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Connected objects developed using the MySensors library are very well supported by Home Assistant. In this tutorial, we will see how to integrate MySensors projects developed using version 2.x of the library. You can connect directly to a MySensors Gateway or an MQTT gateway. We will see how to do …

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The Xiaomi Smart Home kit is very well supported by the Open Source Home Assistant home automation server. This very economical kit is very well adapted to begin in home automation. In this tutorial, we will configure step by step the main devices of the kit: gateway, temperature and humidity …

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Armbian version 5.27 introduces a configuration tool called armbian-config. This is almost the equivalent of raspi-config on Raspbian. Armbian can run on mini PCs with very different designs (Allwinner, freescale, actionsemi), the tool does not support the configuration of hardware devices (camera, GPIO, I2C …). What can be configured with …

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to use a 0.96-inch monochrome OLED display with 128 x 64 pixels driven by an I2C SSD1306 microcontroller. You can find this screen at Adafruit or Sparkfun to locate only these two manufacturers but also many Asian clones if you are not in …

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Home Assistant is a home automation server fully developed in the Python language, so it is possible to install it on an Orange Pi. For this tutorial, I used an Orange Pi+ 2e equipped with 16GB of memory eMMC working Armbian. Home Assistant has evolved a lot in one year. …

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The Homie library has become very popular for the rapid development of ESP8266-based connected objects that communicate through MQTT messages. This library (GitHub page) is developed and maintained by Marvin Roger (personal page). Homie is a library that supports Wi-Fi network connection, authentication to an MQTT server and even wireless …

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PlatformIO IDE is a development environment that can replace the traditional Arduino IDE. PlatformIO supports more than 400 development cards for the main microcontrollers (Atmel AVR, Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32, STMicro STM32, Teensy …). It is not a simple code editor, it is a true development platform that targets the …

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For this new project, I propose to recycle a remote-controlled car by replacing the radio receiver by an ESP8266. The engines will be controlled using a shield Motor for Wemos d1 mini presented in this article. You definitely have an old remote-controlled car that hangs at home. The remote control …

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In the previous tutorial, we discovered the Johnny-Five framework that allows to create connected objects (and more) based on Arduino, Raspberry Pi (or Orange Pi) in Javascript. Johnny-Five is also a very good solution to replace the GPIO of an Orange Pi by an Arduino Nano v3. In the previous …

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Today I present a tutorial that was proposed to me by Bernard, a reader of DIY Projects. In this tutorial, Bernard explains how he hacked the ESP8266 from a connected SONOFF S20 plug. SONOFF specializes in the manufacture of power supply (Wi-Fi controlled plug, power supply …), relay card, etc. …

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