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Smart Holiday Gift Ideas for Tech Lovers

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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Smart HomeTech News

Home Assistant 2023.05 : Voice Assistants, OpenAI, Matter and More !

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

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Smart HomeTech News

5 New Features on Home Assistant 2022.12 !

https://youtu.be/S9_aphwvuiM For 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

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DealsSmart Home

Top 10 deals for your Smart Home on 11.11 Sale !

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.

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Smart Holiday Gift Ideas for Tech Lovers

Home Assistant 2023.05 : Voice Assistants, OpenAI, Matter and More ...

5 New Features on Home Assistant 2022.12 !

Top 10 deals for your Smart Home on 11.11 Sale ...

Smart Holiday Gift Ideas for Tech Lovers

Alex ReidDecember 17, 2023December 18, 2023
Deals / Smart Home

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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Home Assistant 2023.05 : Voice Assistants, OpenAI, Matter and More !

Alex ReidMay 4, 2023December 17, 2023
Smart Home / Tech News

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 […]

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5 New Features on Home Assistant 2022.12 !

Alex ReidDecember 7, 2022December 17, 2023
Smart Home / Tech News

For 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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Top 10 deals for your Smart Home on 11.11 Sale !

Alex ReidNovember 10, 2022December 17, 2023
Deals / Smart Home

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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Make your Garage Door smarter with Home Assistant

Alex ReidAugust 6, 2022December 17, 2023
Projects / Smart Home / Tutorials

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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Amazon Prime Day 2020 Canada

Amazon Prime Day Canada : Deals for Makers and Geeks !

Alex ReidOctober 14, 2020December 17, 2023
Deals / Tech News

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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Get Started with ESPHome Add-On

Get started with ESPHome Add-On on Home Assistant

Alex ReidAugust 16, 2020December 17, 2023
Smart Home / Tutorials

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 […]

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How to control WS2812B LED strip with a Sonoff Basic and ESPHome

Alex ReidJuly 17, 2020December 17, 2023
Projects / Smart Home / Tutorials

In 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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ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

How to install ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

Alex ReidApril 1, 2020December 17, 2023
Hacks / Hardware / Smart Home / Tutorials

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 […]

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How to install ESPHome on Sonoff 4CH Pro R2

Alex ReidMarch 26, 2020December 17, 2023
Hacks / Hardware / Smart Home / Tutorials

https://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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Smart Holiday Gift Ideas for Tech Lovers

Home Assistant 2023.05 : Voice Assistants, OpenAI, Matter and More !

5 New Features on Home Assistant 2022.12 !

Top 10 deals for your Smart Home on 11.11 Sale !

Make your Garage Door smarter with Home Assistant

Amazon Prime Day 2020 Canada

Amazon Prime Day Canada : Deals for Makers and Geeks !

Get Started with ESPHome Add-On

Get started with ESPHome Add-On on Home Assistant

WS2812B LED strip with Sonoff Basic and ESPHome

How to control WS2812B LED strip with a Sonoff Basic and ESPHome