Home Assistant just dropped a big new feature that is going to massively improve the way you monitor your smart homes energy usage, with a powerful new way to track [ … ]
Category: How To Guides
In depth and detailed how to guides on everything Home Automation and Security to Arduino and Raspberry Pi’s. Check out all the how to guides and projects we have worked on as we take you step by step from start to finish through the whole process of building your dream home automation setup!
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi 4 – Top 5 Tips
So you’re thinking about picking up a Raspberry Pi but aren’t quite sure where to start with everything else that goes with it? Today I’ll give you my 5 best [ … ]
Building a Raspberry Pi Thermal Imaging Camera – MLX90640 guide
In today’s current global situation, thermometers and thermal cameras are more in demands probably than ever before. Here in the UK, many of the shops and restaurants have started taking [ … ]
DIY Motorised Smart Blinds
Building your own motorised smart blinds is a really attractive idea and something I’ve been meaning to get to for quite some time – after all, some of the off [ … ]
Using ESPHome on Sonoff RF Bridge
In a previous article, I showed you how to flash Tasmota to a Sonoff RF Bridge, which allows you to receive and transmit 433MHz RF signals like the ones used [ … ]
Converting the 28BYJ-48 stepper motor for more torque!
A couple of days ago I decided to strip apart my blinds and figure out how to automate them, its something I wanted to do for a while but never [ … ]
Flashing any Smart bulb, plug or switch with Tuya-Convert
I wrote last year about over the air flashing of smart bulbs using the Tuya-convert procedure. However, back then there was no current way to bypass a firmware that Tuya [ … ]
Setup a PIA VPN with pfSense 2.4.5
Many of us use a VPN in one way or another these days, they have seen a surge in popularity over the last decade or so with many people seeking [ … ]
How to build a WiFi connected Fingerprint Sensor with Home Assistant
When I posted some update videos on Reddit and Twitter (make sure to follow me there for more updates!) earlier this week about the Fingerprint Sensor update, the reaction was [ … ]
Installing ESP8266 into Arduino IDE
This is a quick (and I mean quick!) and easy guide on installing ESP8266 boards into Arduino IDE which allows you to program all of your ESP8266 and ESP32 boards [ … ]