DIY Projects Home automation, connected objects (IoT) and DIY projects based on Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, mini PC (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi) and 3D printing

Itead, the Chinese manufacturer of SONOFF marketed the SONOFF 4CH Pro, an improved version of 4CH. You are most likely familiar with the power supplies and the connected SONOFF module. In the previous article we saw how to install the ESP Easy firmware to the connected SONOFF S20. Itead proposes …

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Recycling an old Windows PC is a great solution for hosting a home automation server, creating a Linux development environment for Arduino / ESP8266, or a multimedia server. In most cases, an old PC based Intel Atom or i3 processor will have more power than a Raspberry Pi 3 or …

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Wemos proposes a new version Lite of the LoLin32 based on a module ESP-WROOM-32 corrected. This new module identified ESP32-DOWD6Q 28017 (Rev 1) brings some bug fixes from Espressif SoC. This SoC is always equipped with 4MB of flash memory and brings 801.11 b/g/n WiFi connectivity and Bluetooth LE for …

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The ArduinoOTA library for wireless updates (OTA) in Wi-Fi is also compatible with ESP32266, the ESP32266’s more powerful successor. It is integrated into the Arduino Core for ESP32 developed by Espressif (GitHub page of the project). It is not yet possible to install the development kit from the card manager. …

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The ArduinoOTA library is a library that allows to update the Arduino program (and ESP3226, ESP32) wirelessly in Wi-Fi. It is an essential library when developing connected objects. It allows to update the program without having to disassemble the microcontroller (Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32) to connect it to his computer. This …

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Home Assistant integrates natively the support of radio home appliances compatible with the Open Source RFLink gateway. In the previous tutorial, we saw how to include connected objects developed using the MySensors v2 library. The inclusion of radio devices using the RFLink gateway is a bit different. The technical documentation …

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The i2c bus is used to exchange digital data between a sensor (or an actuator) and a mini-PC such as Raspberry Pi. The i2c bus is also widely used on microcontrollers (Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32). By default, the i2c bus is not enabled on the Raspbian distribution. We will activate it …

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The Raspberry Pi Zero W comes with a GPIO connector to be soldered on the PCB itself. This is a step that can be frightening when you start. In this tutorial we will learn which hardware to use and how to weld the connector properly and safely for the Pi …

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Since switching to version 3 of Jeedom, the image of the SD card of the home automation server is no longer available for download. Jeedom now installs on any Linux distribution based on Debian 8 using a script (like Domoticz for that matter). It will be possible to create a …

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In the introductory article to the PlatformIO IDE, we installed PIO with the Open Source text editor of GitHub Atom. Like many projects, Atom is no longer available for older Intel x86 32-bit processors. If you want to recycle an old PC into a development platform under Linux (Ubuntu for …

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