pi Week by : Well, I grabbed the OpenWrt image, put it on SD – nothing – just booted Ubuntu off the eMMC – I was sure it would prefer SD if available… I’ve asked… Apr 29, 16:49
- An Orange Pi Week by : Hadn’t thought of it but if I can put it on SD and not interfere with my eMMC setup – sure, why not. That’s if the power holds out – you may be aware that spain’s been in a blackout for the past day or so. Apr 29, 13:00
An Orange Pi Week by : Hi, could you test Openwrt image for rv2? It’s located RV2 downloads page. Apr 28, 18:29
- Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition vs Google by : Not gotten that far. Once I realised it wasn’t as good as Google at listening – I put it on the back burner. Yes having local voice control is the future – but being impatient wife-proof is more important. I only use voice as a convenience. Virtually all my home automation has alternatives… Rotating light would be nice, though 🙂 Apr 27, 00:39
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition vs Google by : Have you figured out how to control the voice preview LED ring? I can get node-red to change the color, but I can’t simulate any kind of LED effects yet (flashing, pulsing, rotating, etc). Apr 25, 16:28
- Seeed Studio 60Ghz mmWave Sensor by : The link I provided for updating under paragraph entitled DAY 3 is how I updated mine. Section in that Seeed page – Module firmware upgrade: MR60BHA2 Firmware upgrade tool: MR60BHA2_OTA.zip MR60BHA2 Firmware v1.6.5: MR60BHA2_eeprom_1.6.5.bin Looking at the board in Home Assistant… I can see that it continues to run perfectly.. Apr 22, 11:44
Automatic DHCP and Home Automation by : Thanks, Pete. As you say, obvious once you realise it, but so irritating when you’ve forgotten from long ago!! Apr 22, 08:48
Seeed Studio 60Ghz mmWave Sensor by : Hi, I have the same problem with this sensor, it works fine, then I leave and when coming back freeze, I reset it and the same, works fine and freeze later. How did your overcome this? My sensor is not recognized by my PC and I do not know hot to upgrade the firmware. Thanks Apr 21, 21:05
Automatic DHCP and Home Automation by : Another good practice is, if your router supports it, to provide DNS entries for your devices so you can access them by names. That way if you do have to change the IP address at some point, you don’t have to go dig through every configuration that references the device. You just update the DNS entry at the router. Apr 21, 17:03
- Sonoff Zigbee Smart Water Valve (SWV) by : Well, I can’t really help on either front except to say that I’ve had mine up and running permanently on he garden tap since mid-2024 with a hose on the other end – and the battery is still pretty full according to the sensor – it’s been sitting there all over the winter 24/7 and if my wife wants to water plants or hose the path etc, she has the manual override button on the side to use – the real tap is permanently on… not a single failure. If and when the batteries fail, I’ll update this blog – of course, I get low battery warnings from Home Assistant so I SHOULD know about it long before the batteries become useless. Apr 14, 15:41
Sonoff Zigbee Smart Water Valve (SWV) by : I’m very curious to know if the time limit is implemented in the device, or only via the app. I would suspect the device, but can you confirm? If for some reason connection to the hub and/or controlling application is lost, will the device close after the set amount of time? As a fail-safe of sorts. I have the same question on battery power. If the power fails, will the valve auto-close or stay open indefinitely? Apr 14, 14:46
Zigbee2MQTT Lights – A Quick One by : The other side of AliExpress. A delivery arrived today, but an item had been damaged. I went to online help, and a refund was quickly arranged, and I have just had an email with a postage paid label to return the item to a uk address. Cannot fault that Apr 11, 20:32
Reolink RLC-823S2 IP Camera – it’s a MONSTER by : Curious if I can mount this upside down to get a full sky view? Would camera servos would suffer from inversion or if there would be a breach of moisture into the unit at that angle? Apr 8, 03:41
- Zigbee2MQTT Lights – A Quick One by : Sorry you’re having issues – I’ve not had issues with Ali either in the UK (Northeast) or in Spain (east)… Evri on the other hand – not perfect… and SEUR delivery company – the worst I’ve come across in rural Spain – their drivers don’t know the area at all. Apr 7, 14:04
Zigbee2MQTT Lights – A Quick One by : I don’t know. They wanted a video of another item that was power dead (a video shows it is more dead than a photo). The item that clearly says seller pays return postage, which they they say I must, the seller doesn’t even answer and they close the complaint due to my lack of activity … This week they sent one order (of many) so no way to isolate with certainty which… stuck in Customs (a big issue with them messing up paperwork according to Reddit Finland) and their two codes do not work. Customer service claim the parcel is at the post office (well technically it is, but at Customs post office) and seem to think I just walk along to fetch it. Reading even the screenshot from the Post Office is too much of a challenge for them… then they say they will file a claim for me anyway and even within the time on chat I get an email saying claim denied/go to the post office to fetch my item blah blah. For a small saving, the hassle factor is far too much… Oh well… Apr 3, 18:27
