I finally got a zigbee2mqtt setup running just before Christmas. For those who don’t know, its an opensource project that has created a universal Zigbee gateway that can connect to a huge number of devices, its also very easy to get it to support new devices aswell. Zigbee is a low-power mesh network system designed for …
WiFi Presence Detection using Ubiquiti Unifi controller
Introduction Presence detection is a useful functionality to implement on your HA system. Not only is it useful to know when certain family members are in or out of the house, it allows you to trigger functions based on this data. There are couple of options for implementing presence detection, these include BLE Tags, PIR …
Setup of Milight Gateway on NodeMCU
Having discussed Milight and Chris Mullins NodeMCU Milight Gateway in a prevous article, I thought it might be nice to create a little walkthrough of what’s involved in getting this up and running and connected to Domoticz. Part 1 – Setting up the NodeMCU Hardware and Software First the hardware NodeMCU (or compatible ESP8266 module), …
Milight Gateway
I’ve been interested in the Milight LED lighting system for sometime now. Its a chinese based system that also goes under another couple of names (limitless LED and Easy Bulb). Its cheap and offers a huge range of devices from white and RGB bulbs of various kinds to LED strip controllers, and a myriad of …
433mhz Automated Christmas Tree Lights
Its that time of year again, decking the halls, hanging the stockings, and the hassle of having to stick your arm behind the Christmas tree to turn the damn lights on and off! First world problems… Time for some 433mhz magic! Something I’ve been wanting to do for a few years and that I’ve never …