From P1 Port to Home Assistant in 4 Hours: Reading a Belgian Smart Meter with ESP32
From P1 Port to Home Assistant in 4 Hours: Reading a Belgian Smart Meter with ESP32 I wanted one simple thing: get the actual data from my Belgian d…
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An Alarm Dashboard + Tecnoalarm Keypad in Home Assistant
Crossposted from my blog, where the rest of the Home Assistant series lives. The most interesting decision in this project was what not to put on sc…
Domux: a compact open model for smart-home command understanding at the edge
Voice and chat assistants for the home share a deceptively hard job: turning messy natural language into precise, structured commands. “Make it cozy…
Thread Claims Interoperability. Your Network Has Three Meshes.
I was debugging a Home Assistant Thread configuration when I ran dns-sd -B _meshcop._udp . and counted the results. Every ecosystem claims Thread. M…
PoE Lighting: Why LED Drivers Are Becoming IT Devices When Ethernet Cables Replace Power Wires
A Real-World Scenario: Why Office Buildings Are Lighting Up with Network Cables In August 2026, a new Grade-A office tower in Shenzhen faced a count…
Tapo H100: Cellar Humidity Monitoring in Home Assistant
Cellars sweat. On a warm humid day the air you let in is warmer than the cold concrete, and the moment it touches a cold surface it gives up its wat…
Shelly in Home Assistant: Local Switching & Energy Metering
I didn't put Shelly Plus 1PM and 2PM behind my wall switches for the app or the cloud. I put them there because each one quietly does two jobs at on…
DIY Smart home project: Restoring the wall switch
Background In a previous post , I wrote about building a presence sensor to automatically turn my bedroom lights on and off (smart bulbs connected t…
Matter Zigbee Thread Device Migration
Matter, Zigbee & Thread Device Migration – What Your Smart Home Needs Right Now Hey folks, Nick Creighton here – the voice you just heard on the…
Voice Assistant Smart Home Routines 2025
Voice Assistant Smart Home Routines 2025 Hey there, it’s Nick Creighton from SmartHome Wizardry . If you’ve ever rolled out of bed, squinted at a bl…
Zigbee Smart Lights Keep Disconnecting? Here's Your Complete Troubleshooting Guide
Zigbee Smart Lights Keep Disconnecting? Here's Your Complete Troubleshooting Guide After three years manufacturing Zigbee lighting products, I've se…
ESP32-C5: The Wi-Fi 6 Microcontroller Built for Modern Smart Homes
ESP32-C5: The Wi-Fi 6 Microcontroller Built for Modern Smart Homes 🔌 The maker community has long loved the ESP32 for IoT projects, but with the ris…
ESP32-S3 กับ TinyML: สร้างระบบรักษาความปลอดภัยบ้านอัจฉริยะด้วย Edge AI ตรวจจับความผิดปกติแบบ Real-time
🔐 ทำไมต้อง Edge AI สำหรับบ้าน? ปี 2026 นี่เราต้องการระบบ security ที่ไม่ต้องพึ่ง cloud ตลอดเวลา ถ้าอินเทอร์เน็ตล่มแล้วระบบตั้งรับไม่ได้ ก็จบ ยิ่งตอน…
ESP32-S3 + TinyML: Build a Real-Time Edge AI Home Security System That Runs Without the Cloud
🔐 Why Edge AI for Home Security? In 2026, we need security systems that don't rely on cloud 24/7. If your internet goes down, your cloud-based camer…