Smart Home projects and automations
Using Zigbee door and window sensors to trigger alerts in Home Assistant to our tablets, phones and Sonos smart speakers.
Modifying a Kasa Smart Plug by TP-Link Power to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a devices energy usage
Everyone needs some fibre in their diet and we have added more to the home network using 10Gb Fibre to connect our computers and Synology network storage devices via a MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN network switch
Teardown of an Amazon Echo Flex smart plug which listens for your commands via the Alexa service and replies using a very tiny speaker
Teardown of the Amazon Echo Input and trying to extract the firmware
Digging deeper into the AmazonEcho Dot 3rd Generation smart speaker
Teardown of the Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation Smart speaker
Adding a 1-Wire Interface to our Solar Hot Water Controller to allow it to talk to our home server and data logger
Using Mosquitto MQTT and Home Assistant Data to log sensor data for our home using different types of wired and wireless sensors