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Firmware Vulnerability Found in Bosch Thermostat Model BCC100: Patch Now or Freeze.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers can hijack your Bosch Thermostat and Install Malware
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While we might all be quick to grab a microcontroller and an appropriate sensor to solve some problem, gather data about a system, or control another piece of technology, there …read more Continue reading MOSFET Heater Is Its Own Thermostat
Thanks to Home Assistant, automating the various systems that run your home is easier than ever. But you still need to make a connection between those systems and your Home …read more Continue reading Custom Thermostat PCB Connects Boiler to Home Assistant
Some sweltering residents of Texas are reporting that they are unable to lower the temperature on their Wi-Fi enabled “smart” thermostats after it was mysteriously raised, and they are struggling to understand why.
Read more in my article on the Bit… Continue reading Smart thermostats cranked up remotely by Texas energy firms, as consumers swelter in heat wave
Measuring temperature turns out to be a fundamental function for a huge number of devices. You furnace’s programmable thermostat and digital clocks are obvious examples. If you just needed to know if a certain temperature is exceeded, you could use …read more
Continue reading Practical Sensors: The Many Ways We Measure Heat Electronically
[Nathan Petersen] built a Hackable Open-Source Thermostat to smooth out temperature fluctuations caused by the large hysteresis of the bimetallic strip thermostat in his apartment. While it may be tempting to adjust the “anticipator” to take care of the problem …read more
Continue reading Open-Source Thermostat Won’t Anger Your Landlord
A smart thermostat is nothing new. But making one built a decade or more ago takes a few tricks. If you want to upgrade your thermostat without replacing it, [geektechniquestudios] shares their solution using a Raspberry Pi Zero to smarten up that dumb controller.
The hardware is decidedly simple: just …read more
Fair warning: any homeowners who have thermostats similar to the one that nearly burned down [Kerry Wong]’s house might be in store for a sleepless night or two, at least until they inspect and perhaps replace any units that are even remotely as sketchy as what he found when he …read more
Continue reading Fail of the Week: Thermostat Almost Causes a House Fire
When your thermostat comes with Linux running on it, that’s not a hack. When it doesn’t, and you get Linux on there yourself, it most definitely is. This is exactly what [cz7asm] has done. In a recent video, he shows the Honeywell thermostat booting Linux and running a wide range …read more
Underfloor heating is a wonderfully luxurious touch for a bedroom and en-suite bathroom, and [Andy] had it fitted so that he could experience the joy of walking on a toasty-warm floor in the morning. Unfortunately after about a year it stopped working and the culprit proved to be its thermostat. …read more