Tag: home automation
![#Home Assistant: DIY Smart Home - tips and tricks (SSL, HAProxy & Let's Encrypt)]( "#Home Assistant: DIY Smart Home - tips and tricks (SSL, HAProxy & Let's Encrypt)")
16
Jan - 2022Home Automation, Raspberry Pi
12 min | 130448#Home Assistant: DIY Smart Home - tips and tricks (SSL, HAProxy & Let's Encrypt)
Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 12 min | 130448
In the last years, I wrote several articles about Home Assistant (HA) and the possibility to replace the Zigbee hubs from different companies in your home using Zigbee2MQTT. Some of those articles are listed here (don't visit the links, they are outdated):
![#CC2531 & Raspberry Pi: Philips HUE bridge v1 replacement]( "#CC2531 & Raspberry Pi: Philips HUE bridge v1 replacement")
23
Mar - 2020Home Automation, Raspberry Pi
2 min | 7045#CC2531 & Raspberry Pi: Philips HUE bridge v1 replacement
Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 2 min | 7045
As you may know, the Philips Hue Bridge v1 has support until April 30, 2020. This means, after April 30, 2020, no software updates will be made available and it will not connect to the online services. However, you can still control it locally via the "dedicated Philips Hue Bridge v1 app". Nevertheless, you have a device (connected to your network) that can be a "treasure" for hackers (MITM-Attacks), and the "dedicated Philips Hue Bridge v1 app" will disappear shortly! (...
![#Raspberry Pi: Controlling Philips HUE Lights (ZigBee & CC2531)]( "#Raspberry Pi: Controlling Philips HUE Lights (ZigBee & CC2531)")
04
Dec - 2019Home Automation, Raspberry Pi
6 min | 32677#Raspberry Pi: Controlling Philips HUE Lights (ZigBee & CC2531)
Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 6 min | 32677
This article extends the tutorial about Hass.io and the Xiaomi Aqara Sensors that I've published months ago. That tutorial is part of the series of articles about Zigbee and the Rasbperry Pi using the CC2531 USB dongle. Here are the links:
![#Zigbee: Reading Xiaomi Sensors with a Raspberry Pi (no Xiaomi gateway needed!)]( "#Zigbee: Reading Xiaomi Sensors with a Raspberry Pi (no Xiaomi gateway needed!)")
09
Jul - 2019Home Automation, Product Reviews, Raspberry Pi
2 min | 22169#Zigbee: Reading Xiaomi Sensors with a Raspberry Pi (no Xiaomi gateway needed!)
Home Automation, Product Reviews, Raspberry Pi | 2 min | 22169
I've been very busy the last weeks. I moved to a new apartment and I was living between moving boxes. Four days ago, I managed to put my desk together and now I have some time (not a lot) to write a new article.
Last month I've received from GearBest two Aqara sensors:
- Aqara Cube - internal motion sensors (gyro + accelerometers)
- Aqara humidity, temperature and air pressure
These sensors use Zigbee and I connected them to a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian OS and a dockerized version o...
![#Raspberry Pi: Xiaomi Sensors & Home Assistant (Hass.io)]( "#Raspberry Pi: Xiaomi Sensors & Home Assistant (Hass.io)")
13
Apr - 2019Home Automation, Raspberry Pi
5 min | 26362#Raspberry Pi: Xiaomi Sensors & Home Assistant (Hass.io)
Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 5 min | 26362
Last week, I published an article about using Xiaomi sensors without a Xiaomi Gateway. The gateway/hub can be replaced with a Raspberry Pi and a USB-ZigBee dongle. You find the instructions here: #ZigBee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!).
As you can read in that article, two repositories are available to connect and process the data from the Xiaomi sensors. Additionally, Zigbee2mqtt can be connected to Hass.io. Well, I didn't want to use HassOS (the OS on which hass.io runs), but I wanted to use Hass.io running on Raspbian, otherwise with Home Assistant running as an appli...
