More about Home Automation (85)

| In a previous article, I presented the open-source home automation projects ESPHome and Home Assistant. I also explained how to install them...

| Want to equip your home or office with remote-controlled lamps or shutters? Home automation is easy when Home Assistant, ESPHome and MySenso...

| Home automation is easy when open-source projects Home Assistant, ESPHome and MySensors are combined into one powerful system.

| An Information display system installed at home can show live weather forecast, the latest news, departure times of local light rail service...

| In the March-April 2020 edition of Elektor Magazine a remote-controlled switch was published. It communicated using LoRa and provided feedba...

| Node-RED is popular with makers interested in IoT projects and home automation. The web-based, open-source system makes it easy to graphical...

| Wi-Fi is great for quickly connecting devices to a network, but it is a bit power-hungry and therefore not the best solution for low-power s...

| This week’s project posted at Elektor Labs tries to fulfil two objectives: 1. Being useful as an automatic sprinkler system to water plants...

| Low-power sensors can use a MySensors network to integrate smoothly into Home Assistant. Here is how.

| Many of us have at least bought one of those cheap remote-controllable 433-MHz ISM band power plug kits available for little money from gadg...