Controlling our loft radiator with a Zigbee controlled thermostatic radiator valve and Home Assistant
Adding new MQTT sensors to Home Assistant to log Gas meter usage data
Adding Shelly EM power monitoring in the loft with Home Assistant
Adding remote Wi-Fi data access to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar PV inverter using an Espressif ESP32-WROOM-32UE module
Audio notifications for when the washing machine needs to be emptied via Home Assistant and Sonos speakers
Modifying a Sonoff POWR2 Smart Switch with energy monitoring to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a devices energy usage
Creating a wireless remote control to swtch between video capture scenes in OBS Studio to select between our Microscope and other cameras or desktop capture using a Wi-Fi Remote Control
We have added several new Zigbee sensors to our smart home system which runs Home Assistant and the sensors talk to the home Linux server using Zigbee2mqtt
Yet more scammers using emails claiming to be from a certified photographer who say your website has copyrighted images hosted
Teardown time with some old tablets which no longer work or charge, some Apple iPad Air 2 and Android Nexus tablets
Trying to avoid zapping electronics by adding new ESD Anti-Static matting on the bench and floor in our workshop.
Adding a live video feed to our Brunel BMSZ trinocular stereomicroscope using a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera module and USB interface
Adding RGB to all the things in the loft workshop using an ESP8266 Wifi module to make a custom RGB LED Controller
PC built time for the loft workshop with a new AMD Ryzen 9 3900X PC build in Fractal Design Meshify S2 case
Teardown time with an Amazon Echo Dot 4th generation smart speaker, find out how Alexa is listening to you