Xiaomi Zigbee Devices + Magic Cube Remote

There are a few different ways to communicate wirelessly.  Wifi is the one we use most often in our Smart Homes. But there are also some really useful devices that use Radio Frequency or RF.  So how do you get your RF devices to communicate with your Wifi devices? You grab one of these. The…

As promised. Here’s how you can make even more custom LED effects for other Holidays.   This is the non-programmer’s way to decipher and change the arduino sketch. There are certainly other (and likely better) ways to do it, but this is what I learned and how I did it. If you find other ways…

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…

Crown molding is beautiful. LEDs are beautiful. What if we put them both together! But wait. Crown molding is expensive, and can be hard to install. Maybe there’s a cheaper, simpler way to get the same result.   Crown molding LEDs on a budget.   These are 12v plain white, non-waterproof, 5050 LEDs are about…

At our house, we use Alexa a lot. In fact, we have an Echo Dot in almost every room. Alexa has been great at controlling our smart home devices. But we also listen to a lot of music. Until recently we couldn’t use home assistant to play music through the amazon echo. But now thanks…

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…