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The first rule of smart home is products should be invisible, meaning that your family doesn’t notice an unusual appearance or behavior of a device. Shelly Vintage smashes that rule – it’s made to be seen!
Continue reading “Shelly Vintage G40 – A Gorgeous Smart Bulb”
Our buddy Jason Churchward is back with a new post, showing us how to automate a valve using ST_Anything Hubduino!
Continue reading “Electronic Water or Gas Valve using ST_Anything HubDuino”
As people add more and more WiFi-based devices to their home network, especially with smart home products like bulbs and switches that can quickly multiply the number of devices, questions often arise about limitations of WiFi routers with large numbers of devices. This guide will help answer some of those questions and give guidance on how to insure that your network serves both you and those devices well.
Our friend Kerry from The Smarter Home Club pokes a pin in the balloon of our most basic technological concept while sharing his troubleshooting process with RFLink and its problems relating to a grouchy anemometer….
William from ZemiSmart asked me to review a couple of his company’s products for The Smarter Home Club. Today, I want to tell you about the ZemiSmart Wi-Fi Door/Window Sensor. This sensor works with the Smart Life app, meaning it uses one of the popular Tula modules based on the ESP8266, which is very well loved in the smart home community. I have a LOT of pictures included in this entry, to help guide you through the initial setup, as well as to help illustrate one way to get a little extra functionality from it.
Kerry Clendinning of the Smarter Home Club explains how IR works and offers advice on how to get better performance!
Paul Taylor from the Smarter Home Club returns for part three of his series on the Raspbee/Conbee. In this part, he covers connecting a device to the Zigbee network!
In the last entry, I introduced MQTT, as it is an important messaging protocol for use in home automation and IoT. It will be one of the primary tools in our project illustrating how to connect some unusual technologies into a more standard home automation system. One other component we need to introduce is Webhooks.
Continue reading “About Webhooks….”
Our buddy Paul Taylor is back with Part 2 of his series teaching us about Raspbee/Conbee for home automation!
Continue reading “Phoscon ZigBee Gateway AKA – ConBee or RaspBee – Part 2: Installation”
Kerry Clendinning from The Smarter Home Club has written up a new article for us covering Hunter SimpleConnect fan controllers and Home Assistant!