Upgrade your router firmware to ‘FreshTomato’
The Netgear Nighthawk r7000 is a router, switch and powerful Wi-fi access point in one unit and even in 2021, years on from when it was made it still offers your network a boost...
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access your Home Assistant remotely using DuckDNS, Letsencrypt and the nginx SSL proxy
The Home Assistant home automation hub is more useful if you can access it remotely. There’s an excellent phone app to access Home Assistant in addition to anywhere access with a browser URL. A...
use nginx proxy manager with home assistant to access multiple network devices
I rarely say ‘OMG ‘ but as I need to access Home Assistant remotely from phone, ‘OMG’ describes the procedure to set up nginx. So warned you may prefer the easier set up here:...
make use of smart device apps even if you use home assistant or any other automation platform
Your smart bulbs, switches and door bell all come with a useful manufacturer’s app – over time you’ll accumulate many such apps. While Home Assistant might make them redundant, here are couple of tips...
what home automation offers – introduction
When you look for home automation equipment you find many systems. They turn on lights and plug sockets; water the garden; unlock a door, turn up the heating; record a security camera, open the...
a case for a home automation platform – introduction
Even if you’ve no need for as much as a smart bulb, you do need to be impressed or surprised by the variety of smart gadgets on sale. There are smart door locks, garage...
find the IP address of your things – introduction
When you set up a gadget or device you’ll sometimes be asked what its IP address is – and gosh – becoming at ease with that question is good for you. Every gadget connected...
extending Home Assistant (esphome 2)
If you want to make your own smart measuring device or presence detector or dog watching camera or tea bag lifting robot, the ESP32 and Arduino circuit boards make the gadget you need. A...
start using home assistant (esphome 1)
what you need to run your own home automation server Raspberry Pi – a kit with Raspberry Pi 3+ or later with the recommended power supply, 32Gb SD card, heatsinks and/or cooling fan. A...
customise a Sonoff smart relay (esphome 3b)
‘own’ your own devices THE PROCESS BELOW IS STILL USEFUL – HOWEVER SINCE I WROTE THIS MOST SONOFF DEVICES WORK NATIVELY IN HOME ASSISTANT – SEE HERE ESPhome can be used to reprogram a...
Dupont jumper wires & shells – introduction
Dupont leads connect up projects. They come as male to male pin / female to female / male pin to female types. You can solder the male ends to a headless board to make...
which ESP32 did I buy?
“… It’s an ESP32. Yes but which?” ESPRESSIF is the company that markets chips such as the ESP8266 and ESP32 and ESP32-CAM. Other companies buy those chips and fit them inside their smart plugs,...
