Guides 4 Automations For A Better Smart Home Alarm System! Take your DIY smart home alarm to the next level with multi user support on keypads, a silent panic mode, a panic button & NFC control!
Home Assistant Build Your Own Local Controlled Smart Home Alarm! You can build your own smart home alarm system in Home Assistant using hardware you may have, and an excellent custom component that makes things super easy!
DIY Transform Any Room With These DIY Smart LED Strip Lights! Transform any room in your house with these Smart LED Strip Lights using an SK6812, ESP32 and WLED - allowing you to create your own light show!
Guides Flashing Sonoff SwitchMan M5 with ESPHome 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! Let’s go through and show you step by step how to flash a custom firmware on the Sonoff SwitchMan, such
Guides Face Recognition Just Got Easier - Home Assistant Double Take Guide A few months ago I covered the ultimate NVR install [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bMQg20Iy4k&t=436s] (sorry no article on that, I got a bit…behind on posting!) which covered combining the object detection and recording capabilities of Frigate, with the face recognition of DeepStack to give
Guides 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 the shelf solutions are very nice yet for some reason command an extremely premium price for what they are. Don’
Guides Using ESPHome on Sonoff RF Bridge In a previous article [https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/howto/how-to-make-your-own-dual-purpose-wireless-alarm-system-with-home-assistant-part-1/] , 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 in TV remotes or many home security/alarm devices and sensors. This time we
Guides 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 really got round to it. Just a couple of hours later, I had something functional and working as you can
Guides How to build a WiFi connected Fingerprint Sensor with Home Assistant When I posted some update videos on Reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/gquzmc/quick_update_on_the_fingerprint_sensor_remotely/] and Twitter [https://twitter.com/EverySmartHome] (make sure to follow me there for more updates!) earlier this week about the Fingerprint Sensor update, the reaction was so
Guides Building a temperature sensors for Home Assistant - Wemos D1 Mini with DS18B20 build guide The world has changed a little bit in the past couple of weeks/months depending on where you live with a global pandemic currently on-going, meaning more and more of us are currently spending a lot more time indoors that we would either like or are used to thanks to
Guides How to make your own dual-purpose wireless alarm system with Home Assistant - Part 1 Ever looked at adding an alarm system to your house only to overwhelmed by the plethora of options out there? We get you, it can be very hard to make a choice because once you do, you are often locked into that providers ecosystem with very limited compatibility with other
Guides Wifi Dimmer switch with Tasmota - Tuya Dimmer guide Dimmer switches have been around for a long time, useful for those situations where you just don’t want a bulb to be at 100% brightness all the time. So what about Wifi dimmer switches that we can add to our smart home? First of all there are two very
Guides How to flash custom firmware to a Sonoff Basic Sonoff basics are amazing little devices and are probably the most popular way of making a dumb device smart. They are incredibly simple, versatile and very inexpensive. It has many use cases and it finds its way into many smart homes around the globe. But there is a simple way
Guides Tuya-Convert guide - OTA flashing of smart bulbs and plugs There is an updated version of this Tuya-Convert guide, check it out here [https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/howto/flashing-any-smart-bulb-plug-or-switch-with-tuya-convert/] . In one of the previous posts [https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/howto/how-to-install-esphome-or-tasmota-on-a-cheap-smart-wifi-rgb-bulb/] we looked at how to flash ESPHome/Tasmota onto a Tuya based smart bulb using the soldering method. I
Guides DIY Philips Hue LED Strips - Installing ESPHome on Magic Home RGBW controllers Following on from our last post about installing ESPHome on cheap smart bulbs from Amazon [https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/howto/how-to-install-esphome-or-tasmota-on-a-cheap-smart-wifi-rgb-bulb/] , this time we are going to take cheap RGBW controllers and LED strips and install ESPHome on them to add to our Home Assistant integration, expanding our DIY Philips
Guides How to install ESPHome or Tasmota on a cheap smart wifi RGB bulb Recently I started looking at alternative ways to achieve Philips Hue lighting, without spending the money that Philips Hue commands. Don’t get me wrong, Philips Hue is a great product and works very well, just that it is a very expensive ecosystem to join. After a little digging, I
