Looking for the perfect tech gifts this holiday season? Check out our top picks that bring innovation and convenience to the forefront. From smart curtains to zone-based automation and permanent outdoor lights, these ideas are sure to make the season bright. Discover the joy of simple, smart living with these thoughtful and exciting tech presents!
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Here’s a quick overview of the new features in Home Assistant 2023.05🥳 This release includes a lot of things related to the Year of the voice, but also nice addition to Matter, webhooks and more. If you liked that quick recap, please Like 👍and Subscribe ✅ that would mean the […]
Continue ReadingFor the last month of the Year, Home Assistant is delivering yet another version packed with new features. From Matter to Local Calendar, without forgetting State colors, a lot of improvement was just released. Release Notes As always, every new features and changes can be found in the Home Assistant’s […]
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Today, AliExpress is running their single’s day (November 11th) and that gives us, smart home enthousiasts, a lot of great deals to add new devices and projects to our houses. So I digged into AliExpress to find some geat opportuinities that I listed bellow. Enjoy ! BONUS ! Every devices […]
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In this project, we’ll see how to control our garage door with Home Assistant and ESPHome for less than 20$ !
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Prime Day is finally here ! Most of us are waiting the biggest Amazon event since July.Everyone knows that we can find great deals in tech stuff, but it’s also a good time to get parts, tools and everything we need for our upcoming projects. So, here are the best […]
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There is multiple ways to configure your ESPHome nodes and to update them. From the command line, Tasmotizer and the other options, the most user-friendly is certainly the ESPHome Add-On (At least if you’re using Home Assistant). So here is how to get started with ESPHome Add-On. Installation Since few […]
Continue ReadingIn this project, we’ll see how to control WS2812B LED strip with a Sonoff Basic using ESPHome. Once configured, it can be controlled and automated with Home Assistant. If you like this project, please don’t forget to Like and Subscribe ! Here are the other episode of the series : […]
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After the Sonoff Basic and the Sonoff 4CH Pro, we’re now flashing the MagicHome RGB LED Controller to install the ESPHome firmware on it. With this device, we can control the color, the intensity and the effects applied to the LED strip. So here are the details to have it […]
Continue Readinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lldSKzded0 In this tutorial, we’ll see how to flash a Sonoff 4ch Pro R2 to install the ESPHome firmware. This IOT device has a lot of hardware : 4 switches, 4 Relays, 1 LED and 3 GPIO available for sensors ! And, as always, adding it to Home Assistant is […]
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