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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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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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 […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtIWN5SJDYo In this tutorial, you’ll see how to display text on a 32×8 RGB LED Matrix (built with WS2812B) within few minutes. This will let you control an RGB LED matrix with an Arduino. If you build something with a similar setup, please comment and share your projects ! Please […]
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Hey everyone, today is the release day of the Amazon Echo Show 5 and … well, I definitely had to buy one ( or two ) of them. The Amazon Echo family has already a lot of devices, including the Echo, Echo Dot, Tap, Echo Show and even some third […]
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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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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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