Introduction: A while back I wrote up how I put three Nedis WIFIDS10WT smoke detectors onto Tasmota, ran them off a permanent supply instead of batteries, and pulled fire/test/mute/battery into Home Assistant over MQTT (the blakadder template does the heavy lifting). That got the hardware smart and talking – but living with it for a […]
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Introduction: Some projects nag at you for years. This is one of them. About three years ago I transplanted an ESP32 into the cheap-and-cheerful dehumidifier that keeps our conservatory habitable, wired a relay across its ON/OFF button, and called it “smart”. The trouble was it could press the button but it never really knew whether
1. Introduction: A little while ago my smoke detector started to randomly wake me up with unexplainable alerts so I decided that it’s time for a new one. The hunt for a model that would be available in the UK for under £50, without the need for a third party cloud and the ability to
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