![#Zigbee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!)]( "#Zigbee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!)")
06
Apr - 2019Home Automation, Raspberry Pi
6 min | 108548#Zigbee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!)
Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 6 min | 108548
This tutorial allows you to connect Xiaomi (or Aqara) sensors (e.g. door, pir, temperature, water, switch) to a Raspberry Pi or similar system without using any Xiaomi Gateway.
This is what I will try to accomplish in this tutorial:
- Flash the USB-Zigbee Dongle with the correct FW
- Install a broker to connect to the sensors
- Configure the sensors using the...
![#MicroPython: Home Automation using Blynk connected to a WiPy 3.0 / 2.0]( "#MicroPython: Home Automation using Blynk connected to a WiPy 3.0 / 2.0")
05
Feb - 2019Home Automation, MicroPython
2 min | 9890#MicroPython: Home Automation using Blynk connected to a WiPy 3.0 / 2.0
Home Automation, MicroPython | 2 min | 9890
This time a quick tutorial to control your WiPy 3.0 / 2.0 or an ESP32 using Blynk.
Blynk is the most popular mobile app for the IOT. Works with anything: ESP8266, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, SparkFun and others.
I found a library to connect MicroPython to Blynk but it is only compatible with the WiPy 1.0. Thus, I modified it and made it compatible with the WiPy 3.0 / 2.0 and with the ESP32 running MicroPython. If you do not have any idea about MicroPython, I rec...
![#MicroPython: Controlling Smart Power Outlets using an ESP32]( "#MicroPython: Controlling Smart Power Outlets using an ESP32")
22
Oct - 2018Home Automation, MicroPython
5 min | 23883#MicroPython: Controlling Smart Power Outlets using an ESP32
Home Automation, MicroPython | 5 min | 23883
Today there is a wide range of offer for home automation devices. A lot of sensors, actors etc. can be connected to the cloud and be controlled using Google Home, Amazon Alexa, your smartphone, etc. There are a lot of companies offering low cost devices, e.g. Sonoff, Tuya, Teckin etc. Most of these solutions are based on ESP32 or ESP8266, and all of them send data to cloud solutions usually deployed on Amazon services, and the data is only accessible using the Androi...
![#Zerynth: ESP32 & Google IoT Core - Part 1: Sending data to the Cloud]( "#Zerynth: ESP32 & Google IoT Core - Part 1: Sending data to the Cloud")
17
Sep - 2018Cloud Platforms, MicroPython
7 min | 19222#Zerynth: ESP32 & Google IoT Core - Part 1: Sending data to the Cloud
Cloud Platforms, MicroPython | 7 min | 19222
There are lot of tutorials about connecting the ESP32 to a cloud service, but I planned to connect these boards using MicroPython directly to the cloud. That means, I didn't want to use a hardware or software bridge. I wanted to use the Google IoT Core, but MicroPython doesn't support JSON Web Token (JWT), which is needed for the device authentication. I tried to write the library myself, but it didn't work, because of the needed dependencies and the small mem...
![#MicroPython: WeMos (ESP32) and Amazon Echo (Alexa) - Switching LED Colors!]( "#MicroPython: WeMos (ESP32) and Amazon Echo (Alexa) - Switching LED Colors!")
28
Oct - 2017Home Automation, MicroPython
7 min | 16047#MicroPython: WeMos (ESP32) and Amazon Echo (Alexa) - Switching LED Colors!
Home Automation, MicroPython | 7 min | 16047
I don’t have any Belkin WeMo system or Philips Hue light bulbs. However, I have two ESP32 running MicroPython (see my last article), and a W2812b LED strip, and I thought I should be able to say, "Echo/Alexa, turn on the kitchen light" or "Echo/Alexa, turn on the blue light" and It should work with this setup.
And... it works as you can see in this video!
If you are interesting in only using the code, then click here. Otherwise, you can read the complete story... ;)
![Python]()
We use cookies to improve our services. Read more about how we use cookies and how you can refuse them.
