Home Automation III – The atmospheric bed light
Put to the test – The self-developed node in your own home automation In the first part of the series, you have laid the foundations to be able to implement a home automation system yourself. The second part serves as an introduction to a possible framework to integrate your own sensors and actuators in this […]
Home Automation II – Programming your own devices with ESPHome
Die Qual der Wahl – welche Firmware für die eigenen Nodes? IoT-Geräte sind seit nun schon einigen Jahren in aller Munde. In der DIY-Szene angekommen sind sie aber spätestens mit dem Aufkommen der ESP8266, des ESP32 und der guten Integration in das Arduino-Ökosystem. Nun kann man mit einfachsten Mitteln seine Geräte internettauglich machen. Mittlerweile gibt […]
Home Automation I – Getting started with the Home Assistant software
Just another smart home standard? The last years have been very eventful for home automation. Everyone is talking about IoT and many manufacturers offer solutions for it. After the initial enthusiasm, however, disillusionment usually follows: there are an infinite number of standards and solutions, many are managed in a cloud and often products become useless […]
Building an IoT key safe box
“The measuring instrument is in the drawer of my colleague, but he is ill – we can’t reach it today” (drawer locked) or “Then I have to bring you the key to the second room in the holiday home tomorrow” are two sentences that initiated the project presented here. In our daily world, simple keys, […]
