Introduction When it comes to sourcing of cheap devices, AliExpress is a premium option. When it is Black Friday, well. You must have a look. Here is a selection of key products to build your home automation and strengthen your network mesh. Don’t tell anyone… Here are extra discounts All products on AliExpress : valid […]
Introduction This project is based on Home Assistant, my instance uses both Wi-Fi, Zigbee and Z-wave devices. In this article, I explain how I used Node-RED to control a z-wave outlet from a zigbee button. The article is mostly a good starting point to demystify the “magic” operated by Home Assistant to make hardware talk […]
Introduction This post is about bridging Zigbee devices to my Home Assistant server. From Wikipedia : “Zigbee is a low-cost, low-power, wireless mesh network standard targeted at battery-powered devices in wireless control and monitoring applications. Zigbee delivers low-latency communication. Zigbee chips are typically integrated with radios and with microcontrollers.” Make sure to not confuse with Z-Wave, they are […]
Introduction This project is about controlling power plugs connected to standing lights in my living room. I’ve a set of 3 plugs with one remote controller. The remote controller uses radio-frequencies (RF) to sent commands to the plugs. The RF are of the common 433 Mhz. My current home automation is hosted in-house and built […]
Introduction After writing a quick article on car cleaning, I focus on the cleaning of aluminium rims. Let’s take a closer look at this activity of car detailing. If there’s one step I was apprehensive about, it’s this one: You rarely have all four wheels taken apart at the same time, unless you’re swapping between […]
Introduction Given the current events, most of us probably have some free time. This is the perfect opportunity to plan your next PC configuration 🙂 This article does not aim to be the cheapest or even the most powerful but rather to be the most balanced. The products listed here are the ones I would […]
Introduction Control garage motor from a smartphone or any device able to browse a webpage (with AJAX!). The project was started as I only had one remote for my garage. How fun was it to buy a second one? Not enough. My target was to be able to control and monitor my garage door from […]
Introduction This is a followup instructable, I’ve written this one a bit after “Building Homie Devices for IoT or Home Automation“. The later was focusing on basic monitoring (DHT22 FR/DE, DS18B20 FR/DE, light) around D1 Mini boards. This time, I’d like to show how to add a serial header for FTDI adapter (FR/DE) on a Sonoff WiFi […]
Intro This instructable is part of my DIY Home Automation series, check out main article “Planning a DIY Home Automation System“. If you don’t know yet what Homie is, have a look at homie-esp8266 + homie from Marvin Roger.There are many many sensors. I’m covering the very basic ones in order to give reader the requirements to get started building […]
Introduction The Neo Geo AES from SNK was a glorious home arcade machine released in 1990. However it was and still is quite expensive. Games are massive cartridges of multiple megabits. Back in early 90’s you can easily imagine how advanced this was. For retro gamers, this is an expensive leisure. As I’m a proud owner of an AES system with […]