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5 New Features on Home Assistant 2022.12 !

Alex ReidDecember 7, 2022December 7, 2022
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, 2022November 10, 2022
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, 2022November 29, 2022
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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Get Started with ESPHome Add-On

Get started with ESPHome Add-On on Home Assistant

Alex ReidAugust 16, 2020April 22, 2021
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, 2020April 22, 2021
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, 2020April 22, 2021
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 control RGB LED matrix with an Arduino

Alex ReidJuly 30, 2019April 22, 2021
Developments / Hardware / Tutorials

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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Amazon Echo Show 5 Unboxing

Amazon Echo Show 5 : Setup and Review

Alex ReidJune 27, 2019April 22, 2021
Blog / Smart Home / Tech News

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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Control RGB LED Strips with an Arduino

Control RGB LED Strips with Arduino – The Code

Alex ReidApril 22, 2019April 22, 2021
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, 2019April 22, 2021
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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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

ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

How to install ESPHome on MagicHome LED Controller

ESPHome on Sonoff 4ch Pro

How to install ESPHome on Sonoff 4CH Pro R2