Recently, Apollo Automation reached out to us with an exciting opportunity to test some of their products. They generously provided the MSR-2, MTR-1, and AIR-1, along with several accessories. The Apollo Automation MSR-2, a mmWave Multisensor for Home Assistant, is an advanced iteration of the...
After evaluating Sonocotta’s ‘Louder ESP32‘, the company kindly sent us their ‘Louder Esparagus’ to check out. This gadget is basically a feature-packed, boxed variant of the Louder ESP32. With it’s highly capable TAS5805M DAC, the Louder Esparagus aims to sync seamlessly with mid- to large-scale...
While scouring the internet in search of an ESP32 amplifier capable of running ESPHome firmware, I discovered the Louder ESP32. This neat unit comprises an external I2S DAC, perfectly able to drive full-sized speakers, and a PSRAM chip. This pairing furnishes the compact ESP32 module...
Introduction In the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden Residential Smart Electricity Meters comply to DSMR (Dutch Smart Meter Requirements), also known as ‘Smart Meter’ or ‘P1 port’ which supports plain non encrypted telegrams and also encrypted telegrams as used in Luxembourg. This hardware sends the...
Preface About 10 months ago Sonoff send us the and thereafter we published our first impressions. The product was not entirely new and innovative, as there where Nextion Touch displays and 2-gang wall switches readily available, but the NSpanel combines both in a nice package...
In this article we cover the Athom Mini Relay switch, a fairly small Relay switch for use behind your existing wall switch. These kind of switches are sold by manny companies, mainly based on Tuya firmware for use in a Chinese cloud, which we are...
The ET-AL01 Analog LED Controller The process of designing a circuit starts with an idea. Sometimes the idea is based on a question of someone else, and sometimes it is just seeing the need or fun of something 🙂 . For a design there are...
Introduction Michel asked me to design an analog LED controller with 5 channels, since he wanted to be able to control a nice LED strip with an RGB LED and a warm white and cool white LED (Like Philips Hue). When searching the internet he could...
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