- HamGeek Zigbee Gateway V1.5 by : Thats helpful Rob. I only have one so I’ll take your word for it. Apr 3, 08:31
- Zigbee2MQTT Lights – A Quick One by : Well, in Spain – where I am, I have no problem with Ali – though why they want a photo of a returning smartbulb (which powers up to ON) is beyond me. Anyway I got my refund and they’re paying the postage to send it back via tracked Correos (our national mail system here)… so I can’t complain – hardly seems worth it for 2 bulbs. I guess I buy from Ali at least once a month so maybe that’s why I seem to get good service. If only I could say the same for the local courier (Seur) who are utterly useless. The driver couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag (or can’t be bothered to drive up the hill). Assuming you’re in Finland? Until 3 years ago, Spain was part time and I lived in the UK – used Ali for several years – OK there too. At least in Spain (I think also UK) VAT is included on all orders. I only buy small stuff from them so maybe that’s why I have no customs issues. Apr 3, 08:30
HamGeek Zigbee Gateway V1.5 by : Hi, I have a HamGeek HMG-01 coordinator and got another to use as a router. However, I found that all HamGeek HMG-01s are manufactured with the one IEEE address which means that you can only ever have one on a network. The address is not configurable (although it appears configurable in the UI). So saying the HMG-01 can be used as a coordinator is fine, as there can only be one on a network. However it cannot practically be used as a router unless you take care that there is only one. Mar 28, 07:36
- M5Stack Goodness by : 13.99 euros for the first link here in Spain – no idea why UK is cheaper – normally not the case. Oh, no USB adaptor – I thought that was standard – I stand corrected. Mar 22, 22:52
- M5Stack Goodness by : 13.99 euros here in Spain for the special – Looks like UK has the better deal for once. That also included taxes and post etc. But no USB adaptor. Mar 22, 22:49
M5Stack Goodness by : Aliexpress are offering 1 piece per buyer at £7.57 inc tax:- https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007189383346.html Otherwise they are offering them at £14.99:- https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007517983654.html Mar 22, 17:42
Home Assistant – Synology DS720+ The Story So Far by : Just my thoughts, but it mostly depends on your skill level and how much tolerance you have for learning. Reasonably confident with your Linux skills and want the maximum level of flexibility and value? Build something yourself with Proxmox and/or TrueNAS. Not so confident? Look at Synology/QNAP/many of the other vendors. Both are good options, but you pay a steep premium for ease of use on the Synology-type options. Building the hardware yourself is drastically cheaper, but software like TrueNAS and Proxmox are also targeting people who know what they’re doing, so it can be daunting at first. BOTH options give you a very solid platform to build on with Home Assistant and many other tools out there like self hosted media servers, storage and backups, etc. Mar 17, 17:33
Home Assistant – Synology DS720+ The Story So Far by : Peter, I am heading down the ‘switch to HAS’ process. Thank you for posting positive thoughts on this process. Should I just tear it all down and start fresh, or build a new HAS and slowly migrate? Nobody is dependent on any operation but myself. I have followed your work for years. This past week my home network (honestly a technology hoarding example) crashed after years of node-red/alexa/HAS operations. This was all originally crafted to help my wheelchair bound wife (RIP). Your big timer keeps working but the Alexa voice controls are done…. Proxmox, portainer, PIs, NUCs, recycled terminal servers, VPNs, PiHoles, Cameras, Tasmota, etc etc.. Thanks for any thoughts!! Mar 15, 16:20
- Home Assistant – Synology DS720+ The Story So Far by : My friend Antonio is using Proxmox. My Synology NAS seems to be working fine now I’ve removed the Simba shares (backing up to folders on the NAS). I am now auto-and-manually backing up to my GL-iNET Flint router – USB storage and that’s working with Samba 1.0 but with 2 different device having problems with lata samba protocols my initial thought is that this MUST be an issue with HAOS (fully up to date HAOS). However, it works. Glad you seem to be a step ahead of me. Other than this, my NAS has worked flawlessly for years. Just yesterday I fitted the 26 Euros Amazon Samsung RAM so I now have 5Gig for HAOS and 3Gig or 5Gig left depending – can’t tell – Synology say you can only use 6Gig total, Intel say you can use 8Gig, reported memory on the NAS says 10Gig (2Gig original and my new 8Gig module). Mar 11, 13:08
Argon40 Argon NEO5 + Poly+5 RPi5 Cases by : 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, 12:12
The 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 Presence 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 Presence 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 Presence 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 Presence 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
