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Amazon Prime Day Canada : Deals for Makers and Geeks !

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

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Get started with ESPHome Add-On on Home Assistant

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

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

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

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How to install ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

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

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Amazon Prime Day Canada : Deals for Makers and Geeks !

By Alex ReidOctober 14, 2020October 14, 2020
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Get started with ESPHome Add-On on Home Assistant

By Alex ReidAugust 16, 2020August 16, 2020
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How to control WS2812B LED strip with a Sonoff Basic and ESPHome

By Alex ReidJuly 17, 2020January 30, 2021
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How to install ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

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Get started with ESPHome Add-On on Home Assistant

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

By Alex ReidJuly 17, 2020January 30, 2021
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How to install ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

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How to install ESPHome on Sonoff 4CH Pro R2

By Alex ReidMarch 26, 2020January 30, 2021
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How to install ESPHome on a Sonoff Basic

By Alex ReidFebruary 27, 2020August 13, 2020

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Amazon Prime Day Canada : Deals for Makers and Geeks !

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Get started with ESPHome Add-On on Home Assistant

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

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How to install ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

By Alex ReidMarch 26, 2020January 30, 2021

How to install ESPHome on Sonoff 4CH Pro R2

By Alex ReidFebruary 27, 2020August 13, 2020

How to install ESPHome on a Sonoff Basic

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Unboxing

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Starter Kit Unboxing

Alex ReidMay 28, 2019August 13, 2020
Hardware / Unboxing

Hey everyone, I just got my brand new Raspberry Pi 3 B+ starter Kit that I got from Canakit. Since I have a lot of things going on my Home Assistant installation, I needed a small upgrade, which will be done with that small computer. Take a look at the […]

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Control RGB LED Strips with an Arduino

Control RGB LED Strips with Arduino – The Code

Alex ReidApril 22, 2019August 17, 2020
Developments / Hacks / Smart Home

As discussed in Controlling LED Strips – The easy way (Part 1), I need to control at least 7 different RGB LED Strips with an Arduino. Options with PWM or pre-built WiFi modules were a bit to long / costly. So why don’t we use the IR modules that comes with […]

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Control Sinope Thermostats with Python

Alex ReidApril 18, 2019May 19, 2020
Developments / Smart Home

4 years ago when we moved in our new house, the electricity bill was pretty high. So one of the first things we changed to reduce this was the thermostats. One of my requirements was to be able to control Sinope thermostats with Python (then Alexa, Google Assistant, Home Assistant). […]

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Control RGB LED Strips with an Arduino

Control RGB LED Strips with Arduino – The Hardware

Alex ReidApril 15, 2019August 17, 2020
Developments / Hacks

Over the years I bought a lot of LED strips to add almost everywhere … But since I didn’t want to have 44-keys remotes at each corners of my house and that I also want to have them available on power outage, I came up with a different plan to […]

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Home Assistant Complete Setup

Alex ReidApril 13, 2019May 19, 2020
Developments / Smart Home

Before starting to present the new features I add the my setup, let me show the Home Assistant Complete Setup I have. In the last years, I tried different things from a complete custom infrastructure built over a Django application I wrote, to HomeGenie then Home Assistant. HomeGenie has an […]

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