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If you want smart light switches in your house, you can buy from any one of hundreds of manufacturers. [Brian Boyle] had kitted out his home with TP Link devices, …read more Continue reading When Your Smart Light Switches Stop Working, Build Your Own
In the last few decades, building engineers and architects have made tremendous strides in improving the efficiency of various buildings and the devices that keep them safe and comfortable to …read more Continue reading Smart Occupancy Sensor Knows All
In an ideal smart home, the explosion of cheap WiFi and Bluetooth chips has allowed hundreds of small wireless devices to control the switches, lights, and everything else required for …read more Continue reading A Smart Home That CAN Do It All
If you have an RTL-SDR compatible radio there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard of the rtl_433 project, which lets you receive and decode signals from an ever-expanding list of supported …read more Continue reading Arduino Library Brings rtl_433 to the ESP32
Do you need a cheap, small computer for a low power computing project? Historically, of us would reach straight for a Raspberry Pi, even if we didn’t absolutely need the …read more Continue reading When Pi Supply Falls Short, Thin Clients Stand Tall for Home Automation and Low Power Computing
Home automation systems are all well and good, so long as the person who built it all is around to drive it. Let’s face it, they’re quite often a complex …read more Continue reading Trigger Your Home Automation Routines With Home Buttons
While you’d be hard pressed to find a Hackaday writer that feels any nostalgia for the DRM nonsense the iPod helped to introduce, we’ve got to admit that we miss …read more Continue reading Scroll Through ESPHome With iPod-style Click Wheel
Many of us hacker types with some hardware knowledge and a smattering of embedded experience would like to get into home automation, but there can be quite a learning curve. …read more Continue reading This Pico-W IoT Starter Project Gets You Into Home Assistant Quick As A Flash
Have you ever found that, despite having a central heating and air conditioning system, that not all the rooms in your home end up being the temperature you want them …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Smart Vents Keep Tabs On Home Temps
[Renzo Mischianti]’s friend has to keep a water tank topped up. Problem is, the tank itself is 1.5 km away, so its water level isn’t typically known. There’s no electricity …read more Continue reading LoRa Helps With Remote Water Tank Level Sensing