Sonoff Mini vs. Shelly1 – Tiny Smart Switch Battle

After the fantastic reception that my magnetic door locks video got, I got a lot of questions about doing a RFID Card Reader video. I did it. 🙂 Today we are going to use the arduino sketch esp-rfid. Go to the repository and download the Zip file. Open it up and find the bin folder….

One of the first things I actually automated in my Home, was the garage door.  Making your garage door “smart” makes a lot of sense because there are some useful things you can do with it.   To Smarten up your garage doors you’ll need: Sonoff SV https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-sv.html Reed Switch http://a.co/6qMTS35 USB cord and wall…

Besides just showing off the awesome stuff you can do with home automation, we’re using the Maker Faire display to demonstrate a few different situations that have come up in questions and comments on previous videos. First, let’s look at a light switch wiring situation from my first “sonoff-as-a-light-switch” video. When I was explaining different…

This is a follow up to “Using Sonoff as a Light Switch” Leave it connected. Go to your Router and find the new device with “sonoff” in the name. Get its IP address and put it in the browser. If everything worked you should see the control page for the sonoff. Under Configuration Change GPIO…

Watch the Video here As soon as I saw an example of someone’s HA Dashboard I was smitten.  I knew I had to have it! Unfortunately, when I started looking into how to set it up I was very intimidated and kept putting it off. Well, now with Hass.io, and a great Add-on maintained by…