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Cheap Wifi MQTT Controlled LED strip using Tasmota and Home Assistant

Daniel MasonDecember 6, 2022March 30, 2023

by Daniel MasonDecember 6, 2022March 30, 202301060

When it comes to LED strips the market is flooded with expensive premium brands such as LIFX. This post offers a cheap alternative that is not only affordable but also works offline and integrates well...

How to use Tuya Convert to flash Tasmota to off-the-shelf smart home devices

Daniel MasonNovember 28, 2021March 5, 2023

by Daniel MasonNovember 28, 2021March 5, 202302933

Flashing Tasmota used to involve the arduous process of soldering fine wires to microscopic contact pads and using a USB to serial programmer board. With the advent of a growing home automation community and the...

Editor's picks Home Assistant Integrations

RF 433 MHz and BLE with OpenMQTTGateway and ESP8266 – Cheap Home Automation on a budget

Daniel MasonDecember 18, 2020March 30, 2023

by Daniel MasonDecember 18, 2020March 30, 202302912

Adding an RF gateway to your Home Assistant setup makes your setup incredibly versatile because it opens up a multitude of low-cost automation opportunities. This project enables you to interface your Home Assistant setup with...

Hardware

Animated LED Coffee Table with ESP8266

Daniel MasonMay 30, 2020March 28, 2023

by Daniel MasonMay 30, 2020March 28, 20230740

LED strips are cool. And addressable ones are even cooler. They look great as a lighting feature and we can actually integrate them into our home automation system as well! We can use LED strip...

Arduino & Micro Controllers

How to create an Eclipse/Sloeber IDE project template

Daniel MasonJanuary 31, 2019June 5, 2020

by Daniel MasonJanuary 31, 2019June 5, 202001739

Setting up Eclipse projects for tasks such as unit testing and hardware debugging is very time consuming due to the fact there are a million different possible ways to configure a project. Online tutorials get...

Arduino & Micro Controllers

Sloeber Arduino IDE ESP8266 SPI.h No such file or directory Error Fix

Daniel MasonJanuary 19, 2019November 9, 2020

by Daniel MasonJanuary 19, 2019November 9, 202002882

How to fix an annoying build error for ESP8266 builds....

Firmwares

Automating ESP8266 Firmware Deployments

Daniel MasonSeptember 28, 2018November 10, 2020

by Daniel MasonSeptember 28, 2018November 10, 202002207

Not too long ago I wrote about ESPHomeYAML -- a YAML based firmware generator for microcontrollers. What if I told you that you can use this tool to automatically update your entire fleet of ESP8266-based...

Arduino & Micro Controllers

Spotify Button Build

Daniel MasonMarch 5, 2018November 10, 2020

by Daniel MasonMarch 5, 2018November 10, 202001089

This post shows the completed Banger Button project build....

Firmwares Hardware

Spotify Button

Daniel MasonJanuary 4, 2018November 10, 2020

by Daniel MasonJanuary 4, 2018November 10, 202001655

Wouldn't if be great if all you had to do to add a song to your Spotify is smack a big red buzzer button when you hear a song you like? The currently playing song...

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Cheap Wifi MQTT Controlled LED strip using Tasmota and Home Assistant

How to use Tuya Convert to flash Tasmota to off-the-shelf smart home devices

RF 433 MHz and BLE with OpenMQTTGateway and ESP8266 – Cheap Home Automation on a budget

Animated LED Coffee Table with ESP8266

How to create an Eclipse/Sloeber IDE project template

Sloeber Arduino IDE ESP8266 SPI.h No such file or directory Error Fix

Automating ESP8266 Firmware Deployments

Spotify Button Build

Spotify Button

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