2 days ago
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation
15
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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4 days ago
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation
83
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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1 week ago
Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation
33
Smart Shades by Wazombi Labs is a small box that allows motorizing a window blind. Wazombin Labs is a small Estonian service company. It specializes in circuit design, embedded software, development of mobile applications (iOS and Android) and design of interfaces (and animations). Wazombin being its catalog of skills by …
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2 weeks ago
Home Automation, Home Automation Devices, Homebridge
99
To use Arduino-based connected objects or an open source home server on iOS, you had to use the open source Homebridge project that was presented several times. On the occasion of the WWD 2017 (developer conference), Apple announced the opening of the HomeKit protocol which allows to communicate and control …
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2 weeks ago
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation, Orange Pi
234
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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2 weeks ago
Home Automation, Home Automation Devices
145
Frédéric Dubois of the domotic blog faire-ca-soi-meme.fr is launching today in a project of ZigBee universal USB gateway named ZiGate. Frédéric launches his project in the form of a KickStart project. The project already financed at 30% ends on 6 August. This project was born a little by chance trying …
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19 May 2017
Beginner, Difficulty level, Home Automation, Home Automation Devices
252
The Xiaomi Smart Home kit is a widely used DIY home automation system. Xiaomi designs high-quality home automation products at a very reasonable price. In the next tutorials, we will see how to integrate the connected Xiaomi devices on a home automation server (Home Assistant, Domoticz and Jeedom). Whatever your …
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16 May 2017
Beginner, Difficulty level, Home Automation, Home Automation Devices
187
Today I propose you to discover the camera connected panoramic Xiaomi Mijia 1080p capable of filming 360 degrees. Only available in China at the moment, it is however possible to obtain it directly in China for about €80. It runs entirely from the MiHome application available on iOS and Android. …
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28 April 2017
Blynk, Homebridge, IoT - Connected Objects
142
Blynk consists of a server and an application for iOS. If you have your own Blynk private server (follow this article to learn how to do on Raspberry Pi), you can make your connected objects developed using Blynk from the internet without having to expose your material to be interleached …
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21 April 2017
ESP EASY, ESP8266, Home Automation
322
ESP Easy is very easy to flash on Windows using the installation utility contained in the project repository. If you are a Linux user (PC, Raspberry Pi, Orange PI …) or macOS, it will be necessary to use esptool.py already presented in this tutorial. In this tutorial, we will install …
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DIY Projects Home automation, connected objects (IoT) and DIY projects based on Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, mini PC (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi) and 3D printing
