Collaborate Disseminate
[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
It would appear that, sometimes, miracles happen. A few days ago, an update graced the website of Insteon, a company whose abrupt shuttering we covered in detail two months ago. …read more Continue reading Insteon Gets Another Chance
In today’s “predictable things that happened before and definitely will happen again”, Insteon, a smart home company boasting the Insteon ecosystem of devices built around their proprietary communication standards, has …read more Continue reading Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less
We ran an article this week about RS-485, a noise resistant differential serial multidrop bus architecture. (Tell me where else you’re going to read articles like that!) I’ve had my …read more Continue reading The Virtue of Wires in the Age of Wireless
Bending various proprietary devices to our will is a hacker’s rite of passage. When it comes to proprietary wall sockets, we’d often reverse-engineer and emulate their protocol – but you …read more Continue reading Reusing Proprietary Wireless Sockets Without Wireless Hacking
Everyone has their preferred method of making (and consuming) coffee. While modern coffee makers are starting to come standard with IoT and ‘smart’ capabilities, owners of older models should fear …read more Continue reading Add Smarts To Your Old Capsule Coffee Maker
A lot of hackers are rightfully concerned about the privacy issues that surround many of today’s “smart” gadgets, but it’s hard to argue that the ability to remotely control devices …read more Continue reading ESP32 Brings Air Purifier Online with Home Assistant
Anyone who has had a backyard pool will know that it only takes a little lapsed attention to turn the whole thing green. For those sick of having to stay …read more Continue reading Automating Pool Monitoring And Chemical Dosing
Finnish software engineer [Toni] is on a quest to modernize his 1991 house, and his latest project was to automate the window blinds and control them using Home Assistant. Unless …read more Continue reading Automated Window Blinds Using MQTT and Home Assistant
The OLKB-Terminal designed by [Jeff Eberl] doesn’t have a battery, can’t fold up (even if it seems like it could), and is only portable in the sense that you can …read more Continue reading Home Automation Terminal With Cyberpunk Style