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! [ … ]
Tag: esphome
Projects involving esphome
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Tuya-Convert guide – OTA flashing of smart bulbs and plugs
There is an updated version of this Tuya-Convert guide, check it out here. In one of the previous posts we looked at how to flash ESPHome/Tasmota onto a Tuya based [ … ]
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, this time we are going to take cheap RGBW controllers and LED strips and install [ … ]
How to install ESPHome or Tasmota on a cheap smart wifi RGB bulb
With literally hundreds of smart bulbs out there on the market, I show you how to install ESPHome on them for full Home Assistant integration.