Sonoff has recently released some brand new affordable smart wall switches called the Sonoff SwitchMan M5, featuring an ESP32 inside – and you know what that means right!? ESPHome time! [ … ]
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!
Face Recognition Just Got Easier – Home Assistant Double Take Guide
A few months ago I covered the ultimate NVR install (sorry no article on that, I got a bit…behind on posting!) which covered combining the object detection and recording capabilities [ … ]
Automate your Internet Usage with Home Assistant and Unifi
There are many reasons you may want to be able to automatically control devices on your network; maybe you want to disable your kids devices at a certain time so [ … ]
Monitor Your Smart Homes Energy Usage with Home Assistant!
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]