Sonoff Mini vs. Shelly1 – Tiny Smart Switch Battle

This video is about my new Robot Vacuum. But it’s not really about the robot vacuum. Confused? It’ll make sense in a couple minutes. Occasionally I get requests to review products. I actually say ‘no thanks’ to most of them. But when someone offered me a robotic vacuum I remembered what my gran-papy used to…

Holiday LED build Christmas lights are fun, but what about other holidays? Wouldn’t it be cool to have pink lights for Valentine’s day, Green lights for St Patrick’s day, Paisleys for Easter, RWB for 4th of July, Lightning for Halloween, and Fall colors for Thanksgiving? Ya, that would be cool! You could probably find a…

Believe it or not, there are other useful devices in the world beside the Sonoff.  I know, I was shocked too. As far as Arduino compatible, wifi devices go, the two most common are probably the D1 mini and the NodeMCU board.  In this video I’ll show you some of the useful things you can…

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…

  Wouldn’t it be great to have a custom UI that would show all your smart home devices laid out on a floorplan of your house. So with just a glance you could see which lights are on, which doors are open, or where there are people moving around?  Of course you’d also want to…

I’ve had a lot of requests for a video about the Sonoff Touch light switch.  Of course I can’t just use it and do a review. I’ve gotta crack it open, flash it with Tasmota, and connect it to Home Assistant.  So that’s what I did.   The Sonoff Touch comes in a US or…